Guide for Authors management; data management in DSSs; rule management

and AI in DSSs; coordinating a DSS’s functionality within its

Editor-in-Chief Managing Editor
Andrew B. Whinston Veronika Whinston
MSIS Department CBA 5-202 MSIS Department CBA 5-202
University of Texas-Austin University of Texas-Austin
Austin, TX 78712 Austin, TX 78712
USA USA
Tel.: (512) 471-8879 Tel.: (512) 471-8879
Fax: (512) 471-0587 Fax: (512) 471-0587
Email: dss@uts.cc.utexas.edu
Area Editors
1. DSS Foundations FRANÇOIS BODART
CLYDE W. HOLSAPPLE Université Notre Dame de la Paix
Dept. of Decision Science and Rue Grandgagnage 21
Information Systems B-500 Namur
Business and Economics Building BELGIUM
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506-0034 GIAMPIO BRACCHI
USA Politecnico di Milano
Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32
2. DSS Development-Functionality I-20-133 Milano
A. GUPTA ITALY
Information and Decision Sciences
JOHN BUTLER
University of Minnesota
321-19th Avenue South The Ohio State University
3-365 CSOM 2100 Neil Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55455 Columbus, OH 43210
USA
USA
JAMES I. CASH
3. DSS Development-Interfaces
Management Information Systems
T.P. LIANG
College of Management
Graduate School of Business
Harvard University
National Sun Yat-sen University
Kaohsiung, Taiwan 80424
Anderson 34
Soldiers Field
R.O.C.
Boston, MA 02163
4. DSS Impacts and Evaluation USA
JAMES MARSDEN
AI-MEI CHANG
School of Business Administration
University of Connecticut
Information Resources Management
College
368 Fairfield Rd., Rm. 302, U-41IM
Storrs, CT 06269
National Defense University
Ft. McNair
USA
Washington, DC 20319
USA
5. DSS Reference Studies
PROF. RAMESH SHARDA
PRABUDDHA DE
Spears School of Bus. Mgmt. Science
Krannert School of Management
and Information Systems Dept.
Purdue University
Oklahoma State University
West Lafayette
Stillwater, OK 74078
IN 47907-1310
USA
USA
6. DSS Experiences, Management
AMITAVA DUTTA
and Education
George Mason University
PROF. FRADA BURSTEIN
Decision Sciences and MIS
School of Information Management
School of Business Administration
and Systems
Fairfax, VA 22030-4444
Faculty of Information Technology
USA
Monash University
PO Box 197 JANE FENG
Caulfield East 3145 Vic. Warrington College of Business
AUSTRALIA
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611
G. KOEHLER
USA
School of Business Admin
Decision and Information Sciences CHRISTOPHER HABEL
University of Florida Universität Hamburg
Gainesville, FL 32611 Fachbereich Informatik
USA Vogt-Köln-Str 30
D-22527 Hamburg
7. DSS Digital and Web Computing
GERMANY
HSINCHUN CHEN
MIS Department TERRENCE HENDERSHOTT
MCCL 430Z Haas School of Business
Tucson, AZ 85721 Univ. of California at Berkeley
USA Berkeley, CA 94720-1900
USA
Associate Editors A. HEVNER
University of South Florida
R. AGARWAL College of Business
University of Maryland 4202 E. Fowler Ave. CIS1040
College of Business and Management Tampa, FL 33620
IMS Department USA
College Park, MD 20742
USA WEN-LING HSU
AT & T Labs.
S. BA
1CO3 Building 104
Dept. of Operations and 180 Park Ave.
Information Management
Florham Park, NJ 09732
School of Business
USA
Univ. of Connecticut
2100 Hollside Road PATRICK HUMPHREYS
Storres, CT 06269 London School of Economics
USA Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE
ANDREW D. BAILEY, JR. UK
Securities and Exchange Commission
450 Fifth Street., NW VARGHESE S. JACOB
Washington, DC 20549 The University of Texas at Dallas
USA School of Management
Management Science & Information
KURT BAUKNECHT Systems
Universität Zürich 2601 N. Floyd Road, J044/RM.
