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Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the
Program Chair's Message Welcome to the Proceedings of the 2008 Decision Sciences Institute Annual Meeting. At the conference, we had 24 tracks with a total of 360 sessions representing over 1,100 papers, including regular sessions, panels, workshops and tutorials. The schedule was full, with sessions beginning early on Saturday morning and continuing up until the President’s Luncheon on Tuesday. In addition to the regular sessions, there were four miniconferences, two consortiums and a faculty development program. These included the Curricular Issues Miniconference, coordinated by Vijay R. Kannan; Technology in the Classroom Miniconference, coordinated by William Johnson and Rupak Rauniar; and the Miniconference on Successful Grantsmanship, coordinated by Q. B. Chung and Kristie Seawright. New to DSI meetings we initiated the Doctoral Studies Miniconference, coordinated by Yair Levy, Iram Becerra-Fernandez, and George M. Marakas. We also have the Doctoral Student Consortium, coordinated by Maling Ebrahimpour; and the New Faculty Development Consortium, coordinated by William B. Carper, Carl W. Gooding, and James A. Pope. In addition we had the Professional and Faculty Development Program, coordinated by Binshan Lin. At the closing President’s luncheon, the winners of the Instructional Innovation Award Competition, Best Case Studies Award, and Elwood S. Buffa Doctoral Dissertation Award were announced, and awards presented for the Best Theoretical/Empirical Paper, the Best Application Paper and the Best Student Paper. My thanks go out to the Program Committee, consisting of over 50 DSI members, who worked hard to put together a meeting with challenging content and opportunities to learn from each other. 2008 DSI Program Chair |
