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International Journal of<br />
<strong>Information</strong> <strong>and</strong><br />
<strong>Decision</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong><br />
© 2013 <strong>Inderscience</strong> Enterprises Ltd
Scope of the Journal<br />
In today’s fast-paced business environment, even with an abundance of<br />
information, decision-making can be complex <strong>and</strong> slow. As floods of data emerge,<br />
effective information processing is sought as a panacea. Since we have lots of data,<br />
yet are starved for knowledge, the use of innovative techniques is sought as a cure.<br />
With the ever-present spectre of uncertainty, the need for a sound decision is the<br />
objective. As a consequence of these various conflicts <strong>and</strong> dilemmas, the<br />
employment of efficient data management, leading to better decision-making, is the<br />
goal.<br />
Subject coverage:<br />
Subject coverage includes but is not limited to:<br />
• AHP or DEA<br />
• Behavioural sciences<br />
• Business intelligence<br />
• Computing <strong>and</strong> decision sciences<br />
• Data-driven decision making<br />
• <strong>Decision</strong> making in social setting<br />
• <strong>Decision</strong> making under uncertainty<br />
• <strong>Decision</strong> making with multimedia<br />
• <strong>Decision</strong> support systems <strong>and</strong> software<br />
• <strong>Decision</strong> theory<br />
• <strong>Decision</strong> trees<br />
• Economics<br />
• Ethical decision making<br />
• Fuzzy information processing<br />
• Game theory<br />
• Grid analysis<br />
• Group decision making <strong>and</strong> software<br />
• Informatics<br />
• <strong>Information</strong> technology<br />
• Intelligent agents technologies<br />
• Knowledge discovery in databases<br />
• Mathematics of decision sciences<br />
• Methods of decision making<br />
• Morphological analysis<br />
• Multiple criteria decision making (MCDM)<br />
• Neural networks<br />
• Online analytical processing (OLAP)<br />
• Perspectives of decision making<br />
• Political decision making<br />
• Psychology<br />
• Public decision making<br />
• Risk management<br />
• Robust decisions<br />
• Scenario analysis<br />
• Sociology<br />
• Statistics<br />
• Styles of decision making<br />
• System analysis<br />
• Web search<br />
International Journal of<br />
<strong>Information</strong> <strong>and</strong><br />
<strong>Decision</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong><br />
www.inderscience.com/ijids<br />
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Members of the Editorial Board<br />
Editor-in-Chief<br />
John Wang<br />
Montclair State University, USA<br />
Associate Editors<br />
Francisco Javier Lloréns Montes<br />
University of Granada, Spain<br />
Dirk Christian Mattfeld<br />
Technische Universität<br />
Braunschweig, Germany<br />
Clive Morley<br />
RMIT University, Australia<br />
Srinivas Talluri<br />
Michigan State University, USA<br />
Abbott Weiss<br />
Massachusetts Institute of<br />
Technology, USA<br />
AMERICAN EDITOR<br />
Vittal Prabhu<br />
Penn State University, USA<br />
JAPANESE EDITOR<br />
Takayuki Osogami<br />
IBM Japan<br />
EUROPEAN EDITOR<br />
Hans-Henrik Hvolby<br />
Aalborg University, Denmark<br />
FAR EAST EDITOR<br />
Tiaojun Xiao<br />
Nanjing University, China<br />
SOUTH AMERICAN EDITOR<br />
Manuel Mora<br />
Autonomous University of<br />
Aguascalientes, Mexico<br />
Editorial Board<br />
Hamid Alinejad-Rokny<br />
University of Newcastle, Australia<br />
Yohanan Arzi<br />
ORT Braude College, Israel<br />
Francesca Beccacece<br />
Università Luigi Bocconi, Italy<br />
Laird Burns<br />
Michigan State University, USA<br />
Ferhan Cebi<br />
Istanbul Technical University, Turkey<br />
Shing I Chang<br />
Kansas State University, USA<br />
Chin-I Chiang<br />
Hsuan Chuang University, Taiwan<br />
Wen Cheong Chin<br />
Multimedia University, Malaysia<br />
Richard Cho<br />
University of New Brunswick in Saint<br />
John, Canada<br />