Winterthurerstrasse 190 4.812, Richardson
CH-8057 Zürich TX 75083-0688,
SWITZERLAND USA
M. MANNINO RADHIKAR SANTHANAM
Management Information Systems DSIS Area Authors should consult the Guide for Authors available at user interface)
Graduate School of Business Gatton College of Business &
University of Colorado Economics www.elsevier.com/locate/dss
P.O. Box 173364 Univ. of Kentucky
Denver, CO 80217-3364 Lexington, KY 40506-0034
USA USA
Aims and Scope 3. DSS Development-Interfaces
(e.g. methods, tools, and techniques for developing the overt
PETER MERTENS FABIO A. SCHREIBER
Universität Erlangen Nürnberg Politecnico di Milano
Portfach 3931 Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 Decision Support Systems welcomes contributions on the user interface of a DSS; managing linguistic, presentation,
D-90020 Nürnberg 20133 Milano
concepts and operational basis for DSSs, techniques for and user knowledge in a DSS; DSS help facilities; coordinat-
GERMANY ITALY
implementing and evaluating DSSs, DSS experiences, and ing a DSS’s interface events with its functionality events)
LEIF B. METHLIE AMILCAR SERNADAS
Norges Handelshogskole INESC related studies. In treating DSS topics, manuscripts may
Helleveien 30 Rua Alves Redol 9, 2
5000 Bergen-Sandviken 1000 Lisboa delve into, draw-on, or expand such diverse areas as artifi-
NORWAY PORTUGAL
cial intelligence, cognitive science, computer supported 4. DSS Impacts and Evaluation
WOLFGANG JANKO
Wirtschaftsuniversität BERND E. MEYER MICHAEL JENG-PING SHAW cooperative work, data base management, decision theory, (e.g. DSS economics; DSS measurement; DSS impacts on
Auegasse 2-6 Hermann-Münzing Str. 15 Department of Business Administration
A-1096 Wien D-74223 Flein University of Illinois economics, linguistics, management science, mathematical individual users, multiparticipant users, organizations, and
Commerce Building
AUSTRIA GERMANY
1206 S. Sixth St. modeling, operations management psychology, user inter- societies; evaluating/justifying DSSs)
KOU JISONG VIJAY S. MOOKERJEE Champaign, IL 61820-6271
USA
face management systems, and others. The common thread
Dept. of Management
Institute of Information and Control (IIC)
Tianjin University School of Business of articles published in the journal will be their relevance to
Univ. of Texas at Dallas PROFESSOR MICHAEL SMITH
Tianjin 300072
Richardson, TX 75083-0688 H. John Heinz III School of Public theoretical, technical DSS issues. 5. DSS Reference Studies
P.R. OF CHINA Policy and Mgm.
USA
Carnegie Mellon Univ.
The Journal’s research papers tend to fall into the following (e.g. reference discipline tutorials for DSS researchers;
P.K. KANNAN JUZAR MOTIWALLA 4800 Forbes Avenue, HBH 2105D six topic departments: emerging technologies relevant to DSS characteristics or
The Robert H. Smith School of Business National University of Singapore Pittsburgh, PA 15213
University of Maryland Kent Ridge USA DSS development; related studies on such topics as com-
College Park, MD 20742 Tel: 412-268-5978
USA
SINGAPORE 0511
E-mail: mds@cmu.edu 1. DSS Foundations munication support systems, computer supported coopera-
ERICH J. NEUHOLD
JAN STALLAERT
(e.g. DSS principles, concepts, and theories; frameworks, tive work, negotiation support systems, research support
MELODY Y. KIANG Research Studio DME
Information Systems Department Thurngasse 8/20 University of Connecticut formal languages, and methods for DSS research; tutorials systems, task support systems)
College of Business Administration 1090 Vienna 368 Fairfield Road, U-41OPIM
California State University at Long Beach AUSTRIA Storrs, CT 06269-2041 about the nature of DSS; assessments of the DSS field)
