{"id":568,"date":"2013-04-05T09:14:59","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T07:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bise-journal.com\/?p=568"},"modified":"2013-04-05T09:14:59","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T07:14:59","slug":"32014-decision-analytics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bise-journal.com\/?p=568","title":{"rendered":"3\/2014 Decision Analytics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Special Focus<\/strong>
\nNowadays information systems allow using large amounts of digital, structured data for decision making. The power and ability of hardware and software has been significantly increased. Related information and communication technology (ICT) provides a competitive advantage in various fields, such as supply chain management, logistics, marketing, telecommunications, just to name a few. It incorporates and links to information systems, planning tools for decision support as well as supporting devices. While modern ICT systems are vital components in decision making, their successful management rests on coordinated decision making using analytical methods. Simulation and optimization can be employed for, for example, pricing, procurement, distribution planning, and beyond. Efficient algorithms have been developed combining heuristics and metaheuristics with exact methods. Besides these algorithms and available data, progress is observed in sophisticated analytics tools to harness the tremendous potential of the data to improve decision making. Intelligent devices can communicate with various partners allowing access to relevant data to assist in collecting information, share product information, negotiate prices, and distribute alerts throughout concerned networks.<\/p>\n

Decision analytics is the research and application area comprising theory, methodology, and practice to analyze and support important managerial decisions in a formal manner. The methods include models for optimization of one or more goals, decision-making under conditions of uncertainty, techniques of risk analysis and risk assessment, techniques for facilitating group decision making as well as software and expert systems for decision support. Special tools can be used for representing and formally assessing important aspects of decisions, so that they help decision-makers to leverage the knowledge hidden within organizational data. Methods and tools involve data mining, optimization, simulation modeling, pattern recognition, prescriptive methods, predictive modeling, and performance management.<\/p>\n

The special focus issue strives to explore the synergies between decision analytics and information systems. It serves as a forum for researchers and practitioners to disseminate high-quality original research as well as case-studies of real-world analytics tasks in a leading international journal. Topics of interest include but are not limited to business applications in the areas:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Applied probability and stochastic processes
\n\u2022 Business intelligence and business analytics
\n\u2022 Business simulation
\n\u2022 Data mining and knowledge discovery
\n\u2022 Decision support systems
\n\u2022 Forecasting
\n\u2022 Fuzzy decision-making
\n\u2022 Group decision-making
\n\u2022 Heuristics, metaheuristics, and matheuristics
\n\u2022 Knowledge-based systems
\n\u2022 Multiple-criteria analysis
\n\u2022 Optimization systems and applications
\n\u2022 Risk analysis
\n\u2022 Robustness and sensitivity analysis
\n\u2022 Text analytics\/Text mining
\n\u2022 Uncertainty modeling
\n\u2022 Web Analytics<\/p>\n

Submission<\/strong>
\nAuthors are asked to submit their papers online under the category \u201cBISE Decision Analytics\u201d by 2013-07-01 via Springer\u2019s submission system Editorial Manager (http:\/\/www.editorialmanager.com\/buis\/<\/a>). All papers must follow the typing and formatting instructions for WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK\/Business & Information Systems Engineering (BISE) available at http:\/\/www.bise-journal.org<\/a>. In particular, manuscripts should not exceed 50,000 characters (discounting 5,000 characters for each figure\/table).<\/p>\n

Submitted papers will undergo a double-blind review process and be refereed by at least three domain experts according to quality, originality, relevance, and scientific rigor.<\/p>\n

Schedule<\/strong>
\nPaper submission due: 2013-07-01
\nNotification of authors: 2013-08-26
\nRevisions due: 2013-10-28
\nNotification of authors: 2013-12-16
\nCompletion of a second revision (if needed): 2014-01-20
\nAnticipated publication data: June 2014<\/p>\n

Editors of the Special Focus<\/strong><\/p>\n

Prof. Dr. Leena Suhl (* Korrespondenzautor)
\nDS&OR Lab
\nUniversit\u00e4t Paderborn
\nWarburger Stra\u00dfe 100
\n33098 Paderborn
\nDeutschland
\nsuhl@dsor.de<\/a><\/p>\n

Prof. Dr. Stefan Vo\u00df
\nInstitut f\u00fcr Wirtschaftsinformatik
\nUniversit\u00e4t Hamburg
\nVon-Melle-Park 5
\n20146 Hamburg
\nDeutschland
\nstefan.voss@uni-hamburg.de<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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