1. No. 11, Year 2012
Editorial
EWG-DSS Newsletter by Fátima Dargam, Pascale Zaraté, Rita Ribeiro, Shaofeng Liu, Jorge Hernández
and Boris Delibašić
Newsletter of the EURO Working (Members of the EURO Working Group on DSS Coordination Board)
Group on Decision Support System
Dear Euro Working Group Members! Dear Friends!
In this Issue
In 2012 our group has been as productive as ever! Over the past year the EWG-
Editorial........................................ 1 DSS organized two important events with wide participation from society members
and colleagues outside the group. They are the EWG-DSS Annual Workshop held in
EWG-DSS Members .................... 2 April in Liverpool, UK and the DSS stream of EUROXXV Conference on Operational
Research held in July in Vilnius, Lithuania.
EWG-DSS Channels.................... 2 The group has been extremely productive in publication this year. We
successfully edited 4 journal Special Issues, one Springer book and one workshop
Interview ...................................... 2 proceedings. These are: two Special Issues in International Journal of Decision
Support Systems Technology, one Special Issue in International Journal of
EWG-DSS Award ........................ 5 Information and Decision Science, one Special Issue in Production Planning and
Control, one Springer book in the Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
Publications................................. 5 series, and Liverpool Workshop Proceedings.
EWG-DSS Annual Workshops ... 7 During the year, EWG-DSS has also launched some significant new initiatives.
We have gladly awarded the 1st EWG-DSS Young Researcher Award (launched in
EWG-DSS Projects...................... 7 2011 - yearly). The group has also, for the first time, approved its official publications,
including two journals (i.e. International Journal of Decision Support Systems
EWG-DSS Meetings .................... 8 Technology and Journal of Decision Systems) and one proceedings series – Lecture
Notes in Business Information Processing. We have submitted research proposals to
Upcoming Events...................... 10 various research councils including the P-EoL project for EU FP7 and a COST Action
proposal.
Call for Papers........................... 12
Looking ahead, for 2013, we have planned more exciting events and
EURO&Other Announcements. 13 publications. Three important events are on the way: (1) EWG-DSS 2013 Annual
Workshop to be held in Thessaloniki, Greece, in May; (2) DSS stream in EURO XXVI-
Projects Reports ....................... 14 INFORMS joint international conference in Rome in July; (3) Mini Euro Conference in
September in Graz, Austria. Publication plan includes Special Issues with International
Journal of Decision Support Systems, Journal of Decision Systems, and International
Journal of Decision Support Systems, one book with Springer for the Lecture Notes in
Editorial Board Business Information Processing, and of course proceedings for the EWG-DSS
Annual Workshop and for the Mini-Conference.
Looking back 2012, we feel very happy with what we, as a group, have achieved
and the positive impact that we have made to wider communities and international
The Newsletter of the EURO WG
societies. Of course, none of these would have been achievable without the consistent
on Decision Support Systems is support from all of our members and other sister societies. Therefore, please accept
currently edited by: our sincere thanks for all of your contribution. We hope you enjoy the 2012-Newsletter,
Fátima Dargam, Pascale Zaraté, specially its interview with our long-term colleague and co-founder of the EWG-DSS:
Rita Ribeiro, Shaofeng Liu, Alexis Tsoukias! We wish you a wonderful Christmas and New Year! We look forward
Jorge E. Hernández & Boris to working with you more closely in 2013 for continuous success!
Delibašić. Best wishes from the EWG-DSS Coordination Board!
Comments and announcements
to next issues of the EWG-DSS
Newsletter should be sent to the
email address below with the
subject: “Newsletter”.
Email: ewg-dss@fccdp.com
Boris Delibašić, Shaofeng Liu, Pascale Zaraté, Rita Ribeiro, Fátima Dargam & Jorge Hernández.
Photo: Liverpool 2012 & London, 2011
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2. EWG-DSS Members An updated list of registered • EWG-DSS – LinkedIn Group
members with their respective email-
“We grow consistently and addresses can be sent to you, by http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gi
request. (mailto: ewg-dss@fccdp.com). d=1961459&trk=anet_ug_grppro
selectively both in membership
as well as in quality!”
EWG-DSS Channels
The EWG-DSS has currently 163
registered members and counts with “Efficient communication helps
an evergrowing number of more than you to better cooperate,
150 members in its Linked-In Group of innovate, add and multiply!”
Interest.
Below you find a description of all
the available communication channels
of the EWG-DSS. Use them to get in
touch with the group Coordination
Board Members and with its current The Linked-In EWG-DSS Group has
163 registered members. currently 157 members (status of
27.11.2012). This group is open to all
EWG-DSS Mailing-List: Linked-In users and there you find
briefings of the EWG-DSS’s activities,
ewg-dss@irit.fr discussions of related topics, job
This mailing-list is devoted only to announcements, Conference calls for
the registered EWG-DSS members to participation, Journals CfP, etc. If you
announcements and projects like networking, you should take
information, as well as research advantage of this plataform! To read
events, calls for publications, etc. and interact with the Linked-In EWG-
DSS Group, you have to log in the
Linked-In network.
EWG-DSS Web-Links:
• EWG-DSS – Slideshare Account
• EWG-DSS – Blog
http://www.slideshare.net/ewgdss
In the EWG-DSS Slideshare
account you find all the digital versions
of previous Newsletters, as well as the
http://ewgdss.wordpress.com/ online EWG-DSS presentations. If you
The EWG-DSS blog is maintained by wish to share some of your research
the Coordination Board. There you find presentations with us, you are
up-to-date information about the welcome to use this account. Please
group’s activities, links to the organized contact us for more details.
Workshops, projects proposals
descriptions, publications and news
about research collaborations.
Interview
• EWG-DSS – EURO Homepage
http://www.euro-online.org/web/ewg/10/ewg-
decision-support-systems
The EWG-DSS page at the EURO
online site is the group’s official
homepage. There you find a summary
of the detailed information you find in
Since 1999, the group the blog and the links to EWG-DSS’s
membership has grown substantially, organised Streams in EURO K
as can be observed in the graphics. Conferences, Annual Workshops; Mini-
Conferences; Awards, etc.
• EWG-DSS – IRIT Server
https://wwwsecu.irit.fr/listes/info/ewg-dss
Alexis Tsoukiàs
The EWG-DSS Server is hosted by Director of LAMSADE, CNRS – LAMSADE
IRIT. It contains all the EWG-DSS
Université Paris Dauphine, Paris, France
shared files. Via the option “Review http://www.lamsade.dauphine.fr/~tsoukias
Members”, one is able to check the e-
mail addresses of each member. To
“Having a look back 30 years, I can say
access the server you need to be a that the appearance of the area of
registered member of the group. Decision Support Systems allowed me to
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3. find my place within the broad in decision sciences, but she was Summer Institute, a community which
community of decision scientists and organising seminars and open contributed in widening the scope and
analysts.” discussion forums. To be brief, I loved vision of OR and Decision Analysis.
