International Conference on Decision Science & Management (ICDSM-2018) is going to take place in IIMT Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India, on December 22-23, 2018. The emerging field of decision science is an interdisciplinary area, which deals with business processes and systems that are used to extract knowledge from large amount of data available from heterogeneous sources and provide significant insights to make crucial decisions in critical situations. Decision science, as a vast field, utilizes a lot of existing as well as new theories and techniques that belongs to diverse disciplines like business management, information science, mathematics, statistics and computer science. It adds value to various sectors of business management by the addition of statistical as well as computational techniques to generate valuable insights across the workflow in several business management processes, from the hiring process of new candidates on the basis of various evaluation parameters to helping the senior managers in making better decisions in vulnerable situations by keeping them informed about relevant dynamic and uncertain changes occurring in related sectors. Also, data driven logical revelation plays an important role in finding novel directions for advancement and improvement in several key areas such as supply chain management, logistics, business operations, financial markets, marketing strategies, human resource developments, resource management, social sciences, adoption of Internet of things, and distributed computing etc., thus making the integration of decision science techniques in business sector a potential research area.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

• Full papers (8 Pages)
• All submissions must be done through easychair system.

List of Topics

• Decision Support System

  Marketing Decision support System

  Intelligent Decision support System

  Collaborative Decision Software Design

  Online Analytical Processing System

  Knowledge Management in DSS.

• Optimization Tools in Management

  Price Optimization Model

  Revenue Enhancement Model

  Markdown Optimization Model

• ICT & Management Applications

  Impact of digital communication in business world

  Issues and challenges affecting modern business sectors

  Digital communication and global markets

• Business Strategy

  Integrating data science and digitization into business sectors

  Making new rules for disruptive innovation

  Managing technological advancement in business places

  Industrial analysis for digital transformation of systems

  Role of digitization globalization of business

  Emerging issues in globalizing different business sectors

  Technological developments in competitive environments

  Decision Making and Business Modeling

• Operation & Management

  Service-oriented operations

  Impact of IT on business organization

  Technology and innovation management

  Innovative processes in digitized business organizations

  Internet & e-commerce based applications

  Digital marketing research and strategy.

• HRD & Finance

  Emergence of HR analytics

  E-Recruitment of personnel

  Role of social media in HR

  Role of digitization in finance & economics

  Emerging issues in E-banking

  Decision making in risk forecasting and management

  Financial reporting using data science

Committees

Program Committee

• Prof. (Dr.) Srikanta Patnaik
• Prof. (Dr.) Vipul Jain

Organizing committee

• Prof. (Dr.) Sushanta Kumar Panigrahi

Invited Speakers

• Dr. Andrew W. H. Ip 

Publication

All accepted papers shall be published in the edited volume entitled “New Paradigm in Decision Science and Management : Proceedings of ICDSM 2018” under the Springer book Series “Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing” http://www.springer.com/series/11156.

Venue

The conference will be held in Interscience Institute of Management & Technology, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to secretary@interscience.ac.in