Call for Papers
The first International Conference on Information Technology and Quantitative
Management (ITQM 2013)
May 16-18, 2013, Dushu Lake Hotel, Suzhou, China
http://www.itqm-meeting.org/index.htm
Theme: Advancing Innovation and Development of IT and Quantitative Management
International Academy of Information Technology and Quantitative Management
(IAITQM) was formally inaugurated on June 3, 2012 with more than 50 founding
members from China, United States, Australia, Japan, Lithuania, Poland, Romania,
Spain, Singapore, South Korea, the Netherlands, Turkey and other countries.
The First International Conference on Information Technology and Quantitative
Management (ITQM 2013), established by IAITQM, will be hold at Suzhou, which
has been praised as “paradise on earth” since ancient times. The city is located in the
south of Jiangsu province in eastern China. Suzhou covers an area of 8,488 km2, with
a population of 6.423 million. With over 4,000 years of written historical records,
Suzhou was entitled one of twenty-four cultural and historic cities by the State
Council. Its network of rivers and canal compose its unique landscape of “small
bridge, flowing water, white wall, black tile, cultural relics and classic gardens”. The
weather in Suzhou during May is pleasant, with an average temperature of 22。C (72。
F) and a low probability of rain.
ITQM 2013 is a global forum for exchanging research findings and case studies that
bridge the latest information technology and quantitative management techniques. It
explores how the use of information technology improves quantitative management
techniques and how the development of management tools can reshape the
development of information technology. It covers all topics in the broad ranges of
information technology and quantitative management including, but not limited to:
 Artificial Intelligence
 Accounting Analysis
 Big Data Issues
 Analytic Hierarchy Process
 Bio Informatics
 Decision Analysis
 Brain Informatics
 Business Intelligence
 Cluster Computing & Performance
 Complex System
 Cloud computing
 Computational Economics
 Data Mining & Web Mining
 Decision Support Systems
 Data Warehouse & Applications
 Enterprise Computing & Evaluation
 Database Keyword Search & Search  Group Decision Making &
Technology
Collaboration
 E-Commerce
 Habitual Domain & Organizational
 Human Computer Interaction
Behavior
 Intelligent Agents Technologies
 Innovations & Management
 Intelligent Data Analysis
 Knowledge Management
 Information Ethics & Legal
 Marketing
Evaluations
 Multi-criteria Decision Making
 Information Retrieval Systems
 Optimization Control & Techniques
 Information Security
 Policy Modeling
 Recommender Systems
 Quality Management
 Social Computing
 Quantitative Finance
 Trustworthy Computing & Software  Risk Management
 Wireless Technology &
 Service Management
Performance
 Visualization & Decision Making
Technical exchanges within the research community will encompass invited keynote
lectures, special sessions, tutorials and workshops, panel discussions as well as poster
presentations. Prospective authors are invited to contribute high-quality papers to
ITQM 2013.
Call for Special Sessions and Workshops
ITQM 2013 Program Committee solicits proposals for special sessions/workshops
within the technical scopes of the Congress. Special sessions/Workshops, to be
organized by internationally recognized experts, aim to bring together researchers in
special focused topics. Papers submitted for special sessions/workshops are to be
peer-reviewed with the same criteria used for the contributed papers. Proposals should
include the session title, a brief description of the scope and motivation, biographic
and contact information of the organizers. Researchers interested in organizing special
sessions are invited to submit formal proposal to the Special Session/Workshop Chair:
Heeseok Lee (hsl@business.kaist.ac.kr) and Yi Peng (pengyicd@gmail.com)
Call for Tutorials
ITQM 2013 will also feature tutorials covering fundamental and advanced topics on
information technology and quantitative management. A tutorial proposal should
include title, outline, expected enrollment, and presenter/organizer biography. We
invite you to submit proposals to the Tutorial Chair: Daniel Berg (dberg@miami.edu)
and Lingfeng Niu (niulfster@gmail.com)
Submission Guidelines
Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or
that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings.
Papers should be at most 8 pages including the bibliography and well-marked
appendices. Papers must be received by the submission deadline. We invite you to
submit your paper to: EasyChair Login Page for ITQM 2013
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=itqm2013
If you have any question for the submission, please contact to Conference Chair:
Peter Wolcott (pwolcott@unomaha) and Yingjie Tian (tianyingjie1213@163.com)
Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the
conference. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by
Elsevier in their new Procedia Computer Science series. Selected best papers will be
published in special issues of high quality journals (Int. J. of Information Technology
and Decision Making, Annals of Optimization and Data Science, and others that are
currently under negotiation).
