The submission deadline has been extended to Friday, May 27, 2005.

Submission Instructions

Email your paper to cist05sub@gmail.com. Your email subject line should be “CIST2005 paper submission”. Papers should either be in Word or RTF (rich text format) files. Any other formats, such as TEX or LaTEX should be converted to Word or RTF format before submission.

Alternatively, you can also email your paper to any of the three co-chairs at:

Indranil Bardhan, Univ. of Texas at Dallas, bardhan@utdallas.edu
Alok Gupta, University of Minnesota, gupta037@tc.umn.edu
Paul Tallon, Boston College, paul.tallon@bc.edu

Submission and Review Deadlines

Papers should be submitted no later than Monday, May 23, 2005. Authors will be notified of the referee decision no later than Monday, August 8, 2005. Final copies of accepted manuscripts are due no later than Tuesday, September 6, 2005.

Submission guidelines

Papers should follow the guidelines specified below:
Submitted papers must conform to guidelines used in the journal Management Science. Among the most important are:
Papers should be 32 pages max, all inclusive, printable on 8.5 x 11-inch paper, 12-point font, one-inch margins on four sides. Double-spaced throughout, including abstract and references

A non-mathematical abstract (as understandable to readers as possible) of not more than 200 words is also required, along with keywords.