Practicing professionals and students from the academia, government, industry and research establishments as well as members from the student community are invited to submit competitive papers, proposals for symposia, tutorials, and/or workshops on current topics in all areas of decision sciences at ICGIDS 2009.

For a complete list of abstracts of presentations to be made at ICGIDS 2009, please click here.

Competitive Papers
Authors may submit competitive papers or abstracts for review. The submission of a competitive paper means the author certifies that the paper has not been copyrighted, published, or, presented (or submitted for presentation) at any other professional forum. Any professional submitting a paper should have the intent to register for and attend the Conference to present the paper, if it is accepted. Outstanding papers will be suitably recognized and rewarded. In case of multiple authors, at least one author should register for the Conference for the submission of the final accepted paper, for it to appear in the Conference program schedule.

Student Papers
Papers submitted in the student track (and thus considered in the student paper competition) should be solely of student authorship. The Conference (Registration) fee is waived for those students whose papers are accepted. Students will not be reimbursed any travel expenses by the Conference organizers. Student papers will be subject to the same review process as with the papers from other sources. All student papers accepted by the referees will be scheduled in the program.

Symposia, Tutorials, and Workshops
Any potential participant wishing to conduct a symposium, tutorial, or workshop, should submit a summary of at least two pages, demonstrating the importance of the theme to the members of the ISDSI and the participants of the Conference. The guidelines given below for submissions are to be followed. Considerable latitude and flexibility is, however allowed, as to the content and conduct of the sessions. Need for any specific equipment and/or audio-visual aids should be taken care of, by the presenters themselves. All participants of the symposia, tutorials, and workshops too should register and attend the Conference.

The 3rd ISDSI Conference will select papers based on a peer review of the full paper. Length of papers should not exceed six pages. Authors intending to submit a paper to the Conference should send an extended abstract not exceeding 2 printed pages by July 15, 2009.

A soft copy of the abstract may be submitted by email to: Conf1209@asci.org.in and Conf1209@gmail.com

Full text papers / abstracts should be submitted in Microsoft Word, in double line space, on one side of A4 size sheets, in Times New Roman, 12 font size.

Decision on acceptance of the papers will be communicated within one month from the submission of the abstract / full text paper. Final camera-ready paper should be submitted by email or CD-ROM.

Primary (first named) authors will receive a detailed advisory on paper presentations, by late August 2009.

The ISDSI would publish the Conference proceedings containing all papers and abstracts presented, as well as a summary of all symposia, tutorials, workshops etc. Publication in the Proceedings would subject to a set of norms and deadlines, as would be communicated in due course.