Newsletter Nr.10 Year 2011

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Newsletter EWG-DSS Nr.10 – 2011:

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EURO XXV – DSS Stream

EURO XXV – 2012
Stream on Decision Support Systems

Call for Papers (pdf file) – EXTENDED DEADLINE: 18.03.2012

The 25th European Conference on Operational Research, EURO XXV, with the special subject on “OR connecting sciences” will take place in Vilnius, Lithuania from July 8^th to 11^th, 2012. The Programme and Organising Committee are preparing a high quality academic programme of the Conference. In addition to this, you will have an excellent opportunity to exploit Vilnius, the historical capital of Lithuania! More details about the Conference and the venue can be found in the Conference Homepage: http://www.euro-2012.lt/ .

As the organizer of the Stream of Decision Support Systems, the EWG-DSS would like to invite you: researchers, practitioners, as well as students working in the areas of decision making, analysis and decision support to participate at this Conference and to submit your work to this stream. The DSS Stream’s is composed of 4 sessions. These sessions define the main topics of interest in this stream. In order to submit your abstract to one of the DSS Sessions listed below, you need to login in the conference site, select the “Abstract submission” menu option and then enter the session’s code to which you wish to place your submission. The DSS Stream Session codes are given below:

- Group Support Systems / Distributed / Collaborative Decision Making : ea286cb6

- Web-based Spatial-temporal Decision Support Systems : b22bd4a2

- Knowledge Management & Decision Systems : c3be9e37

- Applications in Decision Making & Decision Analysis : 16ca0674

Contributors are requested to submit their Abstracts (no more than 600 characters) in English (without formulas or mathematical notations). Notice that each attendee is only allowed to present one paper at the conference.

Please keep us informed about your contributions to the DSS Stream, by sending us a copy of your submitted papers via e-mail (ewg-dss@fccdp.com), in order to ease the organisation of our sessions. Thanks!

IMPORTANT DATES:
EXTENDED DEADLINE for ABSTRACTS:  March 18^th, 2012

Acceptance notification March 31st, 2012	Deadline for early registration April 1st, 2012
Deadline for author registration May1st, 2012	Conference dates July 8th-11th, 2012

We thank you in advance for your submissions, and we hope to see you in Vilnius!

Yours Sincerely,

The DSS Stream Organizers:
Representatives of the EWG-DSS Coordination Board
Fátima Dargam
Rita Ribeiro
Pascale Zaraté

Paris, here we go!

The EWG-DSS is very pleased to announce that the “EWG-DSS Stream on Collaborative Decision Making” of the EWG-DSS / DASIG Paris-2011 Joint-Workshop, to be held on November 30th, 2011, has attracted the  participation and the interest of many  professionals of the decision-making research area.

The Workshop comprises two Streams. On Day 1 (Wednesday, Nov.30th, 2011), there is the EWG-DSS Stream on “Collaborative Decision Making ”(EWG-DSS_Stream Program), including 2 invited speakers presentations and 14 papers short presentations related to various aspects of Decision Making approaches. On Day 2 (Thursday,Dec.3oth, 2011), there is the Stream on “Policy Analytics” organized by the DASIG Decision Analysis Special Interest Group from the British OR Society (DASIG Stream Program), including 9 presentations and 1 plenary discussion about the topic of Policy Analytics.

The special  talks of the EWG-DSS Stream on “Collaborative Decision Making ”will be presented by Denis Bouyssou , a Senior Researcher at the CNRS in Paris, about the topic:  “Should you believe in the Shanghai ranking ?”; and Sihem Amer-Yahia, Principal Research Scientist at Qatar Computing Research Center, who will speak about: “Social Analytics to Encourage Collaboration on the Social Web of News”.

We are extremely proud to be able to co-organize jointly with the DASIG and CNRS-LAMSADE  such an interesting event.

If you have not yet registered, we take this opportunity to remind you to make your Workshop Registration via: http://www.lamsade.dauphine.fr/dssdasig2011/. Thanks.

We are looking forwards to welcome you in University Paris-Dauphine!

Paris, get ready!  Here we go!

Best regards,
The EWG-DSS Coordinators