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GENERAL MEETING INFORMATIONGeneral Meeting Information (Adobe Acrobat PDF Format) Overview of Program (Adobe Acrobat PDF Format) Conference Registration: Registration may be made online or by returning the conference registration form, along with payment covering your registration fees, to the Institute’s Home Office. All registrations must be made or postmarked by October 20, 2003, to avoid a late fee of $20. Requests for cancellation refunds will not be accepted after October 20th. Registration will be held in the Marriott Ballroom of the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel. Registration hours during the conference are:
Hotel Reservation Information: Mail your completed hotel reservation form directly to the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, or you may make your reservations online. The Marriott requires a one night’s deposit to confirm and guarantee your sleeping accommodations. For assured reservations, deposits will be accepted by check, money order, or by the following major credit cards: American Express, Discover, Diners Club, Enroute, JCB, MasterCard, or Visa, with expiration date, and must be received by October 20, 2003. (Reservations after this date -or after the room block is full- are subject to availability.) Failure to submit a deposit can result in cancellation of your reservation by the hotel. If for some reason your plans change, you must cancel your reservations with the hotel 72 hours prior to arrival or you will be billed for the first night’s room charge plus tax. Also, should you be making your reservations without the DSI form, it is necessary that you mention the Decision Sciences Institute in order to secure the special room rates and a room being held within our room block. Check-in time is 3:00 p.m. Check-out time is 12:00 p.m. Marriott Wardman Park Hotel
See online placement instructions. For further information contact: Gerry Campbell, Fairfield University, Charles F. Dolan School of Business, Department of Information Systems and Operations Management, 1073 North Benson Road, Fairfield, CT 06430-5195; phone: (203) 254-4000, ext. 3118/fax: (203) 254-4105/e-mail: gcampbell@mail.fairfield.edu
Please plan to visit the exhibitors’ booths and receive information on the latest books and the newest equipment and software. Course Technology Annual Meeting Welcome Reception: A Welcome Reception will be held on Saturday, November 22, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. in the Foyer of the Marriott Ballroom. This event will be an opportunity to connect with your colleagues early in the Annual Meeting. The reception will be a cash bar with light snacks. Annual General Business Meeting: The Annual General Business Meeting is open to the membership and will be held on Sunday, November 23, from 4:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Presiding are President Barbara B. Flynn, Wake Forest University, and Treasurer Julie E. Kendall, Rutgers University-Camden. Please make every effort to attend this meeting. President’s Reception: The President’s Reception, honoring Barbara B. Flynn, will be held Monday, November 24 , from 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Everyone is encouraged to attend. “The Capitol Steps”: The Institute’s Ad hoc Committee on Social Events for the 2003 Annual Meeting has arranged for The Capitol Steps, a troupe of congressional staffers-turned-comedians, to perform at the Marriott on Monday, November 24, from 6:45 p.m.-7:30 p.m. This is a show that no one will want to miss! For more information about this comedy troupe, go to www.capsteps.com Regional Activities: The Institute’s six Regions are planning to hold separate events in the Marriott on Sunday, November 23, from 4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Please check the Special Events schedule in the final program for the locations of these regional events. Tour Program: HERITAGE TOURS LTD. (HTL) Washington’s foremost tour company operating in the D.C. area since 1976, has been selected by DSI to present an exciting, customized variety of tour programs during our conference week. You may link into their web site from www.decisionsciences.org or go to http://www.heritagetoursltd.com/dsi/ to register for these tours. HTL will be on site at the Marriott to distribute tour tickets for those who have pre-registered and will release additional seats if space is available. 2003 Proceedings Format: The 2003 Annual Meeting Proceedings will be produced in CD-ROM format only. The CD-ROM Proceedings is included in the conference registration fee for all registered attendees who wish to receive the Proceedings. Additional CD-ROM Proceedings can be purchased at the additional cost of $25.00, but must be ordered by no later than October 1, 2003. Local Services: Tours, rental cars, dining, entertainment, babysitting and child care services can be arranged by Heritage Tours, Ltd. which will operate a tour desk in the registration area during the conference. Media Resources: Sessions at the Institute’s Annual Meeting are organized around different types of sessions ranging from paper presentations, workshops, tutorials, to panel discussions. As in the past, each session room will be equipped with a standard overhead projector and screen and a few writing pens. Again this year, the SAP University Alliances and Innovation Institute has made it possible to offer LCD projectors to presenters at the conference. LCD projectors will be available for all presentations free of charge at the DSI Annual Meeting. It is only through the generosity of SAP that we are able to provide this valuable service to our members. The rental cost of providing projectors for the entire program is quite substantial, so please take the time to thank the SAP representatives at the meeting. The Marriott Wardman Park Hotel has a local media company in the hotel. If you would like to rent and pay for other