This year the EWG-DSS had the it! Mathematical language, but in an
pleasure to interview our long-time applicable format, rigour, but also EWG-DSS: In the past you had several
colleague and also a founding member creative thinking, real world aiding important responsibilities: you have
of the EWG-DSS in Madeira, 1989: people to make decisions. I decided to been vice president of ROADEF (the
Alexis Tsoukiàs. Alexis has always finish my engineering studies, but to French OR society), secretary and then
kept strong links with the EWG-DSS specialise in OR and Decision Theory. president of EURO, you coordinated a
group and has been present in many of It was the beginning of the 80s when I COST Action, you are now director of
its meetings, organised conference met OR. I graduated as engineer in the LAMSADE... How did all this
streams and workshops. In 2005, 1983 and started working in private influence your vision of our research
Alexis Tsoukias was one of the and public companies in Torino as a area?
keynote speakers of the Joint- consultant (In these years I also met a
Workshop in Graz; more recently in beautiful Italian girl. I was strongly AT: I always thought that a narrow
December 2011, he supported the motivated in remaining at Torino). interpretation of Operational Research
EWG-DSS by organising in the However, I was not satisfied by just could lead our field in an “impasse”.
University Paris-Dauphine, the Joint- applying. In 1985 there was an opening With narrow interpretation I mean
Workshop Paris-2011 between DASIG in the Department of Computer considering as Operational Research
and CNRS-LAMSADE; and to our Science at Politecnico di Torino for a only mathematical optimization,
great honor he has accepted to be one PhD and pushed by Anna I applied. I mathematical programming etc..
of the keynote speakers in the EWG- was successful. I started my PhD soon Consider that I have always been
DSS 2013 Workshop in Thessaloniki. after and defended it in April 1989. fascinated by optimisation (as well as
Doing a PhD with Anna Ostanello has by mathematics), for its elegance,
It is always a pleasure to meet Alexis been a great experience. Anna had a structure and rigour. The problem is
and share with him thoughts about very personal approach to Operational that we need to start consider our
various subjects, inclusive research! In Research, completely unconventional, discipline not just as a research area,
this interview, Alexis Tsoukias at least at that time. Her vision was on but as a profession. Just to make the
describes his involvement with DSS; the methodology and not methods. She point: the aggregate membership of
and his academic career. was strongly committed in defending the OR societies worldwide are about
We congratulate our colleague Alexis the “applied dimension” of decision 30000. The engineers who practice
Tsoukias on all his so far important sciences. The result was a broad vision decision support in their everyday job
career achievements and we wish him of the field and a strong opening to are millions worldwide. What do we
many more to come! We are also new contributions from “near have to say to these people? And just
grateful for having the opportunity of disciplines”. Combining the fact that we to add one further thought: is the
producing this exciting interview for the were in a Computer Science training we offer in our Universities
EWG-DSS Newsletter! Department I was soon oriented in appropriate for somebody who wants
getting interested to Artificial to enter the profession of decision
EWG-DSS: Alexis, how did it happen Intelligence and indeed my PhD has analyst?
to you to be involved with Decision been one of the first to try an These thoughts lead me to two basic
Support Systems? integration between OR and AI. I considerations. The first one implies
developed both a logical model for the necessity to create a broad
AT: At the end of the 70s, I was preference modeling purposes, but scientific area of what I call “Decision
studying Transportation Engineering at also a broad approach aiming at Sciences and Technologies”, putting
the Technical University of Torino combining AI and OR techniques as together all different areas within
(Politecnico di Torino, in Italy) where I instruments in decision aiding Decision Sciences (such as Game
moved from Athens after high school. processes. These issues are now Theory, Social Choice, Decision
The more I was studying, the more I current research subjects, but at that Analysis, Optimisation, Combinatorics,
was becoming convinced that I did not time we appeared quite strange to our Discrete Mathematics etc.), but also
care about engineering. The only mainstream colleagues in OR. In 1989 neighbours such as Artificial
classes I followed with interest were there was the call for the EURO Intelligence, Computer Science,
mathematics as well as some Summer Institute in DSS and I thought Analytics, Cognitive Sciences,
rudimental computer science (at that it would have been the right place to Organisation Studies etc.. The COST
time we were still using cards in order show the interest in this research area. Action “Algorithmic Decision Theory” I
to write our software which was run in I was accepted and to be sincere it has have coordinated between 2007 and
batch processing computers’ been a major contribution in 2011 has had exactly this purpose and
archeology and this gives us an idea of legitimating my vision of this field. The there are many other similar initiatives
the time passed since ). I was seriously rest is my career. I entered the CNRS around us. Not surprising the relation
considering moving to the Faculty of in France in 1993 getting a position at between Analytics and OR and
Mathematics. However, on the one the LAMSADE (at that time directed by Decision Analysis is dominating our
hand, mathematics in Torino at that Bernard Roy who was very interested institutional debates since some years
time was extremely theoretical and not in my approach) and here I am still now (see for instance the discussions
that appealing. On the other hand, I today. Having a look back to these 30 within INFORMS or in the UK ORS).
had to withdraw many of the exams I years I can say that the appearance of As EURO president I am proud I
had already done meaning losing a lot the area of Decision Support Systems worked in that direction and indeed in
of time in order to catch up.. While I allowed me to find my place within the the last year the audience of the EURO
was hesitating I started to follow the broad community of decision scientists conferences has been enormously
class of Operational Research given by and analysts. Although my research increased. The second consideration
Anna Ostanello. Anna was an today is not oriented in creating such implies the necessity to reason in
extraordinary teacher! Not only the systems I still feel part of the terms of methodology and not just of
regular class was an amazing journey community established with the EURO methods. Very often our area is viewed
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4. as a “toolkit” of methods and many Operational Research and Decision dedicate as much efforts as I can to
among us are viewed as specialists in Analysis, leaders in many subjects that …
one among the tools within that toolkit. (MCDA to mention just one …) and we EWG-DSS: Don’t you feel some times
This could be fine if we see ourselves want to keep our position also in the as doing too much? How do you
as researchers (where we need to be future. But this could be a subject of manage to take care of all that? How is
specialists), but is far less interesting another interview … To come back to private Alexis?
