<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>

    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
  </head>
  <body>
    <p>***apologies for cross-postings***</p>
    <p><br>
    </p>
    <h1
style="margin-top:4.15pt;margin-right:64.9pt;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:
64.9pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt" align="center"><span lang="PL">CALL<span
          style="letter-spacing:
-.1pt"> </span>FOR<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>PAPERS</span></h1>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin: 0.2pt 64.9pt 0.0001pt 65pt; line-height: 97%;"
      align="center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:97%"
          lang="PL">Hawaii
          International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-58), Hilton
          Waikoloa
          Village, Big Island, Hawaii, January 7-10, 2025, <span
            style="letter-spacing:
-2.15pt"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></span></b><span
        lang="PL"><a href="http://www.hicss.org/"><b
            style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:97%;color:windowtext">http://www.hicss.org/</span></b></a></span><b
        style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:97%" lang="PL"></span></b></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 9.15pt 64.9pt 0.0001pt;"
      align="center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
          style="font-size:16.0pt" lang="PL">Decision
          Analytics and Service Science Track</span></b></p>
    <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:0cm;text-indent:0cm"
      align="center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
          style="font-size:11.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt" lang="PL"> </span></b></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin: 0.05pt 22.05pt 0.0001pt 20.95pt;" align="center"><span
        style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="PL">Intelligent Decision Support
        for Logistics and
        Supply Chain Management</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin: 0.05pt 22.05pt 0.0001pt 20.95pt;" align="center"><b
        style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
          style="font-size:10.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt" lang="PL"> </span></b></p>
    <p class="MsoBodyText"
style="margin-top:.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:0cm"
      align="center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt"
          lang="PL"> </span></b></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 5.6pt;" align="center"><b
        style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
          style="font-size:10.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt" lang="PL">Mini-track<span
            style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>co-chairs:<span
            style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Julia Pahl and Stefan
          Voß</span></b></p>
    <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:0cm;text-indent:0cm"><b
        style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
          style="font-size:11.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt" lang="PL"> </span></b></p>
    <p class="MsoBodyText"
style="margin-top:.05pt;margin-right:5.3pt;margin-bottom:
0cm;margin-left:5.6pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
0cm"><span style="color:#2F3033" lang="PL">Information technology (IT)
        and
        information systems (IS) are prerequisites and enablers for
        successful supply
        chain management (SCM). With related advances, the logistics and
        SCM field is
        developing very dynamically. Business-to-business transactions
        are made via the
        Internet and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems support
        managing the
        transactional information within the enterprise. Cooperation and
        coordination
        are only possible based on IT and IS. While IT and IS are vital
        components in
        supply chains, their successful management rests on intelligent
        and coordinated
        decision making throughout the logistics network. Intelligent
        decision support
        and decision analytics using advanced decision technologies and
        analytics
        methodology are of utmost importance in logistics and SCM. </span></p>
    <p class="MsoBodyText"
style="margin-top:.05pt;margin-right:5.3pt;margin-bottom:
0cm;margin-left:5.6pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
0cm"><span style="color:#2F3033" lang="PL"> </span></p>
    <p class="MsoBodyText"
style="margin-top:.05pt;margin-right:5.3pt;margin-bottom:
0cm;margin-left:5.6pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
0cm"><span style="color:#2F3033" lang="PL">The minitrack features
        information
        systems, theoretical developments and real-world applications
        related to
        intelligent problem solving in logistics and supply chain
        management. This also
        incorporates issues related to digital transformation in this
        area. Methods
        include optimization, heuristics, metaheuristics, and
        matheuristics,
        simulation, agent technologies, and descriptive as well as
        predictive methods.
