<div dir="ltr">****************************************************************************<br>CALL FOR PAPERS<br><br>22nd European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2014)<br><br>Track: Decision Support and Big Data<br>
(<a href="http://ecis2014.eu/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/8.-Decision-Support-and-Big-Data1.pdf">http://ecis2014.eu/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/8.-Decision-Support-and-Big-Data1.pdf</a>)<br><br>June 9-11, 2014, Tel Aviv, Israel (<a href="http://ecis2014.eu/">http://ecis2014.eu/</a>)<br>
<br>****************************************************************************<br><br>TRACK CHAIRS<br><br>Tina Comes, University of Agder, Norway, <a href="mailto:martina.comes@uia.no">martina.comes@uia.no</a><br>Guido Schryen*, University of Regensburg, Germany, <a href="mailto:guido.schryen@ur.de">guido.schryen@ur.de</a><br>
Stefan Voß, University of Hamburg, Germany, <a href="mailto:stefan.voss@uni-hamburg.de">stefan.voss@uni-hamburg.de</a><br><br> *Corresponding track chair<br><br><br>DESCRIPTION<br><br>Intelligent decision support is known to be crucial in many business contexts, and it will both gain momentum and become increasingly challenging through the availability of very large data pools (big data). Sensor networks, social network activities, RFID deployment, Internet search histories and retail transactions are just a few examples of sources that are likely to generate Exabytes or even Zettabytes of data. The data are characterized by high levels of volume, velocity, variety and variability, and traditional analytics and techniques may easily fall short of storing, analyzing and processing these data and, even more so, using them in an intelligent way for decision making.<br>
<br>Key advantages of successfully managing big data and using them for decision making and business analytics include the improvement of overall efficiency, the improvement of speed and accuracy of decision making, the ability to forecast, the identification of business opportunities and a greater understanding of citizens’ and customers’ needs. Turning big data into business and society value will thus become one of the major challenges in the IS discipline. The close link between data and decisions shall avoid the processing of irrelevant or redundant information and thus help reduce information overload while ensuring that all relevant information is processed.<br>
<br>This track looks for new and innovative methodologies, techniques, theories, and systems that allow for exploiting big data pools to support decision makers. We invite both quantitative and analytical contributions.<br>
<br><br>TOPICS OF INTEREST<br><br>Possible topics include, but are not limited to:<br><br>* Data mining and machine learning in decision support contexts,<br><br>* Decision making, including optimization models and methodologies<br>
<br>* Uncertainty and risk management in decision support<br><br>* Iterative, sequential and interdependent decisions<br><br>* Social media analysis and crowd sourcing<br><br>* Collaborative and participatory decision making including social media applications<br>
<br>* Retail and customer analysis<br><br>* Logistics and supply chain analysis and supply chain risk management<br><br>* Internet data analysis<br><br>* Data quality<br><br>* Business value of big data<br><br>* Video analytics<br>
<br>* Geospatial analytics<br><br>* Cloud analytics and intelligence<br><br><br>SPONSORSHIP<br><br>Authors of exceptional papers will be invited for submitting an expanded version to a fast-track special issue in the Springer journal Annals of Information Systems.<br>
<br><br>IMPORTANT DATES<br><br>Paper Submission begins: 1 November, 2013<br>Submission Deadline Date: 8 December, 2013<br>Notification of Acceptance: March 3, 2014<br>Final version of accepted papers due: March 30, 2014<br>
Early Bird Registration closes: April 16, 2014<br><br><br>ASSOCIATE EDITORS<br><br>Jörn Altmann, Seoul National University, Korea<br><br>Christer Carlsson, Abo Akademi University, Finland<br><br>Haluk Demirkan, University of Washington – Tacoma, USA<br>
<br>Benjamin Fabian, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany<br><br>Andreas Fink, Helmut-Schmidt-University, Germany<br><br>Ole-Christoffer Granmo, University of Agder, Norway<br><br>Richard F. Hartl, University of Vienna, Austria<br>
<br>Laetitia Jourdan, INRIA, France<br><br>Mathias Klier, University of Regensburg, Germany<br><br>Nathalie Kliewer, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany<br><br>Leo Kroon, Rotterdam School of Management, The Netherlands<br><br>
Janny M.Y Leung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China<br><br>Dirk C. Mattfeld, Technische Universität Braunschweig<br><br>Lars Mönch, Fernuniversität Hagen, Germany<br><br>Leysia Palen, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA<br>
<br>Fethi A. Rabhi, University of New South Wales, Australia<br><br>Franz Rothlauf, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany<br><br>Vicente Salas Fumás, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain<br><br>Michael Scholz, Universität Passau, Germany</div>