The Decision Sciences Institute 's 2009 Annual Meeting theme is “Celebrating 40 Years of Fellowship, Learning & Advancing the Practice of Decision Making.” 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. Many airlines are offering very low airfares to New Orleans. Please take advantage of these reduced rates in making your travel plans. Reduced hotel guest room rates for the meeting are now available. Please note that the DSI annual meeting is being held a week earlier than usual this year.

Every two years, DSI sponsors an international conference. The 2009 International DSI Meeting will be held June 24-27, 2009, in Nancy, France. Paper submission deadline is February 1, 2009. Program Chair is Minoo Tehrani, Roger Williams University, Bristol, Rhode Island, USA, mtehrani@rwu.edu. For more information, see http://internationaldsi.org/

See the current news publication for feature articles such as Looking ahead to 2009-2010 Board Objectives, by incoming DSI President Ram Narasimhan of Michigan State University; Affect and Decision Making, by Lisa T. Stickney, Merrick School of Business, University of Baltimore; The EU and DSI: From Understanding to Collaboration, by James Beckman, Fulda University of Applied Sciences (Germany); Mixed-mode Modelling—What Is It and How Can It Help?, by Miles G. Nicholls, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia; Mac Appeal: Lessons Learned from Adopting New Technology, by Kenneth E. Kendall, Rutgers University; The Evolution of an International Academic Manufacturing Survey, by Clay Whybark, University of North Carolina, Jack Wacker, Arizona State University, and Chwen Sheu, Kansas State University; Decision Analysis in One Chart, by Gregory S. Parnell, United States Military Academy at West Point; and Wanted: Your Book Reviews, by Vijay R. Kannan, Utah State University.

The 39th Annual Meeting was held in Baltimore from November 22-25, 2008. The online proceedings are arranged such that you can search for any paper based on several criteria. Specifically, you can search by author’s last name, track and paper title, track and session, keywords provided by authors, and finally by the submission numbers.

The Board of Directors of the Decision Sciences Institute is pleased to announce a new journal, Supply Chain Management Research (SCMR), in the broad interdisciplinary area of supply chain management, to be published by John Wiley & Sons. Ram Narasimhan (Michigan State University) and Soumen Ghosh (Georgia Tech) will be the founding co-editors-in-chief.

The primary motivation for DSI to start this journal is the fact that other than a few related practitioner-oriented journals, there is currently no top-tier, scholarly journal dedicated entirely to supply chain management. Since the volume of research and researchers in supply chain management is growing rapidly, this new journal will fulfill the need for a premier outlet for publishing high quality, scholarly research in the supply chain management domain.

The mission of SCMR is to be the premier scholarly research journal in the cross-disciplinary area of supply chain management. To pursue this mission, SCMR will publish papers of the highest quality that make a significant and substantial contribution to advancing the knowledge frontier in the field of supply chain management. Papers suitable for publication in SCMR must demonstrate

• Methodological rigor expected from high-quality scholarly research
• Conceptual, theoretical, and analytical soundness
• Significant contribution towards creating new knowledge or extending existing knowledge and theories

SCMR will seek to publish at least four issues a year. All submissions will be double-blind refereed. The editorial board will follow the department structure, with each key area having a departmental editor. The editorial philosophy of SCMR is such that empirical, conceptual as well as analytical papers will be suitable for submission to the journal. Further elaboration of the editorial policy and review system are currently being finalized. The details of the journal including the editorial board will be published on the DSI website soon. Paper submissions in electronic form will be accepted after August 31, 2009. Please direct your inquiries to one of the co-editors-in-chief.