[AISWorld] CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS: Maximizing Global Business Performance through Intelligent Decision Support

[Zakariya Belkhamza]

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS
Maximizing Global Business Performance through Intelligent Decision Support
A book edited by Dr. Zakariya Belkhamza (Universiti Malaysia Sabah)
 
To be published by IGI Global: http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/1129
 
Introduction
The decision making is a crucial process for professionals and businessman in the global markets. Many types of decisions now need complex and critical investigation and analysis using the most advanced recent techniques and technologies, especially in the current dynamic and uncertain markets where many factors are involved in this process. Choosing the right strategy and making the correct decision is an optimal objective for any professional who is faced everyday by the challenges of the unstable market forces and factors. Therefore, a good decision-making policy is essential for any professional who wants to achieve a competitive advantage and lead his business to the success in the current global market.
 
The use of decision support and intelligent systems became recently essential technological tools to support the discussion making process and solve the ongoing problems in the daily business activities. The use of these systems makes this process faster, robust, and provides efficient and effective business solutions for strategies and business owners and decision makers. However, the integration and the use of these systems in the decision making process still require investigation and research, especially with the non-ending development and advancement of these techniques and technologies.
 
Objective of the Book
 
It is hoped that this book will assist in bridging the gap between decision system developers and designers and business professionals, by assisting the system designers to understand the needs of the practitioners in the global market, as well as to facilitate the use of these systems by the business practitioners in order to achieve their competitive advantages in the international market. 
 
The objectives of this book are to expend the knowledge on the various decision support systems for the decisions makers by achieving the following:
  1 To analyze the latest research on decision supports systems
  2 To discuss the various methods of the use of the decision support systems and techniques in the decision making process.
  3 To investigate the integration of the decision support system in various aspects of managerial decisions in the global and cross cultural context.
  4 To study the current methods and techniques used in the process of decision making and introduce new ways and mechanisms to for easy applications by professionals.
  5 To supply more empirical validations of the existing decision support systems and their applications.
 
Target Audience
The book is written for researchers, and students in decision support systems and related fields. The book will also be important to business professionals, global practitioners who are involved in the decision making.
 
Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
 
1. Artificial Intelligence in decision making
2. Predictive analysis
3. Decision support systems
4. Techniques and system applications for managerial decisions
5. Statistical forecasting techniques and decision making
6. Judgment business forecasting
7. Fuzzy intervention analysis
8. Business intelligence system
9. Decision and Risk Analysis
10. Multi-Objective Decision Analysis
11. Optimization in decision making
12. The use of Data Mining in decision making
13. Cloud computing in decision making
 Submission Procedure
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before February 15, 2014, a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by February 30, 2014 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by April 15, 2014. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. 
 
Publisher
This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the "Information Science Reference" (formerly Idea Group Reference), "Medical Information Science Reference," "Business Science Reference," and "Engineering Science Reference" imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2009.
 
Important Dates
February 15, 2014:   Proposal Submission Deadline
February 30, 2014:   Notification of Acceptance
April 30, 2014:   Full Chapter Submission
June 30, 2014:  Review Results Returned
July 30, 2014:   Final Chapter Submission
August 30, 2014:   Final Deadline 





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