Call for Papers HICSS-44: Minitrack Proposal (within DT):

"Intelligent Decision Support for Logistics and Supply Chain Management"

Part of the Decision Technologies and Service Sciences Track

FORTY-Fourth ANNUAL HAWAI'I INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEM SCIENCES 
(HICSS-44)
January 4-7, 2011 (Tuesday - Friday)
Grand Hyatt Kauai Resort and Spa
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Minitrack Co-Chairs
Andreas Fink, Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg, Germany Hans-Jürgen 
Sebastian, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Stefan Voß, University of 
Hamburg, Germany (primary contact person)

Topics description
The minitrack features theoretical developments, real-world applications 
and software solutions related to solving decision problems in logistics 
and supply chain management. Methods include optimization, heuristics 
and meta-heuristics, simulation, agent technologies, and descriptive 
methods.


Minitrack Description
Information technology (IT) is a prerequisite for successful supply 
chain management (SCM) today and will become even more so in near 
future. The logistics and SCM field is developing very dynamically. 
Business-to-business transactions are made via the Internet and 
enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems that manage the transactional 
information within the enterprise. While IT systems are vital components 
in supply chains, their successful management rests on intelligent and 
coordinated decision making throughout the logistics network. 
Intelligent decision support using advanced decision technologies are 
becoming increasingly important in logistics and SCM. Data warehouses 
and data mining can be used to store and analyze product, inventory, and 
sales information. Simulation and optimization, which can be found in 
advanced planning and scheduling systems, can be employed for, e.g., 
inventory, production, procurement, and distribution planning. 
Intelligent agents can e.g. communicate with different partners in the 
supply chain, assist in collecting information, share product 
information, negotiate prices, and distribute alerts throughout the 
logistics networks. The design and implementation of intelligent 
decision technologies to support human agents in logistics and SCM is a 
very active field in research, consulting and software development. Many 
such technologies or systems have been implemented recently or are 
currently in the stage of implementation. We do, therefore, believe that 
this minitrack will be recognized by both the scientific community and 
practitioners developing or using logistics and SCM solutions.

We aim again at organizing a minitrack consisting of two or three 
sessions depending on the number of high quality submissions. We seek 
papers dealing with decision technologies which contribute to 
intelligent decision support in the whole field of logistics and in 
particular in all categories of SCM. This includes but is not restricted 
to simulation, optimization, heuristics, metaheuristics, agent 
technologies, descriptive models, data warehousing, and data mining. We 
are especially interested in real-world applications and in software 
solutions which assist in solving decision problems. This is extended 
towards, e.g., advanced planning systems and the intelligent use of 
enterprise resource planning systems. Also conceptual ideas, reports on 
projects in progress, and case studies are welcome. Moreover, teaching 
cases both at the university as well as the executive level may be of 
interest.

If you are interested to submit kindly contact
Prof. Dr. Stefan Voß
University of Hamburg
Institute of Information Systems (IWI)
Von-Melle-Park 5, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
phone: +49-40-42838-3062,
fax: +49-40-42838-5535,
email: stefan.voss@uni-hamburg.de
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Information can be found / Submissions are welcome at: 
http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_44/apahome44.htm
HICSS-44 SCHEDULE:
June 15, 2010 submission deadline
August 15, 2010 REVIEW PROCESS: Notification


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See some recent books as follows:

MATHEURISTICS: Hybridizing Metaheuristics and
Mathematical Programming (Ed., with V. Maniezzo
and T. Stützle). Springer, Berlin (2009).
[ISBN: 978-1-4419-1305-0]

Logistik Management – Systeme, Methoden, Integration
(Ed.; with J. Pahl and S. Schwarze). Physica,
Heidelberg (2009). [Logistics Management – partly in
German and partly in English] [ISBN: 978-3-7908-2361-5]

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See our road pricing survey in Netnomics under:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/152420j000055200

See our container terminal survey update in
OR Spectrum under:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/018j57r4364148m0

See our load-dependent lead time survey update in
Annals of Operations Research under:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/b2303t30q537u644

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Prof. Dr. Stefan Voß
Universität Hamburg
Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik
Von-Melle-Park 5
D - 20146 Hamburg, Germany
FAX: ++49-40-42838-5535
TEL: ...-3062
E-mail: stefan.voss@uni-hamburg.de