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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#222222">Possible List of Topics/Categories</span></b><span style="color:#222222"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#222222">We
are accepting article proposals within the following fields of research for
this exhaustive publication. Please feel
free to suggest other areas related to your expertise, even if they are not specifically
necessarily listed below.<b> </b></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Behavioral
sciences </span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Big
Data applications </span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Big
Data management </span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Big
Data mining and analytics</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Big
Data processing tools</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Big
Data sharing</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Big
Data systems and tools</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Big
Data theory</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Big
Data visualization</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Business
forecasting </span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Business
intelligence </span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Business
mathematics </span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:#444444">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Business
transformation<span style="color:#444444"></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Collections
analytics</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Complementarity
problems</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Computational
and numerical experiments</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Computer
simulations </span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Constrained
programming</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Control
theory</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Convex
programming</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Customer
relationship management</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Decision
making in social setting </span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Decision
making under uncertainty </span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Decision
making with multimedia </span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Decision
sciences </span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Decision
theory </span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Digital
analytics</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Digital
market design and operation</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Distributed
and federated datasets</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Distributed
file systems for Big Data</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Dynamic
programming</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Electronic
commerce </span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Ethical
decision making </span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Financial
Services analytics</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Fractional
programming</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Fraud
analytics</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Fuzzy
information processing </span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Fuzzy
optimization</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Game
theory</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Global
optimization</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Group
decision making and software </span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Heuristic
programming</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Informatics
</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Information
technology </span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Intelligent
agents technologies </span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Intelligent
organizations </span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Large
data stream processing on cloud</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Large
incremental datasets on cloud</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Large
scale optimization</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Linear
programming</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Marketing
analytics</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Mathematical
optimization </span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Mathematics
of decision sciences </span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Metaheuristic
algorithms</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Methods
of decision making </span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Modeling
of service, industrial, and environmental processes </span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Multi-objective
programming</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Multiple
criteria decision making </span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Multiple
source data processing and integration</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Network
and social-graph analysis</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Network
modeling and theory</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">New
algorithmic approaches to Big Data</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Nonlinear
dynamic systems</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Nonlinear
programming</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Nonsmooth
programming</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Numerical
analysis & methods </span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Operational
intelligence</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Optimization</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Parametric
programming</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Performance
measurement</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Perspectives
of decision making </span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Political
decision making </span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span>Predictive
analytics<b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></b></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Pricing
analytics</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Privacy
preserving on cloud</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Public
decision making </span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Retail
sales analytics</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Revenue
management</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Risk
& credit analytics</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Robust
decision making </span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Scenario
and sensitivity analysis </span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Security
& privacy in Big Data</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Sequential
decision making </span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Social
media analytics</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Soft,
natural, and bio-inspired computing</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Statistical
decision </span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Statistical
simulations and techniques</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Stochastic
programming</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Styles
of decision making </span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Supply
Chain analytics</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">System
analysis & theory</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Targeted
marketing</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Text
analytics</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Theoretical
development of Big Data</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Transportation
analytics</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Volume,
velocity and variety of Big Data on cloud</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Web-based
decision making</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">You
name it</span></p>
<p> </p>
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