Check http://www.icdss2011.org/ -- deadline extended to 
March 1, 2011

                       DSS News
                 D. J. Power, Editor
         February 27, 2011 -- Vol. 12, No. 5

     A Free Bi-Weekly Publication of DSSResources.COM
             approximately 2,100 subscribers


In this issue:

1) Do DSS builders assume their targeted users are rational thinkers?

2) DSS Conferences/Call for Papers

3) Recent DSS News Headlines

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1) Do DSS builders assume their targeted users are rational thinkers?

by Dan Power
Editor, DSSResources.com 

Attitudes that we, as DSS builders, have toward potential users of 
a proposed DSS influences our design choices, but we also need to 
be realistic about the biases and limitations of our targeted users. 
Are our targeted users rational?

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2) DSS Conferences/Call for Papers

1. Call for papers: ICDSS 2011 - International Conference on 
DSS, June 6-7, 2011, Tilburg University, the Netherlands, due 
March 1, 2011. Check http://www.icdss2011.org/ .

2. Call for papers: AMCIS Business Intelligence and Knowledge 
Management track in Detroit August 4-7, 2011, due February 28th.
Check http://amcis2011.aisnet.org/.

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3) Recent DSS News Headlines

02/26/2011 Call for papers: Special issue of IJDSST on DMSS Development 
Methodologies: a Software Systems Engineering Approach, due May 31, 2011.

02/25/2011 Emanuel campaign relied on NationalField for real-time 
communication.

02/24/2011 Deutsche Postbank AG London Branch turns to IBM Smart Analytics 
for insights on credit risk. 

02/24/2011 Teradata Active Enterprise Data Warehouse selected for 
Southern California Edison’s Smart Metering program.

02/23/2011 Call for Papers: International Journal of Business Intelligence 
Research (IJBIR). 

02/17/2011 IBM to collaborate with Nuance to apply IBM's 'Watson' analytics 
technology to healthcare. 

02/16/2011 University of Colorado Denver Business School expands use of 
MicroStrategy's Business Intelligence software.

02/16/2011 Aviva chooses Teradata for Pan European enterprise intelligence 
platform.

02/14/2011 Next big thing in data analytics: no more physical cubes.

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