jp2r+@andrew.cmu.edu (James M. Peters) (09/18/90)
CALL FOR PAPERS
DECISION MAKING, COGNITIVE SCIENCE AND ACCOUNTING CONFERENCE
You are invited to submit completed manuscripts for presentation in workshop
sessions at a forthcoming conference entitled "Decision Making, Cognitive
Science and Accounting." The conference will be held on July 19 and 20, 1991 atCarnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. The conference is co-sponsored bythe School of Urban and Public Affairs, Carnegie Mellon University; the Katz
Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh; and Accounting,
Organizations and Society (AOS), a major international accounting research
journal based at the London School of Economics. AOS will publish the invited
papers and selected workshop papers in a special issue.
The conference will consist of workshop sessions and a series of invited papers
on: 1) decision theoretical approaches for studying decision making in
accounting, 2) cognitive science approaches for studying decision making in
accounting, 3) effects of expert systems on accounting and auditing practice, 4)methodological and theoretical issues in artificial intelligence and their
relevance to decision making research in accounting, and 5) analyses of the
above presentations.
Some of the scholars and practitioners who have agreed to present invited papersinclude:
B. Chandrasekaran, Director of the Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence
Research, Department of Computer and Information Science, The Ohio State
University.
Richard Fikes, Director of Knowledge Based Systems, Price Waterhouse Technology
Centre, Menlo Park, CA.
Robin Hogarth, Graduate School of Business and Center for Decision Research,
University of Chicago.
Paul Johnson, Professor of Management Science, Carlson School of Management and
Center for Research in Human Learning, University of Minnesota.
Robert Libby, Professor of Accounting, Johnson Graduate School of Management,
Cornell University.
The deadline for submission is April 19, 1991. Address inquiries or send papersto:
Professor James M. Peters
School of Urban and Public Affairs
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
(412) 268-8473
jp2r@andrew.cmu.edu
Manuscript Guidelines:
Papers submitted or published elsewhere will not be considered for presentation
at the conference. Papers accepted for workshop presentation will be printed inthe proceedings of the conference and will be submitted through the normal
review process to AOS for potential publication.