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on Replication Research. He is Program Co-Chair for AMCIS2016 and has held leadership positions for numerous international IS conferences, including Track Chair for Security and Privacy at AMCIS2015 (Puerto Rico), ICIS2013 (Milan), ECIS2012 (Barcelona), and DSI2008; Program Chair for WISE2007 and WISP2009; Program Chair for the 2009 IFIP Workshop on IS Security Research; AE at ICIS four times (Security Track); Track Chair at DSI three times (Security Track in 2008); and Program Committee member of over a dozen international conferences (IFIP, WISP, WEB, WITS, ICEIS, etc.). Dr. Warkentin is the Chair of the UN-sponsored IFIP Working Group on Information Systems Security Research (WG8.11/11.13) and the AIS Security Coordinator. In 2014, he chaired the search committee to select the Editor of the Decision Sciences Journal. He has Guest Edited several journal special issues, including two issues of EJIS. He is AE for a special issue of Information Systems Research and a recent ad hoc SE for MISQ. He also currently serves on the board of the Journal of Computer Information Systems and the editorial advisory board of Information Management & Computer Security.



Dr. Warkentin has served as a consultant to numerous companies and organizations and has been a featured speaker at almost 200 industry association meetings, executive development seminars, and academic conferences. He has been a Lecturer at the Army Logistics Management College and was named a "National Distinguished Lecturer" by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He has been a visiting professor or an invited speaker at more than 25 universities around the world, including Georgia State, Indiana, LSU, Florida State, Clemson, USF, Copenhagen Business School, McMaster, Fudan, Oulu, Jyväskylä, Zhejiang, Cape Town, and others. He has earned various recognitions for his teaching at every level, from intro courses to doctoral research seminars-his primary focus has been teaching Systems Analysis classes and Research Design seminars. His research has been funded by the UN, NSF, IBM, NSA, DoD, U.S. Navy, Homeland Security, and others. He was previously on the faculty at George Mason University and held the Reisman Research Professorship at Northeastern University in Boston, where he was also the Director of MIS and e-commerce programs at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. Professor Warkentin's Ph.D. in MIS is from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He can be reached at m.warkentin@msstate.edu.



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The Decision Sciences Institute (DSI) is an independent nonprofit educational multidisciplinary professional organization of academicians and practitioners interested in the application of quantitative and behavioral approaches to all managerial decision making in business, government, and society.



Through national, international, and regional conferences; competitions; and publications, DSI provides an international forum for presenting and sharing research in the study of decision processes across disciplines. DSI also plays a vital role in the academic community by offering professional development activities and job placement services.



Five regional subdivisions in the United States, as well as regions representing Europe, Mexico, Asia-Pacific, and the Indian subcontinent, operate independently within DSI. Each region has its own elected officers and holds annual meetings.



DSI's members specialize in functional areas such as information systems, finance, marketing, management, accounting, manufacturing/service management, supply chain management, and decision support processes, as well as institutional areas such as healthcare, public administration, resource management, and higher education. They employ leading rigorous research techniques, including experimental designs, empirical quantitative analysis, optimization, simulation, surveys, and other scientific methods, while also valuing innovative methodological horizons.



DSI's goals are to:

1. Enrich the diverse disciplines of the decision sciences
2. Integrate these disciplines into bodies of knowledge that are effectively utilized for decision making
3. Develop theoretical bases for such fundamental processes as implementation, planning, and design of decision systems
4. Improve educational programs in the decision sciences