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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT size=3>Call for Minitrack Papers: </FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT size=3>Information Issues in Supply Chain and in Service System Design<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT size=3>(Part of the Organizational Systems and Technology Track, HICSS 46)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT size=3>We invite you to submit papers for the Information Issues in Supply Chain and in Service System Design minitrack at HICSS, January 7-10, 2013. The conference will be held on Maui, Hawaii.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT size=3>We invite state-of-art empirical, theoretical, experimental, and simulation research along with rigorous case studies exploring the increasing complex roles that information systems now play in the design of successful operations at many supply chain and service systems. We are also soliciting comprehensive reviews of relevant research, and applications highlighting the use of new technologies, methods, and techniques. In particular, we want to systematically explore the complex interplay between business process designs, technology, organizational architectures, and information sharing. There is a growing body of research within the economics, marketing, operations management, information systems, and healthcare communities which are starting to address those issues. We expect to see applications analyzing enterprise resource allocation, call center management, capacity planning, revenue management, scheduling, inventory management, and global coordination of supply chains, logistical operations, dynamic pricing, contingent contracting, and the impact of information asymmetry across market agents. Thus the track is open to a wide range of content areas that lend themselves to the analysis of information issues in Supply Chain and Service System Design. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT size=3>Selected papers from the minitrack will be fast tracked to the special issue of DSS. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT size=3>June 15 Submit full manuscripts for review.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT size=3>Aug 15 Acceptance notices are emailed to authors by the Review System.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT size=3>Sept 15 Accepted authors submit Final Paper <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT size=3>Oct 1 Early registration fee deadline. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT size=3>Oct 15 Papers without at least one registered author will be deleted from the Proceedings and not scheduled for presentation. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT size=3>Details on the conference and venue as well as instructions for authors can be found at:<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT size=3><A href="http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_46/apahome46.htm">http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_46/apahome46.htm</A> </FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT size=3><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT size=3>Minitrack</FONT></SPAN> Co-Chairs:<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT size=3>Abraham Seidmann (Primary contact)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT size=3>Computers & Information Systems<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT size=3>Electronic Commerce and Operations Management<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT size=3>Simon Graduate School of Business Administration<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT size=3>University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT size=3>Phone: 585-275–5694; Email: Avi.Seidmann@Simon.Rochester.edu <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT size=3>Yabing Jiang <SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 7"> Jie</SPAN> Zhang</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT size=3>Graduate School of Business<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 5"> </SPAN>College of Business<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT size=3>Fordham University <SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 6"> </SPAN>University of Texas at Arlington</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT size=3>New York, NY 10023 <SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 6"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT size=3>Phone: 212-636-6131 <SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 6"> </SPAN>Phone: 817-272-0537<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT size=3>Email: yajiang@fordham.edu <SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 4"> </SPAN>Email: jiezhang@uta.edu <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P><BR><BR>Yabing Jiang, Ph.D.<BR>Assistant Professor<BR>Information Systems<BR>Graduate School of Business Administration<BR>Fordham University</DIV>
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