-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Call for Papers (JDS) - Special Issue on Decision-Making Frameworks and Methods for Crisis Management in a Global Pandemic Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 21:35:15 +0000 From: Jose Manuel Mora Tavarez jose.mora@edu.uaa.mx To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org aisworld@lists.aisnet.org CC: Gloria Wren gwren@loyola.edu, jorge.marx.gomez@uni-oldenburg.de jorge.marx.gomez@uni-oldenburg.de

JOURNAL OF DECISION SYSTEMS

Special Issue on Decision-Making Frameworks and Methods for Crisis Management in a Global Pandemic

OBJECTIVE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE The objective of this special issue is to advance decision support methods and decision-making processes to manage efficiently, effectively, and ethically critical decisions on core human dimensions (health, economic, educational, social, and recreational) impacted by global pandemics such as COVID-19. High-quality conceptual and empirical research papers are invited from the international interdisciplinary scientific community interested in helping to devise potential solutions from a decision-making perspective.

RECOMMENDED TOPICS Consistently with the overall aim of the Journal of Decision Systems, the following topics are welcome in this special issue (but are not limited to):

* Theoretical aspects of decision making in a crisis * Methods and applications of decision support in a crisis * Machine learning to support decision making in a crisis * Case studies of decision support in a crisis * Decision systems with descriptive analytics (visualization, dashboards, reporting, spatial systems) * Decision systems with predictive analytics (data mining, text/web mining, machine learning, soft systems) * Decision systems with prescriptive analytics (DSS, MADM, MCDM, KBS, KMS, networking science, optimization, simulation) * Collaborative decision-making frameworks, methods, and processes * Distributed decision-making frameworks, methods, and processes * Ethical decision-making frameworks, methods, and processes * Post-pandemic era implications for business decision makers * Post-pandemic era implications for policy makers

IMPORTANT DATES - extended by multiple academic petitions First submission deadline – December 31, 2020 First editorial decision deadline – February 28, 2021 Second version submission deadline (conditioned papers) - March 31, 2021 Definitive editorial decision deadline – April 30, 2021 Camera-ready paper submission deadline – May 15, 2021 Publishing - last quarter 2021

GUEST EDITORS Prof. Gloria Phillips-Wren, Loyola University Maryland, USA, Prof. Manuel Mora, Autonomous University of Aguascalientes, Mexico, Prof. Fen Wang, Central Washington University, USA, Prof. Jorge Marx Gomez, University of Oldenburg, Germany

FULL SUBMISSION INFORMATION WEBLINKS: https://www.journalconferencejob.com/decision-making-frameworks-pandemic https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tjds20/current

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