        Recent advances incorporating big data, cloud computing,
        artificial intelligence,
        and in general machine learning are especially welcome.</span><span
        lang="PL"></span></p>
    <p class="MsoBodyText"
style="margin-top:.05pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:0cm"><span
        lang="PL"> </span></p>
    <p class="MsoBodyText"
style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:5.4pt;margin-bottom:
0cm;margin-left:5.6pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
0cm"><span style="color:#2F3033" lang="PL">The main objective of this
        mini-track
        is to provide, discuss, and highlight recent trends and
        developments in the
        area of logistics and SCM solutions both for the scientific
        community as well
        as practitioners.</span></p>
    <p class="MsoBodyText"
style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:5.4pt;margin-bottom:
0cm;margin-left:5.6pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
0cm"><span style="color:#2F3033" lang="PL"> </span></p>
    <p class="MsoBodyText"
style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:5.4pt;margin-bottom:
0cm;margin-left:5.6pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
0cm"><span style="color:#2F3033" lang="PL">We seek papers dealing with
        decision
        analytics, business intelligence, big data, cloud computing, and
        decision
        technologies which contribute to intelligent decision support in
        the whole
        field of logistics and in all categories of SCM. This includes
        but is not
        restricted to simulation, optimization, heuristics,
        metaheuristics, agent
        technologies, decision analytics, descriptive models, and data
        mining. Recent
        advances in data science, machine learning and artificial
        intelligence
        successfully complement these methods. We are especially
        interested in
        real-world applications and in information systems and software
        solutions which
        assist in solving decision problems. This is extended towards,
        e.g.,
        computational logistics, advanced planning systems, and the
        intelligent use of
        ERP systems. Also, conceptual ideas, reports on projects in
        progress, and case
        studies are welcome. Moreover, teaching cases both at the
        university as well as
        the executive level may be of interest.</span></p>
    <p class="MsoBodyText"
style="margin-top:.4pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:0cm"><span
        lang="PL"> </span></p>
    <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:5.6pt;text-indent:0cm"><span
        lang="PL">Important<span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>dates<span
          style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span><a
          href="https://hicss.hawaii.edu/"><span
style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:
none;text-underline:none">(</span><span style="color:blue">https://hicss.hawaii.edu/</span><span
style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">)</span></a>:</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:41.6pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:
l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric ideograph-other"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;mso-font-width:99%"
        lang="PL"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span
            style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">        
          </span></span></span><span
        style="font-size:10.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt" lang="PL">June 15, 2024 | 11:59 pm HST:      
          <span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>                 Paper
        submission deadline</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:41.6pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:
l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric ideograph-other"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;mso-font-width:99%"
        lang="PL"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span
            style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">        
          </span></span></span><span
        style="font-size:10.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt" lang="PL">August 17, 2024 | 11:59 pm HST:    
         <span style="mso-tab-count:1">                </span>Notification
        of
        acceptance/rejection</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:41.6pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:
l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric ideograph-other"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;mso-font-width:99%"
        lang="PL"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span
            style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">        
          </span></span></span><span
        style="font-size:10.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt" lang="PL">September 22, 2024|11:59 pm HST: <span
          style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>                Deadline for
        authors to submit final manuscript
        for publication</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:41.6pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:
l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric ideograph-other"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;mso-font-width:99%"
        lang="PL"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span
            style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">        
          </span></span></span><span
        style="font-size:10.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt" lang="PL">October 1, 2024 | 11:59 pm HST:    
         <span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>               Deadline
        for at least one author of each paper
        to register</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:41.6pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:
l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric ideograph-other"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;mso-font-width:99%"
        lang="PL"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span
            style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">        
          </span></span></span><span
        style="font-size:10.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt" lang="PL">January 7-10, 2025<span
          style="mso-tab-count:2">                                      
            </span>     HICSS
        Conference</span></p>
    <p class="MsoBodyText"
style="margin-top:.2pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:0cm"><span
        style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt" lang="PL"> </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:7.1pt"><b
        style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;
color:#2F3033" lang="PL">Mini-track<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>Co-Chairs:</span></b><b
        style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
          style="font-size:10.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt" lang="PL"></span></b></p>
    <p class="MsoBodyText"
style="margin-top:.05pt;margin-right:335.35pt;margin-bottom:
0cm;margin-left:6.4pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:0cm"><b
        style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="color:#2F3033"
          lang="PL">Julia
          Pahl </span></b><span style="color:#2F3033" lang="PL">(Primary
        Contact)<span style="letter-spacing:.05pt"> </span><br>
      </span></p>
    <p class="MsoBodyText"
style="margin-top:.05pt;margin-right:335.35pt;margin-bottom:
0cm;margin-left:6.4pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:0cm"><span
        style="color:#2F3033" lang="PL">University<span
          style="letter-spacing:
-.3pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>University
        of
        Southern Denmark</span></p>
    <p class="MsoBodyText"
style="margin-top:.05pt;margin-right:335.35pt;margin-bottom:
0cm;margin-left:6.4pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:0cm"><span
        lang="PL"><a href="mailto:celina.olszak@ue.katowice.pl"><span
            style="color:blue">julp@iti.sdu.dk</span></a></span></p>
    <p class="MsoBodyText"
style="margin-top:.25pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:0cm"><span
        style="font-size:5.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt" lang="PL"> </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:4.95pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
0cm;margin-left:6.4pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:11.45pt;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-size:
10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;color:#2F3033" lang="PL">Stefan </span></b><b
        style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
          style="font-size:10.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt" lang="PL">Voß, </span></b><span
        style="color:#2F3033" lang="PL"><br>
      </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:4.95pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
0cm;margin-left:6.4pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:11.45pt;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly"><span style="color:#2F3033" lang="PL">University<span
          style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>of<span
          style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>Hamburg,<span
          style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Germany, <br>
      </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:4.95pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
0cm;margin-left:6.4pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:11.45pt;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly"><u style="text-underline:
blue"><span style="color:blue" lang="PL"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:stefan.voss@uni-hamburg.de">stefan.voss@uni-hamburg.de</a></span></u></p>
  </body>
</html>