USA
1250 Bellflower Blvd.
Long Beach, CA 90840 J. NIEVERGELT
V.C. STOREY
6. DSS Experiences, Management, and Education
USA Informatik, ETH
CH-8092 Zürich Georgia State University 2. DSS Development-Functionality (e.g. experiences in developing or operating DSSs; systems
SWITZERLAND CIS, Department of Business
HIROSHI KONNO Administration (e.g. methods, tools, and techniques for developing the solutions to specific decision support needs; approaches to
Tokyo Institute of Technology
P.O. Box 4015
2-12-1 Oh-Okayama, Meguru-ku
KIYOSHI NIWA
Atlanta, GA 30302-4015
underlying functional aspects of a DSS; solver/model managing DSSs; DSS instruction/training approaches)
Department of General Systems
Tokyo 152 USA
The University of Tokyo
JAPAN
3-8-1, Komaba, Meguro-ku
MICHIO SUZUKI
Tokyo 153
HERMANN KRALLMANN Centr. Research Institute of EPI
JAPAN
Technische Universität Berlin 10601 Ohtemachi, Chiyoda-ku
Franklinstrasse 28/29 Tokyo 100
JAY F. NUNAMAKER, JR.
D-10587 Berlin JAPAN
University of Arizona
GERMANY
Tucson, AZ 85721
KAR YAN TAM
USA
Department of Business
RAMAYYA KRISHNAN
Information Systems
H. John Heinz III School of RAM PAKATH
School of Business and Management
Public Policy and Management Decision Science and
Hong Kong University
Carnegie Mellon University Information Systems
of Science and Technology
Pittsburgh, PA 15214 Business and Economics Building
Clear Water Bay
USA University of Kentucky
Kowloon
Lexington, KY 40506-0034
HONG KONG
HSIANGCHU LAI USA
Department of Information Management I.B. TURKSEN
National Sun Yat-sen University SUNG JOO PARK
University of Toronto
Hsi-Tze Wan, Kaohsiung 80424 Department of Management
Faculty of Applied Science
Taiwan Science
and Engineering
R.O.C. Korea Advanced Institute of Science
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A4
and Technology
CANADA
373-1 Kusong-dong, Yusong-ku
KARL R. LANG Taejon 305-701
TIBOR VAMOS
City Univ. of New York SOUTH KOREA
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Dept. of Computer Information Systems
Victor Hugo U. 18-22
Zicklin School of Business F.J. RADERMACHER
1133 Budapest
Baruch College FAW-Ulm
17 Lexington Avenue, HUNGARY
P.O. Box 2060
New York, NY 10010 D-89010 Ulm PROFESSOR BRUCE WEBER
USA GERMANY London Business School
Regent’s park
JAE KYU LEE PROF. BALASUBRAMANIAM RAMESH London, NW1 4SA
Department of Management Science J. Mack Robinson College UK
Korea Advanced Institute of Science of Business E-mail: bweber@london.edu
and Technology Georgia State University
P.O. Box 150 Atlanta, GA 30332-0520 RICHARD J. WELKE
Seoul USA CIS Department
KOREA Georgia State University
B. RAMESH P.O. Box 4015
D. LEIDNER Georgia State University Atlanta, GA 30302-4015
Information Systems Dept. Altanta, GA USA
Baylor University USA
P.O. Box 98005 GEORGE WRIGHT
Waco, TX 7698-8005 H.R. RAO Strathclyde Graduate Business School
USA 325G Jacobs Management Center University of Strathclyde
State University of New York, Glasgow, G4 0QU
Buffalo SCOTLAND
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Université d’Aux-Marseille III USA PROF. DANIEL ZENG
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