Important Dates:
Special Session/Workshop Proposal Submission Deadline: November 1, 2012
Special Session/Workshop Decision Notification: November 10, 2012
Paper Submission Deadline: December 25, 2012
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: January 15, 2013
Final Submission due date: February 15, 2013
Tutorial Proposal Submission Deadline: March 1, 2013
Tutorial Proposal Submission Notification: March 15, 2013
Early Registration due date: April 15, 2013
Conference Committee:
Honorary Chair: Siwei Cheng, Walter Scott and James Tian
General Chair: Yong Shi and Youmin Xi
Conference Chair: Peter Wolcott and Yingjie Tian
Organizing Chair: Jianping Li and Zhengxin Chen
Program Chair: Enrique Herrera-Viedma and Gang Kou
Special Sessions and Workshops Chair: Heeseok Lee and Yi Peng
Tutorial Chair: Daniel Berg and Lingfeng Niu
Publications and Proceedings Chair: David Olson and Lean Yu
Awards Chair: Daniel Berg and Yong Shi
Conference Organizers:
Research Center on Fictitious Economy and Data Science, Chinese Academy of
Sciences
Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Institute of Policy and Management, Chinese Academy of Sciences
University of Nebraska at Omaha
China Data Technology (Suzhou) Co., Ltd
Local Committee:
Baocheng Li (Co-chair), Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China
Liansheng Zhou (Co-chair), China Data Technology (Suzhou) Co., Ltd, China
Doug Davies, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China
Xu Peng, China Data Technology (Suzhou) Co., Ltd, China
Ka Lok Man, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China
Qiang Zhang, China Data Technology (Suzhou) Co., Ltd, China
Program Committee:
Fuad Aleskerov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Vassil Alexandrov, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
Hesham Ali, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA
Daniel Berg, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Marian Bubak, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
C. Y. Chang, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Gongmeng Chen, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
Kung H Chen, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, USA
Zhangxin Chen, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA
Siwei Cheng, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Chao-Hsien Chu, Pennsylvania State University, USA
John Chuang, University of California at Berkeley, USA
Huimin Chung, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Frederica Darema, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, USA
Doug Davies, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China
Kalyanmoy Deb, India Institute of Technology, India
Chris Ding, University of Texas at Arlington
Jack Dongarra , University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
Marek J. Druzdzel, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Ioan Dzitac, Agora University, Romania
Shu Cherng Fang, North Carolina State University, USA
Zhaoben Fang, University of Science and Technology, China
Florin Gheorghe Filip, Romanian Academy, Romania
Fred Glover, OptTek Systems, Inc., USA
Michel Grabisch, Paris I, France
Luiz F. Autran M. Gomes, IBMEC, Brazil
Jifa Gu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Haifeng Guo, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA
Kun Guo, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Pankaj Gupta, University of Delhi, India
Peter F. Haddawy, United Nations University, Macau, China
Jing He, Victoria University, Australia
Ted Hong, Beyondbond, Inc., USA
Zheng Hu, China Financial Futures Exchange, China
Chongfu Huang, Beijing Normal University, China
Guimin Huang, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, China
Wenxue Huang, Shantou University, China
Zhimin Huang, Adelphi University, USA
Hiroshi Inoue, Science University of Tokyo, Japan
Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, USA
Deepak Khazanchi, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA
Gang Kou, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
Murat M. Koksalan, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Victoria Kreps, Saint Petersburg Central Economic-Mathematical Institute, Russia
Wikil Kwak, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA
Moussa Larbani, Islamic International University, Malaysia
Cheng-Few Lee, Rutgers University, USA
Heeseok Lee Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Stanley Lee, Kansas State University, USA
Michael Harold Lees, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Aihua Li, Central University of Finance & Economics, China
Baocheng Li, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China
Han-Lin Li, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Jainping Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Shanling Li, McGill University, Canada
Weigang Li, University of Brasilia, Brazil
Xingsen Li, NIT, Zhejiang University, China
Xiaodong Lin, Rutgers University, USA
Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China
Rong Liu, University of California at Los Angeles, USA
Xiaohui Liu, Brunel University, United Kingdom
Aleksey Lobanov, Bank of Russia, Russia
Wen Long, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
David H. Lorenz, Northeastern University, USA
Robert M. Losee, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Alexander V. Lotov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Ka Lok Man, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China
Mike McGinnis, The Peter Kiewit Institute, University of Nebraska, USA
Andreas Merikas, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia
Boris Mirkin, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia
Vadim V. Mottl, Tula State University, Russia
Lingfei Niu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
David L. Olson, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, USA
Yi Peng, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
David Poole, University of British Columbia, Canada
Zhiquan Qi, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Cliff T. Ragsdale, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA
Balasubramaniam Ramesh, Georgia State University, USA
Fuji Ren, The University of Tokushima, Japan
Francisco Ruiz, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
Thomas Saaty, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Ahti Salo, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Isaac D. Scherson, University of California at Irvine, USA
Prakash P. Shenoy, University of Kansas, USA
P.M.A. Sloot, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Roman Slowinski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
David B Smith, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, USA
Paulo de Souza, University of Tasmanian, Australia
Christian Stummer, Bielefeld University, Germany
Minghe Sun, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
Zixiang Tan, Syracuse University, USA
Xijing Tang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Tetsuzo Tanino, Osaka University, Japan
Xin Tian, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Yingjie Tian, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
James Tien, University of Miami, USA
Zenonas Turskis, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania
Gwo-Hshiung Tzeng, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Luis G. Vargas, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Rayford Vaughn, Mississippi State University, USA
Enrique Herrera-Viedma, University of Granada, Spain
Jyrki Wallenius, Aalto University School of Economics, Finland
Hsiao-Fan Wang, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
James Wang, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Shouyang Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Xiaogang Wang, York University, Canada
Peter Wolcott, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA
Chongfeng Wu, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
Chunchi Wu, SUNY University at Buffalo, USA
Jainhong Wu, York University, Canada
Wenfeng Wu, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
Youmin Xi, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China
Weixuan Xu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Yixian Yang, Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications, China
Lean Yu, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China
Philip S. Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Po-lung Yu, University of Kansas, USA
Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania
Milan Zeleny, Fordham University, USA
Chengqi Zhang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Haolan Zhang, NIT, Zhejiang University, China
Lingling Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Peng Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Wen Zhang, Tianjin University, China
Yanchun Zhang, Victoria University, Australia
Yuejing Zhang, Central University of Finance and Economics, China
Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
Xiaofei Zhou, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Zongfang Zhou, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Xingquan Zhu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Yangyong Zhu, Fudan University, China
Kirill Zinkovskiy, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia