[AISWorld] PLS'17: Abstract submission deadline extension + Keynote speech by Prof. Galit Shmueli

[Jose L. Roldan]

Dear researchers,

The preparation work of PLS’17 is carried out smoothly now. We have submissions from Australia, France, Germany, HK, Italy, Macau, Mainland China, Malaysia, Morocco, Netherlands, Spain, Taiwan, UK, USA, etc. Besides, we confirmed a couple of sessions during the conference. Since last week, we have gotten dozens of requests on submission deadline extension. Many authors would like to join PLS’17 but they ask if they could submit their satisfactory work after December.

Therefore, we decide to change the current abstract submission December 17, 2016 to February 17, 2017. The full paper submission deadline is April 17, the same as before.

Current PLS’17 sessions:

·         The application of Partial Least Squares (PLS) in Developing Country Research – by Prof. T. Ramayah
·         PLS en Español – by Prof. Gabriel Cepeda Carrión and José Roldán
·         PLS and Marketing Science – by Prof. Christian M. Ringle
·         PLS applications on tourism and environmental studies – by Prof. Ivan Lai
·         PLS research and Management Science – by Prof. Wang Huiwen
·         The application of Partial Least Squares (PLS) in Developing Country Research – by Prof. T. Ramayah
·         Understanding Big Data – by Prof. Harald Martens
·         ADANCO session – Prof. Jörg Henseler
·         SmartPLS session – by Prof. Christian M. Ringle
·         Predictive issues in PLS path modeling and related methods – by Dr. Giorgio Russolillo and Prof. Gilbert Saporta
·         WarpPLS session – by Dr. Ned Kock and Dr. S. Mostafa Rasoolimanesh
·         Factor-based SEM building on consistent PLS – by Dr. Ned Kock
·         PLS and Prediction – by Prof. Soumya Ray and Prof. Galit Shmueli

Submissions should focus on PLS SEM and related methods with application in areas and disciplines related to Management, Social Sciences, Chemometrics, Sensory Analysis, Industry, Traditional medicine, PLS & tourism and Life Sciences including Genomics.

On the other hand, we are glad to announce that Prof. Galit Shmueli will join us and provide a keynote speech. Galit Shmueli is Tsing Hua Distinguished Professor at the Institute of Service Science, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. She is also Director of the Center for Service Innovation & Analytics at NTHU's College of Technology Management. Between 2011-2014 she was the SRITNE Chaired Professor of Data Analytics and Associate Professor of Statistics & Information Systems at the Indian School of Business.

Dr. Shmueli’s research focuses on statistical and data mining methodology with applications in information systems and healthcare. She authors multiple books, including the popular textbook Data Mining for Business Analytics and over 60 publications in peer-reviewed journals and books, including the top journals Management Science, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Information Systems Research, MISQ, Marketing Science, Statistical Science and Technometrics. Dr. Shmueli is senior editor at Decision Sciences Journal (Analytics section) and associate editor for the top journals Annals of Applied Statistics, JASA Reviews & The American Statistician Reviews.

Dr. Shmueli has provided consulting services to private companies (including Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Structured Decisions Corporation, Health Policy Analysis, and Accenture) and to US government and state agencies (including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Indiana Economic Development Corporation).

More information will be found on www.pls17.org or www.plsconference.com. We are looking forward to seeing you in Macau next year.

Yide Liu, Ph.D.
PLS'17 Local Chair
Associate Professor
School of Business
Macau University of Science and Technology
Direct Line: (+853) 88972862
Email: ydliu at must.edu.mo
Office: A406b