Coverage
Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Behavioral sciences
• Business forecasting
• Business intelligence
• Business mathematics
• Computer science
• Data mining
• Decision making in social setting
• Decision making under uncertainty
• Decision making with multimedia
• Decision sciences
• Decision support systems and software
• Decision theory
• Economics
• Electronic commerce
• Ethical decision making
• Fussy information processing
• Game theory
• Grid analysis
• Group decision making and software
• Informatics
• Information technology
• Intelligent agents technologies
• Knowledge discovery in databases
• Management information systems
• Mathematical optimization
• Mathematics of decision sciences
• Methods of decision making
• Morphological analysis
• Multiple criteria decision making
• Network analysis
• Neural networks
• Operations research
• Perspectives of decision making
• Political decision making
• Psychology
• Public decision making
• Risk management
• Robust decision making
• Scenario analysis
• Sensitivity analysis
• Sequential decision making
• Simulation methods
• Sociology
• Statistical decision
• Styles of decision making
• System analysis
• System theory
• Technological forecasting
• Web search & design
The Audience for IJDS
• Decision makers
• Accounting researchers and managers
• Financial researchers and managers
• Information systems researchers and managers
• Marketing researchers and managers
• Operational researchers and managers
• Government officials
• Economists
• Social workers
• Systems engineers
• Strategic planners
• Policy makers
• Problem solvers
• Educators and students
• Applied statisticians
• Consultants
Submission
Manuscripts should be submitted by e-mail as a file attachment in Microsoft Word format to the appropriate departmental associate editors or to the editor-in-chief. Papers should be double-spaced and usually fewer than 8,000 words, including all references, tables, graphs and appendix items. A cover page should give the title of the paper, the authors' names, addresses, institutional affiliations, telephone numbers, fax numbers, and email addresses. The first page of the manuscript should include the title of the paper and an abstract of 100-150 words. The abstract should not contain formulas. Do not include author information in the submitted paper, except on the cover page. Make papers as concise and brief as possible.
Review Process
The goal of s review process is to evaluate the accuracy and significance of the submitted manuscripts and to provide the authors with constructive and timely feedback. All submissions are to be reviewed for overall fit according to the Mission of the Journal. All papers are refereed through a double blind process by at least three members of the International Editorial Review Board of the Journal. The Journal requests that all referees complete their reviews within 6 weeks in order to permit prompt feedback to the authors. Revised papers should be reviewed within 4 weeks. Return of a manuscript to the author(s) for revision does not guarantee acceptance of the manuscript for publication. The final decision will be based upon the comments of the reviewers and Associates Editors, upon their final review of the revised manuscript.
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