[AISWorld] Call For Papers 2014 ACM International Conference on Business Analytics (BAC 2014)

[Chin, Wynne]

CALL FOR PAPERS

2014 ACM International Conference on Business Analytics (BAC 2014)

October 8-9, 2014, Houston TX

 http://bac.acm.org



Conference Chair

Dr. Charles K. Davis

University of St. Thomas

DrChasDavis at ACM.org<mailto:DrChasDavis at ACM.org>



Treasurer

Ms. Kimberly L. Bullock

ExxonMobil Chemical Company

Kim.Bullock at ExxonMobil.com<mailto:Kim.Bullock at ExxonMobil.com>



Program Chair

Dr. Gerald D. Everett

IBM (retired)

GEverett at Gvtc.com<mailto:GEverett at Gvtc.com>



General Committee

Dr. Jonathan L.S. Byrnes

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

JLByrnes at MIT.edu<mailto:JLByrnes at MIT.edu>



Dr. Wagner A. Kamakura

Rice University

Kamakura at Rice.edu<mailto:Kamakura at Rice.edu>



Dr. Wynne Chin

University of Houston

WChin at UH.edu<mailto:WChin at UH.edu>



Dr. Wayne Winston

Indiana University

Winston at Indiana.edu<mailto:Winston at Indiana.edu>



Conference Coordinator

Dr. Charlene A. Dykman

University of St. Thomas

CADykman at StThom.edu<mailto:CADykman at StThom.edu>



CONFERENCE AT A GLANCE



Hosted by its Special Interests Groups (SIG) Board, this is the first ACM-sponsored Conference to focus on ‘Business Analytics’.  Key questions today deal with organizing and managing massive volumes of data effectively, the evolution of analytics techniques and software tools to support complex analytical processes, and how business analytics impacts and changes business organizations and their competitive situations.  This conference will address these and related issues.

TOPICS REQUESTED



* Theoretical Foundations of Business Analytics. Theories and Frameworks, Epistemology of Big Data, Design and Functionality

* Economic Impacts of Business Analytics. Innovation through Analytics, Revenue & Profit Analytics, Potential of ‘Big Data’, Impact Assessments, Advertising Analytics, Investment Analytics

* Functional Area Analytics. Marketing Analytics, Sales Analytics, Financial Analytics, Human Resources Analytics, Production and Operations Analytics, Oil & Gas Analytics, Healthcare Analytics, Travel Analytics, Sports Analytics, Educational Analytics

* Business Analytics Roles & Methods. Best Practices for Business Analytics, Impact of Analytics on IT and non-IT Roles, Advanced Analytics

* Big Data & Data Warehousing.  IT Operations, Data Mining, Data-Driven Management, Big Data Analytics

* Business Intelligence & Decision Systems. Opera-tional Analytics, Stochastic Modeling, Machine Learning, Cognitive Systems, Decision Support Systems, Enterprise Business Intelligence

* Business Analytics Technologies. Predictive Analytics, Analytics as a Service, Visualization, Distri-buted Parallel Architectures, Analytics Engines

* Data Sources and Data Collection. Data Acquisi-tion, Web Analytics, Scaling Business Analytics

* Defining and Controlling Analytics Projects. Staffing, Analytics Project Management

* Analytics and Strategy. Corporate Planning Models, Problem Finding, Planning Analytics

* The Future of Business Analytics. Analytics as a Service, Digital Management, Cloud-based Analytics, Organizational Impacts

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Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length papers for presentation at the conference and publication in the Proceedings.



Include the following items in your submission:

- Title for the presentation

- An abstract of the presentation (no more than 150 words)

- Name, affiliation, and email address of the speaker(s)

- A short biography of the speaker(s)

- Presentation body (no more than 5,000 words)



All submissions, written in English, must be electronically submitted in PDF format, must be formatted in accordance with the Submission Guidelines specified for this conference,  and will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings.



Paper Submission Deadline:    May 30, 2014

Notification of Acceptance:  July 15, 2014





Submit Papers Via the EasyChair System to:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bac2014
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