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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Call for Minitrack Papers:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Information Issues in Supply Chain and in Service System Design<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>(Part of the Organizational Systems and Technology Track, HICSS 47)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>We invite you to submit papers for the <i>Information Issues in Supply Chain and in Service System Design</i> minitrack at HICSS, January 6-9, 2014. The conference will be held on Big Island, Hawaii.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>This minitrack, building upon a successful track record of the last four years, will bring to HICSS state of art empirical, theoretical, 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. This minitrack has been attracting a growing number of scholars from all over the world and has already led to three very successful Special Issues in the <i>Decision Support Systems</i> journal. We expect to see applications analyzing call center management, capacity planning, contingent contracting, enterprise resource allocation, inventory management, logistical operations, revenue management, transportation systems design, scheduling and global coordination of supply chains, dynamic pricing, ecommerce, and the impact of information asymmetry across market agents. Selected papers from the minitrack will be fast tracked to a Special Issue of a leading refereed journal. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Important Dates</span></u></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'>June 15</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> Submit full manuscripts for review.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'>Aug 15 </span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Acceptance notices are emailed to authors by the Review System.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'>Sept 15</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> Accepted authors submit Final Paper and early registration fee deadline. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'>Oct 1</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> Early registration fee deadline. At least one author of each paper should register by this date. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'>Oct 15</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> Papers without at least one registered author will be deleted from the Proceedings. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Details on the conference and venue as well as instructions for authors can be found at<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'><a href="http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_47/apahome47.htm">http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_47/apahome47.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoPlainText><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'><o:p><span style='text-decoration:none'> </span></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoPlainText><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Minitrack Co-Chairs</span></u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Abraham Seidmann</span></b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <b>(Primary contact)<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Xerox Professor, Simon Graduate School of Business Administration<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Phone: 585-275–5694; Email: <a href="mailto:Avi.Seidmann@Simon.Rochester.edu">Avi.Seidmann@Simon.Rochester.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Yabing Jiang</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>, Assistant Professor <b>Jie Zhang</b>, Assistant Professor<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Lutgert College of Business<span style='color:navy'> </span>College of Business<span style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Florida Gulf Coast University University of Texas at Arlington<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Fort Myers, FL 33965<span style='color:navy'> </span>Arlington, TX 76019<span style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Email: <a href="mailto:yjiang@fgcu.edu">yjiang@fgcu.edu</a> Email: <a href="mailto:jiezhang@uta.edu">jiezhang@uta.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Office Tel: 239-590-7163 Office Tel: 817-272-0537<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>