media equipment, you are encouraged to contact Jonathan Holland with Projection Presentation Technology at (202) 328-2982. You should contact Jonathan directly for the specific charges and individual payment arrangements. CPE Credit Available: Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credit will be available to all CPAs attending the 2003 Annual Meeting. CPE forms will be available at the conference registration desk in Washington, D.C. The forms will be similar to those used at AAA national and regional meetings. The “paperboy problem” of the annual meeting meal functions: The registration process for meal functions during the Annual Meeting is really the classic “paperboy” problem of inventory theory. When people pre-register in late spring or the summer, they indicate whether they will attend the Sunday buffet lunch and/or the Tuesday awards luncheon. As the meeting approaches, many change their minds because of airline reservations, or even because of the weather on the day of the meal function. History shows that anywhere from 40 to 91 percent of the people who say they will attend the meal function actually do so. For example, at a recent Institute Annual Meeting, 877 people said they would attend the Tuesday awards luncheon. The Institute committed to the hotel for 625 meals, but only 385 people actually ate a meal. The result was that the Institute was charged $25 for each of the 240 meals not eaten, for a total loss of $4,000. If we had committed for all 877 meals, the loss would have been even larger $12,300. The Board does not believe that we are good stewards for the membership if we allow such waste, and so we seek that illusive middle ground where everyone gets served without too many wasted meals. It is the Institute’s policy that if a person is unable to be seated at a meal function, he or she will be reimbursed if they present the meal ticket to the Institute’s staff at the time of the meal function. CONTRIBUTORS AND SPONSORS The Decision Sciences Institute would like to thank the following institutions and companies for their participation in a number of program and nonprogram activities that will be held during the Institute’s 2003 Annual Meeting. Through their generous contributions a number of special events and program activities were made possible. • Alpha Iota Delta ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS PROGRAM CHAIR, CONSULTANTS AND COORDINATORS: Program Chair Mark M. Davis, Bentley College Associate Program Chair Michael J. Maggard, Northeastern University Proceedings Coordinator Maling Ebrahimpour, Roger Williams University Job Placement Services Coordinator Gerard M. Campbell, Fairfield University Local Arrangements Coordinator Christine T. Kydd, University of Delaware Program Information Technology Coordinator Phillip G. Knutel, Bentley College Program Scheduling Consultant/Coordinator Scott E. Sampson, Brigham Young University Website Coordinator Matthew D. Almeida, Bentley College TRACK AND THEME CHAIRS: Accounting: Theory, Applications and Practice Catherine A. Usoff, Bentley College Case Studies Jeffery S. Harper, Indiana State University DSS/AI/Expert Systems Merrill Warkentin, Mississippi State University E-Business Mohammed H. A. Tafti, Hofstra University Enterprise Systems and Applications (ERP/CRM/Data Mining) Ronald Klimberg, St. Joseph’s University Finance/Financial Management Luis Rivera-Solis, Dowling College Information Systems Chandrashekar D. Challa, Virginia State University Innovative Education Richard D. Metters, Emory University International Business Manoj K. Malhotra, University of South Carolina Manufacturing Management G. Keong Leong, University
of Nevada, Las Vegas Marketing: Theory, Models and Applications Sandra Mottner, Western Washington University MS/OR: Techniques, Models and Applications Young H. Chun, Louisiana State University Organizational Behavior/Organizational Theory Susan M. Bosco, Roger Williams
University Quality and Productivity Shirley A. Hopkins, University of Denver Services Management Paul Mulligan, Babson College Statistics and Decision Analysis Joanne M. Sulek, North Carolina A&T State University Strategy and Policy Willie E. Hopkins, Colorado State University Supply Chain Management Khalid S. Soliman, Hofstra University OTHER COORDINATORS: Conference Coordinator Carol J. Latta, Decision Sciences Institute, Georgia State University Best Case Studies Award Competition Co-Coordinators William Naumes, University
of New Hampshire Curricular Issues Mini-Conferences (Ph.D., MBA and Undergraduate) Co-Coordinators Karen A. Brown, University
of Washington at Bothell Development and Corporate Relations Director Timothy L. Smunt, Wake Forest University Elwood S. Buffa Doctoral Dissertation Award Competition Coordinator Janelle Heineke, Boston University Doctoral Student Consortium Co-Coordinators Kenneth E. Kendall, Rutgers
University Global Development Coordinator Benito E. Flores, Texas A&M University Industry Liaison Coordinator James Salsbury, Bentley College Information Technology Coordinator Subhashish Samaddar, Georgia State University Instructional Innovation Award Competition Coordinator Robert P. Minch, Boise State University Marketing Director Terrell G. Williams, Western Washington University Member Services Coordinator Gary Hackbarth, Iowa State University Professional and Faculty Development Program Co-Coordinators Rohit Verma, University of
Utah Professional Development Program Director Robert E. Markland, University of South Carolina Publications Coordinator Hal Jacobs, Decision Sciences Institute, Georgia State University Regional Strategic Planning Workshop Co-Coordinators Stephanie S. Robbins, University
of North Carolina at Charlotte Social Events Coordinator Madeleine Pullman, Cornell University Technology in the Classroom Mini-Conference Co-Coordinators Daniel R. Heiser, DePaul University Host Institutions The University of Delaware
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