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<span style="color:black">Dear Colleague,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:black">As co-chairs for the<span class="apple-converted-space">
</span><b>Data, Text and Web Mining for Managerial Decision Support </b>minitrack at the<span class="apple-converted-space">
</span>47<sup>th</sup><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-47) which will be held at the Hilton Waikoloa, Big Island Hawaii on January 6-9, 2014,<span class="apple-converted-space">
</span><b>we would like to personally invite you to submit a paper or to serve as a reviewer.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">We are sending you this email because we are aware that you have a research interest in knowledge discovery (data, text or Web mining), business analytics, and/or big data analytics for managerial decision support and/or have published
 in this area. A representative list of general topic areas covered in this minitrack (which is not meant to be complete or comprehensive) includes:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:black">New methods and algorithms of data/text mining and advanced analytics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:black">The process and new methodologies of conducting data/text mining<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">        
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:black">Novel applications in sentiment analysis, social analytics, media analytics and data stream miming<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:black">Ethical and privacy issues in data/text mining<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:black">Novel applications of data mining for better decision making
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:black">Data pre-processing related aspect of data/text mining, such as data characterization, data cleaning, data integration, data sampling, data reduction, data visualization, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">        
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:black">Design issues, challenges and opportunities in agile analytics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:black">Emerging technologies and techniques, investment and governance mechanisms, coproduction methodologies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">        
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:black">Evolutions to scoring and data mining algorithms for advanced analytics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:black">In-database vs. in-memory advanced analytics capabilities<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:black">Visualization for supporting advanced analytics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:black">People and culture issues in managing advanced analytics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:black">Critical success factors for advanced analytics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">If you are interested in submitting a manuscript for review please note the following important dates (taken from the HICSS Website -
</span><a href="http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu">http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu</a><span style="color:black">):
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<span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span class="xstyle151"><b><span style="color:#CC0033">June 15              </span>
</b></span><b><span style="color:black">Submit full manuscripts for review.</span></b><span style="color:black"> The review is double-blind; therefore this submission must be without author names.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="xstyle221"><b><span style="color:#CC0033">August 15          </span>
</b></span><span style="color:black">Acceptance notices are emailed to authors by the Review System (make sure your server accepts the address:
</span><a href="https://email.okstate.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=uYnkcuFdZ0WmFa4xAWJglArDksLPEs9IPHGrXboNxSU1JFloT50E78RvcooCyCtfgaUF9IOnjS4.&URL=https%3a%2f%2fprecisionconference.com%2f%7ehicss" target="_blank">https://precisionconference.com/~hicss</a><span style="color:black">).
 At least one author of each accepted paper must immediately make plans to attend the conference, including initiating fiscal, visa, or other travel guarantees.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="xstyle221"><b><span style="color:#CC0033">September 15    </span></b></span><span style="color:black">S<b>ubmit Final Paper for Publication</b>.  At least one author of each paper should register by this date in order secure publication in the
 Proceedings.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">If you are willing to be a reviewer please notify us as soon as you can, and indicate the number of manuscripts (1, 2, 3, or more) that you would be willing to review.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Please refer to the HICSS Web site for further and more up-to-date information:<span class="apple-converted-space">
</span></span><a href="https://email.okstate.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=uYnkcuFdZ0WmFa4xAWJglArDksLPEs9IPHGrXboNxSU1JFloT50E78RvcooCyCtfgaUF9IOnjS4.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.hicss.hawaii.edu%2fhicss_42%2f42callforpapers.htm" target="_blank">http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/</a><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Also, if you have any questions please feel free to contact either of us.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="IT" style="color:black">Dursun Delen</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="IT" style="color:black">
</span></span><span lang="IT" style="color:black">(</span><a href="https://email.okstate.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=uYnkcuFdZ0WmFa4xAWJglArDksLPEs9IPHGrXboNxSU1JFloT50E78RvcooCyCtfgaUF9IOnjS4.&URL=mailto%3adursun.delen%40okstate.edu"><span lang="IT">dursun.delen@okstate.edu</span></a><span lang="IT" style="color:black">)</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Oklahoma State University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Phone: (918) 594-8283 Fax: (918) 594-8281<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="color:black">Asil Oztekin</span></b><span style="color:black"> (</span><a href="mailto:asil_oztekin@uml.edu">asil_oztekin@uml.edu</a><span style="color:black">)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">University of Massachusetts – Lowell<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Phone: (978) 934-2714 Fax: (978) 934-4034<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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