from a professional point of view. A your question, I try to concentrate my
professional need to know when, how, research interests in two topics. AT: I am not going to tell you how
why and under which constraints The first topic consists in contributing private Alexis is … this is a private
different tools make sense with respect in the “Algorithmic Decision Theory” question… You can ask Emanuela (the
to a problem situation: this is what I call long term challenge. More specifically beautiful Italian girl I met when I was
a methodology. A methodology we try (I am not alone in such an effort) student … we are since married…)
enabling to understand what the to construct an integrated framework how she managed our life all these
problem is, to structure it, to model it, allowing establishing what a “decision years… living in Torino, working in
to discuss it, to represent it, to revise it, problem” is (from an algorithmic point Paris, having the rest of the family at
to solve it etc.. For that we also need to of view, not a philosophical one …). Athens, having international
make a shift in perspective: besides The idea is to show that using a model appointments and projects… I am
thinking on how it is “better to decide”, and a method (any model or method), afraid it has been harder for her than
we need to consider how it is “better to under one or more criteria, in presence for me … I can tell you that having a
aid somebody to decide”. Our or not of uncertainty, with one or more curious job of the type a researcher
profession is exactly that second stakeholders, can be seen as a has, allows to develop your creative
perspective, characterised by the use particular instance of such a framework part without necessary inventing a
of formal models and rationality and that choosing a family of methods second (or third) life. To some extend
hypotheses. Other professions who or models depends from few this compensates the fact that we
help people to make better decisions parameters with finite options. This is dedicate so much time in our work. I
(such as lawyers, psychologists, not a tentative to “close” our area … I suppose the satisfactions you get are
doctors etc.) have already thought on am sure creative researchers will more of multiple natures…
how to train their young colleagues in or less soon falsify my framework and That said, yes, sometimes I feel tired…
the profession more than in the expand it. It helps to concentrate to I suppose is natural … As it is natural
research. Just to give an example: that few options that “really matter”! Of that I am now funding myself to feel
every lawyer knows how to defend the type shown by my colleagues and tired more often than some years
himself in case the client is unsatisfied friends working in conjoint ago… Emanuela has been a crucial
there is by the way an independent measurement theory: what “really support in facing that along these years
body which can assess where the matters” is how differences of and I will never be able to return the
professional conduct of the lawyer was preferences are modeled. help I received. I just do my best.
correct. Well, we have nothing similar The second topic consists in showing However, since you insist in knowing
in our profession. Establishing a that our toolkit and, most important, our more about “private Alexis” you can
profession of Decision Analyst is a general methodology needs to be make the scoop of the interview: I can
crucial challenge for the years coming. specialised as far as supporting “public reveal you that I will soon publish
decision processes” is concerned. My something concerning “Alexis
EWG-DSS: It looks as you are experience taught me that clients private”… but you need to be patient
concentrating your attention to training aiding to be supported within a “public for some months yet…
and professionalising decision policy cycle” have different problems
analysts. Isn’t it strange for somebody from clients working in business and EWG-DSS: Alexis, thank you very
who is full time researcher at the industry. Not always for sure. And not much for this enjoyable extraordinary
CNRS (one of the few institutions in all the problems are different. At the opportunity to interview you!
Europe where they still hire such bottom of the line we may end using as
profiles)? usual some combinatorial optimisation Contributing to this Newsletter
algorithm or some multi-attribute value
AT: Well! Of course being at the measurement model. But the decision Every member of the EWG-DSS is
CNRS is a privilege. Indeed I will aiding process is different. We try to very welcome to contribute to this
always recognise that without the trust focus our attention in specifying what Newsletter.
they gave me (hiring me immediately at makes the difference in developing a
Subjects can be related to:
tenure) it would have been difficult to new line of research we call: Policy
go ahead in exploring and creating all Analytics. You noted a call for papers • Project Descriptions
subjects I did in the past years. But, be in Annals of OR around this topic. The
• Recent Publications
sure! I did not forget my research new EURO Journal in Decision
passions. I just compromise between Process is also strongly interested in • PhD Dissertations
the pleasure of demonstrating a new this topic. I try to contribute … We also • Book Presentations / Reviews
theorem and the consciousness of plan to make some special sessions at
• Research Group Presentations
having to take care of the whole set of the next EURO/INFORMS conference
issues concerning Decision Analysis: in Rome in July 2013. We try to • Research Views and Perspectives
research, training and profession. mobilise research resources around • Journal Announcements – CfP
That said I need to be sincere. The this topic. My objective is to arrive in
the next years to create an • Forthcoming Events
time and (most important) the energy I
can dedicate to my research passions international community interested in • General Announcements
is just a fraction of what I would like to this area of research. Something Contributions should be sent to the
do. Being now head of the LAMSADE broader than “Public Sector OR”; email address ewg-dss@fccdp.com
is a strong responsibility. We are possibly an international with the subject: “Newsletter”.
known worldwide as one of the interdisciplinary community. It is a new
historical research centers in exciting perspective and I am trying to
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5. Support System at the Vilnius EURO The EWG-DSS long-term member, Dr.
EWG-DSS Award Conference 2012 in July 2012, for the Claudia Loebbecke, has been awarded
The EWG-DSS launched in 2011 a 2012-Award. News about its winner will with the 1st Prize outstanding research
motivating initiative for young soon be available on our blog. As in that impacts practice with the Society
researchers of an annual “EWG-DSS- 2011, the prize for the EWG-DSS of Information Management (SIM)
Award“. 2012-Award will be 2011 Paper Awards. Together with
of € 300,00. The Bernhard Thomas and Thomas Ullrich
The annual “EWG-DSS-Award” winner will be (both Continental AG), She won the
chooses the best and most innovative encouraged to 'SIM Paper Competition 2011' of the
presented work, among the papers take part in one of Society for Information Management
submitted by students or young the group’s 2013 (Web-Info). The study details a method
researchers in the EWG-DSS events, where the for supporting the cloud readiness
organised workshops and conference prize ceremony will assessment, which was developed with
streams of the same year, to be take place. and applied by Continental. We
rewarded with a modest prize in congratulate Claudia Loebbecke and
money. The EWG- her research partners for this noble
DSS hopes to achievement.
How to apply? count with
sponsorship from
To apply for the annual EWG-DSS
research funds
Award you only need to participate in
and from the
one of our Workshops or Session
industrial sector to make the future
Streams organised by the group and
“EWG-DSS-Awards” more financially
allow your work to be part of our
appealing. You are encouraged to
selection! More details can be found on
support this initiative by financially
http://ewgdss.wordpress.com/awards/ .
sponsoring it if possible, or
participating and/or disseminating this
Winner of the 2011-Award: information among your students,
colleagues, research partners and
The EWG-DSS had the pleasure to collaborators.
grant its first Award in a ceremony that
took place during the EWG-DSS For 2013, we will select for the
Liverpool Workshop, in April, 2012. EWG-DSS 2013-Award applicable
The EWG-DSS 2011-Award was given work submitted to the EWG-DSS
to Pierre-Emmanuel Arduin, from Thessaloniki-2013 Workshop on
LAMSADE Paris Dauphine University, “Exploring New Directions for
with the paper “From Knowledge Decisions in the Internet Age” in May
Sharing to Collaborative Decision 2013; or to the EWG-DSS Stream of
Making”, a joint work with Michel the EURO XXVI Informs Conference in
Grundstein and Camille Rosenthal- Rome in July 2013; or on the EWG-
DSS Stream of the EURO Mini- Professor Dr. Claudia Loebbecke, M.B.A.
Sabroux, that was presented in the
Conference on “Collaborative Decision Director, Dept. of Business, Media and
EWG-DSS London-2011 Workshop on
Systems in Economics and in Complex Technology Management
Decision Systems. The awarded paper
was published in a special issue on Societal and Environmental University of Cologne, Germany
Collaborative Decision Support Applications”, in Graz in October 2013.