Sohyung Cho<br />
Southern Illinois University<br />
Edwardsville, USA<br />
Yuval Cohen<br />
The Open University of Israel, Israel<br />
Lawrence F. Cunningham<br />
University of Colorado at Denver <strong>and</strong><br />
Health <strong>Sciences</strong> Center, USA<br />
Tugrul U. Daim<br />
Portl<strong>and</strong> State University, USA<br />
Haluk Demirkan<br />
Arizona State University, USA<br />
Matt Drake<br />
Duquesne University, USA<br />
Ali Ebrahimnejad<br />
Islamic Azad University, Iran<br />
Bernard Espinasse<br />
Aix-Marseille University, France<br />
Tianjun Feng<br />
University of California, Irvine, USA<br />
Peter Fettke<br />
Institute for <strong>Information</strong> Systems,<br />
DFKI, Germany<br />
Petr Fiala<br />
University of Economics Prague,<br />
Czech Republic<br />
Jean-Marc Frayret<br />
Polytechnique Montréal, Canada<br />
Jan Frick<br />
University of Stavanger, Norway<br />
Lars Friedrich<br />
Commerzbank AG , Germany<br />
Pedro Furtado<br />
University of Coimbra, Portugal<br />
James H. Gerlach<br />
University of Colorado at Denver,<br />
USA<br />
Natheer Gharaibeh<br />
Al-Balqa Applied University, Jordan<br />
Jorge F.S. Gomes<br />
Technical University of Lisbon,<br />
Portugal<br />
Evangelos Grigoroudis<br />
Technical University of Crete, Greece<br />
Robert W. Grubbström<br />
Linköping Institute of Technology,<br />
Sweden<br />
Peijun Guo<br />
Yokohama National University, Japan<br />
Aparna Gupta<br />
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,<br />
USA<br />
J. Michael Hardin<br />
University of Alabama, USA<br />
Seetha Hari<br />
VIT University, India<br />
Minjoon Jun<br />
New Mexico State University, USA<br />
Damir Kalpic<br />
University of Zagreb, Croatia<br />
Tauno Kekale<br />
University Of Vaasa, Finl<strong>and</strong><br />
Moutaz Khouja<br />
University of North Carolina at<br />
Charlotte, USA<br />
Kaïs Khrouf<br />
University of Sfax, Tunisia<br />
Gerald Kobylski<br />
West Point US Military Academy,<br />
USA<br />
Christopher J. Koroneos<br />
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki,<br />
Greece<br />
Hsun-Ming (Sam) Lee<br />
Texas State University-San Marcos,<br />
USA<br />
Thomas Lee<br />
University of Illinois, USA<br />
Jochen Leidner<br />
Thomson Reuters Corporation <strong>and</strong><br />
Linguit Ltd., USA<br />
Janet Light<br />
University of New Brunswick - Saint<br />
John, Canada<br />
Jie Lu<br />
University of Technology, Sydney,<br />
Australia<br />
Chaoqun Ma<br />
Hunan University, China<br />
Lijun Ma<br />
The Chinese University of Hong<br />
Kong, 2 Hong Kong<br />
Iraj Mahdavi<br />
Maz<strong>and</strong>aran University of Science<br />
<strong>and</strong> Technology, Iran, Islamic<br />
Republic of<br />
Fern<strong>and</strong>o Marins<br />
UNESP - Sao Paulo State University<br />
Department of Production, Brazil<br />
Sathasivam Mathiyalakan<br />
Winston Salem State University,<br />
USA<br />
Marcin Matuszewski<br />
Nokia Research Center, Finl<strong>and</strong><br />
José Andrés Moreno Pérez<br />
University of La Laguna, Spain<br />
Magdi Moustafa<br />
American University in Cairo,<br />
Egypt<br />
Seong-Hyun Nam<br />
University of North Dakota, USA<br />
Thomas J. Owens<br />
Brunel University, UK<br />
Ertunga C. Ozelkan<br />
University of North Carolina at<br />
Charlotte, USA<br />
Ping-Feng Pai<br />
National Chi Nan University, Taiwan<br />
Olga Pilipczuk<br />
Szczecin University, Pol<strong>and</strong><br />
Vadlamani Ravi<br />
Institute for Development &<br />
Research in Banking Technology,<br />
India<br />
Carl M. Rebman Jr.<br />
University of San Diego, USA<br />
Ana Respício<br />
University of Lisbon, Portugal<br />
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Pekka Ruotsalainen<br />
National Research <strong>and</strong> Development<br />
Centre for Welfare <strong>and</strong> Health<br />
(STAKES), Finl<strong>and</strong><br />
Lauri Salmivalli<br />
Turku School of Economics, Finl<strong>and</strong><br />
Marc Schniederjans<br />
