2002 Information Resources Management Association International Conference
May 19-22, 2002
at Renaissance Madison Hotel
Seattle, Washington, USA

Submission Deadline October 1, 2001

TRACK CHAIR
George Ditsa
University of Wollongong, Australia
E-mail: georged@uow.edu.au

TRACK COVERAGE

New technology is emerging at an unprecendented rate.  Tasks that were not feasible before are becoming trivial.  Today, we can communicate with anybody at any place at any time.  New software products are being developed almost everyday to assist decision making at different managerial levels. With the rapid changes in technology and software, analysts are beginning to provide support to high level executives like, the Board of Directors, the President, the Congress, Directors and the CEOs.  With the advent of internet/intranet, decision support is taking a completely different meaning,an on-line real time paperless support.

RECOMMENDED TOPICS

The Decision Support Technologies Track encourages the submission of quality papers and panel and
workshop proposals dealing with (but not limited to) the following topics:

Intranet/internet and its implications for Decision support
Data Warehousing and its usage in decision support
Cross-cultural issues in multinational decision support
Successes and failures in decision support applications
Data mining and its implications for decision support
Client/server architecture for decision support
Decision support in human resource management
Field/lab studies that provide innovative ideas
Intelligent information Support Systems
Emerging technologies and their implication for decision support

Full lengths papers (3-3500 words), research-in-progress proposals
(abstracts/summaries of 500-1000 words) and panel, workshop, tutorial or
symposium proposals (500-1000 words) invited.

For complete conference information, visit the IRMA Web Site at
http://www.irma-international.org

All submissions to be sent to:
irmaconf@irma-international.org

Please note that selected papers will also be considered for inclusion
in refereed journals.