Systems in the International Journal of See the Call for Participation for those
Information and Decision Sciences events in this Newsletter for more
(vol. 5 no. 3, 2013). The EWG-DSS details. Publications
Award prize for 2011 is of € 300.00. The “EWG-DSS Award 2013″ can be
yours! Participate!
EWG-DSS Members’
Award
EWG-DSS Official Publications:
st
1 . Prize – SIM Paper Awards
The EWG-DSS has the pleasure to
announce that the Society has adopted
two international journals as its official
publications: International Journal of
Decision Support Systems Technology
(IJDSST) and Journal of Decision
Systems (JDS). The Society has also
EWG-DSS 2012 Award established close and stable
The Members of the Coordination relationship with Lecture Notes in
Board are currently ranking and Business Information Processing
evaluating the applicable work (LNBIP).
submitted to the EWG-DSS Liverpool
2012 Workshop in April 2012 and to EWG-DSS is committed to make
the EWG-DSS Stream on Decision valuable contribution to the official
publications. The Society will manage
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6. at least one issue per year for the theory, computer science, artificial http://ewgdssliverpool2012.files.wordpr
IJDSST and JDS. With regard to intelligence and operation ess.com/2012/04/ewg-dss-
LNBIP, EWG-DSS edit one proceeding research will be considered insofar liverpool2012-full-version.pdf
every year for the series. In order to as they discuss the impact of Special Issue in International
thank the consistent support received systems on actual decision Journal of Information and Decision
from the publication editors and situations. In addition to covering Science
publishers, EWG-DSS would also concepts, techniques and tools Topic: Collaborative Decision Making.
encourage the Society members to related to computer-based Volume 5 issue 3.
submit their work to the IJDSST and decision systems, the journal will Guest Editors: Jason Papathanasiou,
JDS on regular basis, and recommend also publish case studies of Shaofeng Liu, Pascale Zarate.
the publications to their organisations human decision making,
(such as university libraries) for particularly those involved in the Special Issue in Journal of
subscription. management of organisations. Production Planning and Control
Topic: Collaborative Decision-Making
• IJDSST (Print ISSN: 1941-6296, • LNBIP (ISSN: 1865-1348; series Trends and Solutions for Industries.
Online ISSN: 1941-630X) is editors: van der Aalst, W.M.P., Guest Editors: Jorge Hernandez,
currently edited by Professor Mylopoulos, J., Rosemann, M., Andrew Lyon, Pascale Zarate, Fatima
Pascale Zarate and published by Shaw, M.J., Szyperski, C.) is Dargam.
IGI Global. The primary objective published by Springer. LNBIP
of the IJDSST is to provide reports state-of-the-art results in LNBIP – Springer Book on Decision
comprehensive coverage for areas related to business Support Systems: Collaborative
DMSS technology issues. The information systems and industrial Models and Approaches in Real
issues can involve, among other application software development Environments
things, new hardware and – timely, at a high level, and in
software for DMSS, new models to both printed and electronic form.
deliver decision making support, The type of material published
dialog management between the includes: proceedings (published
user and system, data and model in time for the respective event);
base management within the post-proceedings (consisting of
system, output display and thoroughly revised and/or
presentation, DMSS operations, extended final papers); other
and DMSS technology edited monographs (such as, for
management. Since the example, project reports or invited
technology’s purpose is to improve volumes); award-winning or
decision making, the articles are exceptional theses.
expected to link DMSS technology
to improvements in the process Recent Publications:
and outcomes of the decision
making process. This link can be
Special Issue in International
established theoretically,
Journal of Decision Support
mathematically, or empirically in a
Systems Technology
systematic and scientific manner. This Book of Post-Proceedings of the
Topic: Networking Decision Making
and Negotiation Springer Series LNBIP – Lecture Notes
• JDS (Print ISSN 1246-0125, Volume 4 issues 2 and 3. in Business Information Processing,
Online ISSN 2116-7052) is Guest Editors: Fatima Dargam, Boris contains extended and revised
currently co-edited by Professor Delibašić, Jorge Hernandez, Shaofeng versions of a set of selected papers
Frédéric Adam and Professor Liu. from two workshops organized by the
Frada Burstein and published by Euro Working Group on Decision
Taylor and Francis. The JDS EWG-DSS Liverpool-2012 Workshop Support Systems (EWG-DSS), which
publishes original articles in either were held in London and Paris, in June
Proceedings – Book of Abstracts
English or French which extend or and November 2011, respectively. The
consolidate scientific knowledge workshop themes were “Decision
related to decision making and Support Systems” and “Collaborative
decision support, in particular Decision Making.” The 11 papers were
decision support systems. selected from 52 submissions and are
Decision support refers to the representative of the current research
routine, techniques, support staff in these fields. They address
and computer-based applications challenges such as conceptual models,
that provide dedicated support or software specification and simulation,
dedicated information to facilitate collaborative requirements
individuals or groups in their specification, as well as multi-objective
decision-making tasks. The main and multi-criteria decision making.
purpose of the JDS is to be a
forum for researchers and Guest Editors:
practitioners who seek to Jorge E. Hernández
understand how to best support Pascale Zaraté
decision makers, for instance by Fátima C.C. Dargam
designing, implementing and Boris Delibašić
This Book of Abstracts is available
evaluating computer-based Shaofeng Liu
online as pdf file under the link:
decision support systems. Rita Ribeiro
Therefore, papers on decision
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7. Content Level » Research doi:10.1080/00207543.2012.7096 information among practitioners, end-
Keywords » collaborative systems – 46 (ABS 3* journal; Impact factor: users, and researchers in the area of
decision support systems – mass 1.115; Print ISSN: 0020-7543, Decision Systems.
customization – multi-criteria decision Online ISSN: 1366-588X;
making – supply chain management Published by Taylor and Francis). • Enforce the networking among the
DSS communities available and
Related subjects » Business [6] Shaofeng Liu, Dulekha facilitate activities that are essential for
Information Systems – Information Kasturiratne and Jonathan Moizer, the start-up of international cooperation
Systems and Applications – Operations 2012. A hub-and-spoke model for research and projects.
Research & Decision Theory – multi-dimensional integration of
Production & Logistics – Theoretical green marketing and sustainable • Facilitate professional academic and
Computer Science supply chain management. industrial opportunities for its
Journal of Industrial Marketing members.
Management 41(4): 581-588.
Publications from members of (ABS 3* journal, Impact factor: • Favour the development of innovative
the EWG-DSS: 1.530; ISSN: 0019-8501. models, methods and tools in the field
Publisher: Elsevier). Decision Support and related areas.