University of Nebraska-Lincoln,<br />
USA<br />
Nazrul I. Shaikh<br />
Penn State University, USA<br />
Chung-Chi Shen<br />
National Chiayi University, Taiwan<br />
Sarbjit Singh<br />
IMT, Nagpur, India<br />
Ronggong Song<br />
Defence R&D Canada, Canada<br />
R.K. Srivastava<br />
University of Mumbai, India<br />
Ahmad Syamil<br />
Arkansas State University, USA<br />
Silvana Trimi<br />
University of Nebraska - Lincoln,<br />
USA<br />
Costas Tsatsoulis<br />
University of North Texas, USA<br />
Ranga Raju Vatsavai<br />
Oak Ridge National Laboratory,<br />
(ORNL), USA<br />
Liya Wang<br />
University Affiliated Research Center<br />
(UARC), USA<br />
Wen-Li Wang<br />
Penn State Erie, USA<br />
Gary R. Weckman<br />
Ohio University, USA<br />
Jie Wu<br />
University of Science <strong>and</strong><br />
Technology of China, China<br />
Mudasser F. Wyne<br />
National University, USA<br />
Ruiliang Yan<br />
Virginia State University, USA<br />
Tao Yao<br />
Pennsylvania State University, USA<br />
William A. Young II<br />
Ohio University, USA<br />
Zuopeng (Justin) Zhang<br />
State University of New York at<br />
Plattsburgh, USA<br />
Ling Zhu<br />
Long Isl<strong>and</strong> University, USA<br />
Constantin Zopounidis<br />
France <strong>and</strong> Technical University of<br />
Crete, Greece
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What the Editors say<br />
about IJIDS<br />
I view <strong>Information</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Decision</strong> Science as one of the<br />
most important topics in the global world where huge<br />
amounts of information needs to be filtered <strong>and</strong><br />
juxtaposed for any person or organisation to make the<br />
best decisions<br />
Hans-Henrik Hvolby, Professor in Supply Chain<br />
Integration, Aalborg University, Denmark<br />
Technology to collect <strong>and</strong> process information is<br />
following Moore’s Law. This needs to be coupled with<br />
sound tools <strong>and</strong> techniques for making decisions <strong>and</strong><br />
provide good “return on information”. IJIDS would<br />
serve as a leading forum across multiple disciplines<br />
around the world.<br />
Dr. Vittal Prabhu, Marcus Department of Industrial<br />
<strong>and</strong> Manufacturing Engineering, Penn State<br />
University, USA<br />
With the globalization of economic activities, the<br />
decisions of firms become more <strong>and</strong> more complex.<br />
A good decision means that a firm makes a fast <strong>and</strong><br />
accurate reaction to the changes of the environment,<br />
especially the changes of the competitors’ strategies.<br />
The development of the information technology<br />
provides an effective tool for the decision-making of<br />
firms. I believe that IJIDS can provide a good platform<br />
for exchanging the ideas on information <strong>and</strong><br />
decisions <strong>and</strong> will become a leading journal.<br />
Tiaojun Xiao, School of Management Science <strong>and</strong><br />
Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing China<br />
I am pleased <strong>and</strong> excited to be involved in the<br />
launching of the IJIDS. It is great to be part of a<br />
journal with such a wide, multidisciplinary <strong>and</strong> open<br />
perspective on how to best use <strong>and</strong> present<br />
knowledge from the masses of data we swim in<br />
nowadays.<br />
Professor Clive Morley, Academic Director,<br />
Graduate School of Business, RMIT University,<br />
Australia<br />
The availability of massive data is changing the way<br />
decisions are made in today's businesses. IJIDS<br />
covers both emerging <strong>and</strong> classical subjects in the<br />
area of information <strong>and</strong> decision sciences <strong>and</strong> it will<br />
be a forum that makes innovation in how decisions<br />
are made in today's <strong>and</strong> future business environment.<br />
Takayuki Osogami, Ph.D., IBM Tokyo Research<br />
Lab., Japan<br />
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