We invite you to join us for the 2008 DSI Annual Meeting, to be held November 22-25 in Baltimore, Maryland, at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel. The conference theme is “Improving Competitiveness through Information and Decision Sciences.” We invite basic, applied, theory, and case study research in the field of decision making, as well as proposals for panel discussions, symposia, workshops, and tutorials dealing with research or pedagogical issues.

See the current news publication for feature articles such as Under-researched: Operations Management Interfaces, by Danny Samson, Department of Management and Marketing, University of Melbourne, Australia; OpenID: A Potential Authentication Technology, by Timothy DiVito, Rutgers University; Isn’t It Time to Stop Making Clones of Ourselves?, by George E. Stevens, College of Business Administration, Kent State University; and Is One of these Texts Right for Your Business Forecasting Course?, by Barbara Price and Xiaolong Zhang, Georgia Southern University.

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President-Elect: Ram Narasimhan, Michigan State University
Treasurer: Christine T. Kydd, University of Delaware
At-Large Vice-Presidents:
Robert L. Andrews, Virginia Commonwealth University
Shaw K. Chen, University of Rhode Island
Gary Klein, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Marc Schniederjans, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Asia-Pacific Regionally-Elected Vice President: Linda G. Sprague, Rollins College
Midwest Regionally-Elected Vice President: Gene Fliedner, Oakland University
Northeast Regionally-Elected Vice President: R. Daniel Reid, University of New Hampshire
The ballot tabulation was audited and verified by DATAMATX, Inc. Atlanta, Georgia.

Ram Narasimhan