[1] Andrew C. Lyons, Lucy [7] Iain Boyle, Alex Duffy, Robert Ian • Actively promote the interest on
Everington, Jorge E. Hernandez, Whitfield and Shaofeng Liu, 2012. Decision Systems in the scientific
Dong Li, Roula Michaelides and The impact of resources on community by organizing dedicated
Juneho Um, 2012. The application decision making. Artificial workshops, seminars, mini-
of a knowledge-based reference Intelligence for Engineering conferences and conference streams
framework to support the provision Design, Analysis and in major conferences, as well as editing
of requisite variety and Manufacturing 26(4): 407-423. special and contributed issues in
customization across collaborative (Print ISSN: 0890-0604, Online relevant scientific journals.
networks. International Journal of ISSN: 1469-1760; Publisher:
Production Research. doi: Cambridge Press) EWG-DSS Projects
10.1080/00207543.2012.701777
Thanks to all group members who
[2] David Carter, Jonathan Moizer
and Shaofeng Liu, 2013. Using
contributed to this section. PEoL – e-Platform for End of
groups to support judgemental Life products
parameter estimation VISCONS: 7th Framework
"eyeballing" to capture a qualified EWG-DSS Annual Programme for
group consensus. Expert Systems Workshops Research,
with Applications 40(2): 715-721. technological
(ABS 3* journal; Impact factor: Development and
2.203; ISSN: 0957-4174; Imprint: Demonstration
Elsevier).
This project proposal was submitted to
[3] David Perez Perales, Maria del the work programme: ENV.2013.6.3-1
Mar Eva Alemany, Francisco Cruz Turning waste into a resource through
Lario and Jorge E. Hernandez, innovative technologies, processes and
2012. Framework for Modelling the services, a) Valorisation of urban solid
Decision View of the Supply waste.
Chains Collaborative Planning
Process. International Journal of The project’s main challenge concerns
Since 2011, the EWG-DSS has been
Decision Support System the promotion of a radical change in
organising at least one Workshop collection of EoL products, where all
Technology. per year. The Prezi Presentation
doi:10.4018/jdsst.2012040104 stakeholders interact with each other
linked here makes a summary of the and how to make urban mining efficient
last 3 Workshops (London, Paris, and cost-effective through traceability
[4] Wei Sun, Gang Zhang, John Scott Liverpool) and calls for participation
and Shaofeng Liu, 2013. Rural- are the main challenges for P-EoL. The
on the next one: the EWG-DSS innovative way to do so is through the
urban migration decision making Thessaloniki 2013. Check it out!
process: a whole and personal development of a closed loop supply
(Link: http://prezi.com/sjo1bwe3a6ys/ewg- chain collaborative e-platform that
support network analysis. dss-thessaloniki-2013/ . For a better view of
International Journal of the Prezi Presentation, choose “Full Screen” allows all stakeholders - like public and
Information and Decision Science and “Autoplay”.) private consumers (commercial and
5(3). (ISSN print: 1756-7017, business), dismantlers/ recyclers
ISSN online: 1756-7025; With the workshops our group has and/or to manufacturers (to close the
Publisher: InderScience) cycle) - to participate, trade and
made a step forwards within its negotiate, while establishing the
main purpose of establishing a traceability across the life cycle of
[5] Shaofeng Liu, Mike Leat,
platform for encouraging state-of- products.
Jonathan Moizer, Phil Megicks
and Dulekha Kasturiratne, 2012. A
the-art high quality research and
decision-focused knowledge collaboration work within the DSS The participants of this project
management framework to community. proposal are: UNINOVA (Portugal),
support collaborative decision Other aims of the EWG-DSS group are University of Plymouth (UK), University
making for lean supply chain to: of Liverpool (UK), University of
management. International Toulouse (France), SimTech
Journal of Production Research, • Encourage the exchange of Simulation Technology (Austria),
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8. Centro de Estudos, Informação e collaboration is concerned with
Formação para o Ambiente (Portugal), partnerships formed along a linear, EWG-DSS Meetings
University of Macedonia (Greece), upstream-downstream supply chain. List of all EWG-DSS Meetings,
University of Brasília (Brazil), STENUM Conventional customer-supplier
(Austria), MicroPro (Ireland), Secure IT relationships are vertical in nature.
Workshops & Mini-Conferences:
(UK), Recielectric (Portugal), AutoVFV . Fontainebleau (France) – 1990;
(Portugal), and Setco (UK). Horizontal collaboration is a growing . Bruges (Belgium) – 1991;
trend in contemporary supply chain . Nagycenk (Hungary) – 1992;
Please note that this proposal is still design. It concerns collaboration . Sintra (Portugal) – 1993;
under evaluation. between organisational entities . Turku (Finland) – 1994;
providing the same or similar service. . Samos (Greece) – 1995;
Horizontal collaboration can be “co- . Ispra (Italy) – 1996;
EWG-DSS Members’ opetitive” – collaboration between . Bruges (Belgium) – 1997;
competitors. . Granada (Spain) – 1998;
Projects . Turku (Finland) – 1999;
The primary activities associated with . Toulouse (France) – 2000;
C2i - COLLABORATE TO C2i will be to provide eligible NW . Caiscas (Portugal) – 2001;
SMEs with the mentoring and . Bruges (Belgium) – 2002;
INNOVATE organisational support to engage in . Luxembourg – 2003;
The Collaborate to Innovate (C2i) collaborative alliances and the . Istanbul, (Turkey) – 2003;
Project is a novel, ERDF-funded technical support to develop . Prato, (Italy) – 2004;
partnership that has been formed collaborative ICT platforms. Specific . Graz (Austria) – 2005;
between the University of Liverpool SME applications will concern: . London (UK) – 2006;
Management School and Agile . Reykavik (Iceland) – 2006;
• customer relationship . Montreal (Canada) – 2007;
Business Solutions in order to provide
management, . Prague (Czech Republic) – 2007;
assistance to SMEs in the North West
region. • supplier relationship management, . Toulouse (France) – 2008;
• collaborative planning & . Bonn (Germany) – 2009;
scheduling, . Lisbon (Portugal) – 2010;
The basic premise of the C2i Project is
• collaborative product design, . London (UK) – 2011;
that the process of innovation is not
undertaken solely internally within an • collaborative manufacturing, . Paris (France) – 2011.
SME, but is best performed in a co- • shared services, and . Liverpool (UK) – 2012;
operative fashion with other external • aggregated procurement. . Vilnius (Lithuania) – 2012.
organisations. The primary activities Collaborative practices concerning
associated with C2i are based on this supplier relationship management Meetings in 2012
premise and will provide eligible NW (SRM) and customer relationship
SMEs with the mentoring and In 2012, the EWG-DSS organise
management (CRM) are necessary in
organisational support to engage in one Workshop and one DSS Stream
order to improve managerial capability
collaborative alliances and the within the EURO XXV Conference in
and support the sustainability of the
technical support to develop Vilnius. Those two events allowed the
new and/or enhanced collaborative
collaborative ICT platforms in order to group to promote two official annual
alliances. The implementation of these
facilitate both product and process- meetings!
applications will allow participating
related initiatives and innovations. C2i SMEs to overcome a lack of internal
will develop networks of within-sector capabilities and expertise, to share
and cross-sector, high-growth industrial scarce resources, to dramatically
NW SMEs and will facilitate the design improve productivity and to reduce risk.
and implementation of productive The EWG-DSS Liverpool-2012
collaborative projects within and across Workshop on
Sixty-four eligible companies will be
these networks. This will be done with
a view to increase competitive
targeted for intensive support and their Decision Support Systems &
selection will be based on the most Operations Management Trends
advantage through improved
beneficial impact to the North West – and Solutions in Industries
performance.
potential jobs created / safeguarded,
Many SMEs have insufficient new business opportunities and
resources and expertise to innovate strategic development of NW The first meeting of the EWG-DSS in
beyond repeating previous, short-term manufacturing capability. Intensively
successes. The nature of innovation is supported SMEs will be assessed
increasingly recognised as a based on their strategic alignment to
collaborative one and new innovations the high-growth engineering networks,
that lead to step changes in operational / financial performance and
performance increasingly require that business culture and drive for change.
