PRE-ICIS SIGDSA SYMPOSIUM

The Association for Information Systems (www.aisnet.org) is "the premier global organization for academics specializing in Information Systems." AIS is an "international organization that seeks to identify, extend, unify, and communicate knowledge in information technology (IT), systems (IS), and management (IM)." In the past 10 years a number of Information Systems groups have merged with AIS. In January 2001, the ISWorld mailing list announced that the Association for Information Systems Board of Directors had decided to create Special Interest Groups (SIGs) in broadly defined IS research areas and requested proposals. DSS News of February 11, 2001 sought responses from people interested in forming an "AIS special interest group related to data management and decision support". Dan Power's DSS News column of March 3, 2002 summarizes the founding of SIG DSS. AIS Council approved SIG DSS in mid-December 2001. Six AIS members, S. Alter, J. Courtney, R. Sharda, V. Sugumaran, M. Turoff,..