[AISWorld] BISE Special Issue on DECISION ANALYTICS

[Martin Bichler]

Dear colleagues,

we would like to draw your attention to a call for papers for the Business
& Information Systems (BISE) special issue on "DECISION ANALYTICS”, which
can be found below. BISE (the International Journal of
WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK) has been a leading IS journal for more than 50
years, and it is an affiliated journal of the Association for Information
Systems (AIS).

We cordially invite original research contributions for this special issue
until July 1, 2013.

Kind regards,

Martin Bichler

Editor-in-Chief BISE

http://www.bise-journal.com





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Special Focus

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Nowadays information systems allow using large amounts of digital,
structured data for decision making. The power and ability of hardware and
software has been significantly increased. Related information and
communication technology (ICT) provides a competitive advantage in various
fields, such as supply chain management, logistics, marketing,
telecommunications, just to name a few. It incorporates and links to
information systems, planning tools for decision support as well as
supporting devices. While modern ICT systems are vital components in
decision making, their successful management rests on coordinated decision
making using analytical methods. Simulation and optimization can be
employed for, for example, pricing, procurement, distribution planning, and
beyond. Efficient algorithms have been developed combining heuristics and
meta-heuristics with exact methods. Besides these algorithms and available
data, progress is observed in sophisticated analytics tools to harness the
tremendous potential of the data to improve decision making. Intelligent
devices can communicate with various partners allowing access to relevant
data to assist in collecting information, share product information,
negotiate prices, and distribute alerts throughout concerned networks.



Decision analytics is the research and application area comprising theory,
methodology, and practice to analyze and support important managerial
decisions in a formal manner. The methods include models for optimization
of one or more goals, decision-making under conditions of uncertainty,
techniques of risk analysis and risk assessment, techniques for
facilitating group decision making as well as software and expert systems
for decision support. Special tools can be used for representing and
formally assessing important aspects of decisions, so that they help
decision-makers to leverage the knowledge hidden within organizational
data. Methods and tools involve data mining, optimization, simulation
modeling, pattern recognition, prescriptive methods, predictive modeling,
and performance management.



The special focus issue strives to explore the synergies between decision
analytics and information systems. It serves as a forum for researchers and
practitioners to disseminate high-quality original research as well as
case-studies of real-world analytics tasks in a leading international
journal. Topics of interest include but are not limited to business
applications in the areas:



•             Applied probability and stochastic processes

•             Business intelligence and business analytics

•             Business simulation

•             Data mining and knowledge discovery

•             Decision support systems

•             Forecasting

•             Fuzzy decision-making

•             Group decision-making

•             Heuristics, metaheuristics, and matheuristics

•             Knowledge-based systems

•             Multiple-criteria analysis

•             Optimization systems and applications

•             Risk analysis

•             Robustness and sensitivity analysis

•             Text analytics/Text mining

•             Uncertainty modeling

•             Web Analytics



Submission

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Authors are asked to submit their papers online under the category “BISE
Decision Analytics” by 2013-07-01 via Springer’s submission system
Editorial Manager (http://www.editorialmanager.com/buis/). All papers must
follow the typing and formatting instructions for
WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK/Business & Information Systems Engineering (BISE)
available at http://www.bise-journal.org. In particular, manuscripts should
not exceed 50,000 characters (discounting 5,000 characters for each
figure/table).



Submitted papers will undergo a double-blind review process and be refereed
by at least three domain experts according to quality, originality,
relevance, and scientific rigor.



Schedule

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Paper submission due: 2013-07-01

Notification of authors: 2013-08-26

Revisions due: 2013-10-28

Notification of authors: 2013-12-16

Completion of a second revision (if needed): 2014-01-20

Anticipated publication data: June 2014



Editors of the Special Focus



Prof. Dr. Leena Suhl

DS&OR Lab

Universität Paderborn

Warburger Straße 100

33098 Paderborn

Deutschland

suhl at dsor.de



Prof. Dr. Stefan Voß

Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik

Universität Hamburg

Von-Melle-Park 5

20146 Hamburg

Deutschland

stefan.voss at uni-hamburg.de
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