SMEs co-operate and share their Opportunities for reduced-carbon
ideas. enhancing initiatives will also be
explored. 40% of the companies will be
C2i concerns the facilitation of based in Merseyside and the remaining
collaboration within the horizontal and 60% will be evenly spread across 2012 took place in Liverpool, UK,
vertical networks of customers, Cheshire, Cumbria, Lancashire and within the EWG-DSS Liverpool-2012
suppliers, competitors and the Manchester. Workshop on “Decision Support
supporting agencies of NW SMEs. In Systems & Operations Management
simple terms, inter-organisational For more information contact: Trends and Solutions in Industries”.
collaboration can be classified as Andrew Lyons It was organized in cooperation with
vertical or horizontal. Vertical a.c.lyons@liverpool.ac.uk Jorge Hernandez, EWG-DSS Co-
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9. Coordinator and Lecturer in Operations inspiration for further investigations in Kirilov, Krassimira Genova, Boris
& Supply Chain Management at the the area. We are extremely proud from Staykov;
University of Liverpool Management our invited key note speakers because • Hope: a web-based SDSS for urban
School, where the EWG-DSS of their time and effort in giving to all management, Joao Coutinho-
Workshop took place. We are deeply the participants clear and real insights Rodrigues;
grateful to the support received from to their subject aligned with the • Criteria weighting considering the
Jorge Hernandez and the Management Decision-Making and Decision Support interaction with institution’s goals,
School events coordinators, Katie System area. Their presentations were Sheu-Hua Chen, Hong Tau Lee.
Neary and Artemis Mermigki, in the extremely motivating for all the
Liverpool Workshop. attendances. 3.Knowledge Management & Decision
Key-note speakers: Systems (chair: Shaofeng Liu).
We can certainly say that the Presented work:
Dr. Paul Drake
Liverpool-2012 Workshop was a great • Extending the analysis of the EURO
Head of Marketing and
Operations Management success! There were 35 registered Working Group on DSS Research
Group, Management School participants and 26 presentations. All Collaboration Network (EWG-DSS
University of Liverpool, UK. presentations were very interesting and Collab-Net V.2); Pascale Zaraté,
there was a high level of information Fatima Dargam, David Dadenne,
Prof. Pascale Zarate exchange for further cooperation
Universite Toulouse Isabelle Linden, Shaofeng Liu, Rita
among the participants. Ribeiro, Wei Sun;
1 Capitole (UT1C). France.
EWG-DSS Coordintator. • Applying ontology in the analysis of a
Editor -chief Journal IJDSST Details about the Workshop Program, DSS Research Collaboration
Special Talks, electronic Proceedings, Network; Fatima Dargam, Antonio C.
Mr. Tony Waller Special Issues and photo gallery can S. Branco, Alexandre Rademaker,
Lanner Group be found at its Homepage: Renato Rocha Souza;
UK. http://ewgdssliverpool2012.wordpress.com. • Ranking the seawater desalination
methods by using multi criteria
decision making approaches
Dr. Steve Childe EURO XXV Vilnius, Lithuania Amin Esmaeeli, Hooman Baghban
Senior lecturer
School of Engineering, July 8-11th, 2012 Asghari nejad, Mahdi Zarghami.
Computing & Mathematics
University of Exeter, UK. 4.Applications in Decision Making &
Editor in-chief Journal PPC Decision Analysis (Chair: Pascale
Production Planning Control Zarate). Presented work:
Prof. Peter McBurney
Agents-Intelligent
• A decision making framework for a
Systems Group EWG-DSS Stream: Colombian business group, Julián
Department of Informatics Benavides, Felipe henao;
Decision Support System
King’s College London, UK. • Development of a territorial
As usual, the EWG-DSS Coordination vulnerability indicator framework for
Dr. Zenon Michaelides Board, under the representation of cross-border risk analysis, Tina
Management School Pascale Zaraté; Fátima Dargam; and Comes, Marjorie Vannieuwenhuyse,
University of Liverpool Rita Ribeiro, organized in the Frank Schultmann;
UK. EUROXXV Conference a Decision • Requirements analysis and
Support Systems Stream. The DSS conceptual design of data
Stream was composed of four sessions warehouse, Dragana Becejski-
In this opportunity the 2012 EWG-
and each of them counted with 3 Vujaklija, Milena Panovic.
DSS Liverpool’s workshop counted
presentations.
with six invited key note speakers:
DSS Stream Sessions: Photo from the EUROXXV - DSS Stream:
• Dr. Paul Drake
Title: The Management School in the 21st 1.Decision Support Systems (chair:
century
Pascale Zarate). Presented work:
• Prof. Pascale Zaraté
Title: Cooperative Decision Support • Decisions, processes, and decision
Systems. processes for enabling risk sharing
• Mr. Tony Waller and performance creation at the
Title: WITNESS Simulation and its role in buyer-supplier interface, Kristian
Decision Support. Rotaru, Carla Wilkin, Leonid Churilov
• Dr. Steve Childe • Modelling to generate alternatives
Title: Decision Support and Operations
using biologically-inspired algorithms
Management – viewpoint from an editor.
• Prof. Peter McBurney
Julian Scott Yeomans, Raha
Imanirad;
Title: What are models for? From left to right: Isabelle Linden, Shaofeng
• Dr. Zenon Michaelides • The Role of product factors, sellers' Liu, Fatima Dargam, Pascale Zaraté.
Title: Using Enterprise Resources Planning factors and attitude toward risk on e-
(ERP) systems to support Decision Support store purchasing , Arik Sadeh. Following our Stream on the
activities in Operations & Supply Chain EUROXXV, the edition of a dedicated
Management: The Introduction of SAP into 2.Web-based Spatial-temporal
Universities taught Curriculum.
Special Issue of the IJDSST
Collaborative Decision Support Internation Journal of Decision Support
Systems (chair: Fatima Dargam). Systems Technology is currently being
The rich diversity of topics and Presented work: processed. It consists of thoroughly
approaches of Decision Support • Scalarising methods in DSS revised and extended final papers
Systems & Operations Management Weboptim, Vassil Guliashki, Leoneed selected the DSS Stream Sessions
presented by the key note speakers
WA-27; WB-27; WC-27; WD-27;
were an invaluable source of
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10. among other submitted work of - Decision Systems in the Mobile
members of the EWG-DSS. Guest Era of Web 3.0
editors of this issue are: Fatima
Dargam, Shaofeng Liu, and Isabelle - Decision-making using Social
Linden. Networks
- Spatial-temporal Web-based
Decision Making
Upcoming Events: - Technical, Legal & Social
Aspects of Web-based Decision
EWG-DSS Making
Thessaloniki-2013 - Group Support Systems / Springer Book JDS
Distributed / Collaborative Series LNBIP Special Issue
Decision Making
Further details about the Workshop
- Methods, Languages and Tools Program and Publications, Special
to support Decision Making Talks, Venue, Registration and
Workshop on Accommodation will be available at:
- Web 2.0/ 3.0 Systems for http://ewgdssthessaloniki2013.wordpress.co
Exploring New Directions for Decision Support & m/
Decisions in the Internet Age Globalisation Context
The EWG-DSS Coordinators are
May 29th-31st, 2013 - Spatial-temporal Decision looking forward to welcoming you
Support Systems in Greece next year!
The EWG-DSS Thessaloniki-
2013 Workshop on “Exploring New - Knowledge Management &
Directions for Decisions in the Internet Decision Support Systems EURO XXVI - 2013
Age” will particularly focus on the - Knowledge and Resource
advances on research in the field of Discovery & Decision Making The 26th European
Decision Sciences, for meeting the
challenges of paradigm shift in decision - Business Intelligence and Data Conference on
making and decision support brought Warehousing
by recent developments of Web 2.0
Operational Research
- Negotiation Support Systems EURO-INFORMS Joint
and 3.0 technologies. Specifically, the within the paradigm for the
workshop will develop a research Internet Age International Meeting 2013,
agenda that identifies the key issues Rome, Italy. July 1-4th, 2013.
and challenges, and explores new
approaches and tools for future
collaborative decision making, Conference Venue: University of
including the use of social networks Sapienza, in Rome, Italy
and Web resources, dynamic spatial- http://euro2013.org/
temporal decision making, and
technical and social aspects of web-
based decision processes.
The workshop will develop a The EWG-DSS Coordination Board is EWG-DSS Stream on:
research agenda for the new directions very grateful to the support received by “Decision Support System”
in decisions in Internet age and will be Dr. Jason Papathanasiou, member of
an enabling platform for decision the EWG-DSS and Lecturer at the Organisers:
scientists, computer scientists, applied Dept. of Marketing and Operations Pascale Zaraté,
mathematicians, and social scientists Management of the University of Fátima Dargam,
to devise a roadmap encouraging Macedonia, in organizing this meeting Rita Ribeiro,
interdisciplinary research for the in Thessaloniki, Greece. Jorge Hernández,
development of Web-based DSS, as
Members of the EWG-DSS working Boris Deliašić,
well as architectures and
group are expected to participate and Shaofeng Liu
methodologies that can specify
dynamic and collaborative DSS for the to encourage the participation of other
Web 2.0 and 3.0. related professionals in this Workshop The DSS Stream Sessions:
on “Exploring New Directions for - Applications in Decision Making &
Contributions (Call for Papers) Link: Decisions in the Internet Age”, so that Decision Analysis
http://ewgdssthessaloniki2013.files.wordpre further collaboration can be promoted - Knowledge Management & Decision
ss.com/2012/07/cfp-ewg-dss-thessaloniki- Systems
on a larger scale.
2013.pdf - DSS supported by simulation and
The workshop publications will be optmization approaches
We encourage the submission of
composed of the Book of Abstracts; a - Decision Making using Social
papers addressing topics in research
Special Issue on the Journal of Networks and Web Resources
and application of Decision Systems.
Decision Systems and a Springer Book - Collaborative Decision Making
Authors are requested to submit
of Post-Proceedings, Series LNBIP.
extended abstracts (~6 A4 pages) in Call for Papers can be found in the
The last two editions will be produced
electronic form (MS-Word or PDF) EWG-DSS Blog. Check the link:
with selected and revised full papers
(template here) up to 30/03/2013.
presented in the workshop. http://ewgdss.wordpress.com/
Submissions may include, among
others, the following topics: We hope to see you in Rome! ♦
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11. th th
8 -11 , 2012. More information about
EURO Mini-Conference it can be found the Conference EURO Mini-Conference
Graz – 2013 Homepage: www.euro-2012.lt.
EURO Mini-Conference
October 17th – 19th, 2012 DSS Stream Graz-2013
on
Joint-Streams of the EWGs: As usual, the EWG-DSS Coordination
Board will organize in this Conference “Collaborative Decision
DSS; E-CUBE; MCSP & Systems in Economics and in
a Decision Support Systems Stream,
ORAFM to which you are all welcome to Complex Societal and
Local Organising Committee participate and submit your research Environmental Applications”
work.
Prof. Ulrike Leopold‐Wildburger / Graz, Austria.
Univ. Graz ‐ Austria The DSS Stream at EURO XXV is
Dr. Fatima Dargam / ILTC – Brazil /
composed of five sessions: October 17th to 19th, 2013.
SimTech – Austria - Applications in Decision Making &
This EURO Mini Conference is jointly
Decision Analysis: 88d4c0bc
Mag. Arleta Ramußen / Univ. Graz ‐ organised by the EURO Working
- Knowledge Management & Decision
Austria Systems: cea335f9 Groups on Decision Support Systems
- DSS supported by simulation and (EWG-DSS); Experimental Economics
optmization approaches: 09dc289d (EWG E-CUBE), the EURO Working
The interdisciplinary flavour of this Group on Methodology for Complex
event joins the interests of the Working - Decision Making using Social
Networks and Web Resources: Societal Problems (MCSP) and the
Groups on Decision Support Systems EURO Working Group on OR in
c1c11a66
(EWG-DSS); Experimental Economics Agriculture and Forest Management
(EWG E-CUBE), the EURO Working - Collaborative Decision Making: (ORAFM). Each group will run and
Group on Methodology for Complex 2366ccc0 chair its Stream in parallel.
Societal Problems (MCSP) and the In order to submit your abstract to one
EURO Working Group on OR in It will take place in the Institute of
of those sessions, you need to login in
Agriculture and Forest Management Statistics and Operations Research of
the conference site, select the
(ORAFM). Particular focus will be given the Karl-Franzens Universität Graz,
“Abstract submission” menu option and
to recent developments in all related Austria, from October 17th to 19th,
then enter the session code (see
fields, their methodologies, concepts 2013.
above) to which you wish to place your
and implementation details. Members submission. Contributors are
of the working groups are expected to Due to its interdisciplinary flavour, this
requested to submit their Abstracts (no
participate and to encourage the conference brings together
more than 600 characters) in English.
participation of other related researchers of the areas of Decision
The Call for Papers for the EURO XXV
professionals, so that further Sciences, Operations Research,
– DSS Stream can be downloaded via
collaboration can be promoted on a Economics, Societal Complexity,
the link:
larger scale. This EURO Mini Environmental Management and their
Conference promises to offer a http://ewgdss.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/cfp- respective fields of applications.
pleasant working environment for all euro-xxv-vilnius2012-dss-stream.pdf Collaborative Decision Systems in the
participants, within the beautiful fall areas of Economics, Societal and
time of Graz. Important Dates Environmental Applications are very
much encouraged to be submitted to
Deadlines for Abstracts: March 1st, 2012
Information about the on-line this EURO Mini-Conference.
registration will be available on the Acceptance Deadline for early
web-page of the Mini-Conference, as notification registration Papers addressing topics in
well as on http://www.uni-graz.at/sor March 31st, 2012 April 1st, 2012 research and application areas of the
and on the EWG-DSS site Deadline for author EURO XXV EURO Working Groups on DSS; E-
http://ewgdss.wordpress.com/. registration Conference dates CUBE; MSC and ORAFM are currently
Participation is open to all May1st, 2012 July 8th-11th, 2012 being invited for this Joint Mini-
researchers within the related areas! Conference. Contributors are
requested to submit either Abstracts (1
In order to ease the organisation of the
page) or Short Papers (4/6 pages) in
DSS Stream sessions, please keep us
electronic form (MS-Word or PDF) by
Call for Papers informed about your contributions to
30/06/2013. Presentations of Projects,
the DSS Stream, by sending a copy of
Software Tools and Demos are also
your submitted papers to ewg-
EURO XXVI, Rome, Italy. dss@fccdp.com. Thanks!
welcome. More details about the Mini-
Conference Programme will be
July 1st - 4th, 2013. available at the Conference site. There
A dedicated Special Issue of the JDS will be parallel sessions for EWG-DSS,
Journal of Decision Systems will be EWG E-CUBE, EWG-MSC and EWG-
EWG-DSS Stream organized after the EUROXXVI with a ORAFM.
at the EUROXXVI selection of presented papers in the
in Rome, DSS Stream. Guest editors of this The 2013 EURO Mini-Conference
Italy in 2013. issue will be: Shaofeng Liu, Pascale will publish a book of Abstracts with the
Zaraté and Rita Ribeiro. presented work. Full Papers accepted
The 26th European Conference on
for the conference can be submitted
Operational Research "EURO XXVi",
(refereed separately) for publication in
with the special subject "OR - We thank you in advance for your
special issues of the Journals: CEJOR
Connecting Sciences" will take place participation and dissemination!
Central European Journal of
in Vilnius, organized by the Lithuanian Operations Research (Physica-Verlag/
OR Society, during the period of July
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12. Springer-Verlag Co. Call for Papers ‐ Link:
http://www.springeronline.com/journal/1 http://www.iip.kit.edu/downloads/ISCRAM20
0100); IJDSST International Journal of 13_Holistic_Decision_Support.pdf
Decision Support Systems Technology;
and the IJDSS International Journal of • Efficient Planning and Decision
Decision Support Systems. Authors will Support for Robust Critical
be requested to hand-in their final full Infrastructure Systems
papers in electronic media to their
Call for Papers ‐ Link:
respective Conference Contact Person
http://www.iip.kit.edu/downloads/ISCRAM20
up to 15/11/2013. Proposals for panels 13_CI_Decision_Support.pdf
or demo presentations in special
sessions are very welcome.
This EURO Mini Conference GDN2013
promises to offer a pleasant working Special Sessions
environment for all participants, within
the beautiful fall time of Graz. Automated Facilitation in
• Decision-Making using Social
Participation is open to all Networks and Web Resources Group Support Systems
researchers within the related areas! • Spatial-temporal Web-based Organizers: Guy Camilleri &
Decision-Making Pascale Zaraté
• Technical, Legal & Social Aspects The purpose of this session is to
of Web-based Decision-Making investigate recent advances about
• Group Support Systems / automated facilitation of meetings in
Distributed / Collaborative which Group Support Systems (GSS)
Decision-Making or Group Decision Support systems
• Methods, Languages and Tools to (GDSS) are used. Facilitation was for a
support Collaborative Decision long time recognized as a key success
Making factor for meetings. When GDSS tools
• Web 2.0 Systems for Decision are used or when e-meetings take
Support & Globalisation Context place, the need to facilitate meetings is
even more visible. Unfortunately, due
• Spatial-temporal Decision Support
The members of the to their specific skills, professional
Systems
Coordination Boards of the joint- facilitators are expensive and scarce.
• Knowledge Management &
organising EURO Working Groups of The automated facilitation appears as
Decision Support Systems
DSS, E-CUBE, MCSP and ORAFM are a promising way of supporting the
• Knowledge and Resource facilitation activity, in order to make it
very grateful to the support received by Discovery & Decision making
the Karl-Franzens University of Graz, more accessible to facilitators with less
• Business Intelligence and Data expertise; and therefore for improving
specially to Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ulrike Warehousing
Leopold-Wildburger, from the Institute the meetings efficiency and the
• Negotiation Support Systems promotion of GSS in organization.
of Statistics and Operations Research,
for the opportunity of organising this
Submissions details can be found via
Conference in Graz, Austria. Issues for e-Governance.
the link:
Details about the Participation, http://ewgdss.wordpress.com/ewg-dss-
Organizers: Pascale Zaraté &
Program and Registration for this academic-production/ Guy Camilleri
Conference will be soon available in: Nowadays, virtually every industry or
http://eurominiconferencegraz2013.wordpre business, as well as any political or
ss.com/
Other Calls personal activity has to deal with vast
amount of data and information that
We hope to see you in Graz! travel via the Internet. The internet has
ISCRAM 2013
substantial impact on our decisions,
Integrative and Analytical affecting e.g. consumers through the
Journal Call for Papers Approaches to Crisis way it informs and connects them.
Response and Emergency There is an increasing prospect of the
IJDSST - Special Issue of the Management Information Internet influencing multi-actor
EWG-DSS decision-making and particularly in the
Systems e-Governance area. E-governance
This Special Issue is organised offers new opportunities for Group
by the EURO Working Group on Decision Making, which might even go
Decision Support Systems. as far as changing its nature. New
Guest Editors: concepts emerge from this application
Fatima Dargam like for example e-Democracy and the
Shaofeng Liu concept of Netizens which is a
Baden-Baden, Germany contraction between Internet and
Isabelle Linden
May 12th-15th, 2013 Citizens. The idea of this session is to
ISCRAM 2013 Homepage: measure the new issues of the E-
It will consist of thoroughly revised
papers devoted to the development of http://iscram2013.org/ Governance.
new approaches to decision-making Minitracks:
and decision support. Submissions GDN2013 website:
• Decision Support Methods and http://gdn2013.blogs.dsv.su.se/call-for-
may include, among others, the
Tools for Holistic Emergency papers/
following topics:
Management
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