EWG-DSS Liverpool-2012 Workshop

Workshop Call for Participation (pdf file)

The 1st Meeting/Workshop of the EWG-DSS group in 2012, the “EWG-DSS Liverpool 2012″, will take place in the University of Liverpool, in the UK, during the period of April 12th to 13th, 2012. You are invited to check the Workshop Homepage for more details about it. The Call for Participation can also be viewed via this link here.

EWG-DSS DSS Stream in the EURO XXV Conference in Vilnius

The second meeting of the EWG-DSS in 2012, will be held within the DSS Stream of the EURO XXV in Vilnius, Lithuania, in 2012.

The Call for Participation can also be viewed via * this link here.

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

 Participate!!!!

EURO XXV – 2012
Stream on Decision Support Systems

Call for Papers (pdf file)

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:
DEADLINE for ABSTRACTS:  February 29^th, 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

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

Dear Colleagues!

The EWG-DSS has launched this year a motivating research initiative for young researchers of an annual “EWG-DSS-Award“.

The annual “EWG-DSS-Award” will choose the best and most innovative among submitted and presented work by students or young researchers, in the EWG-DSS organized workshops and conference streams of the same year, to be rewarded with a modest prize in money.

-  How to apply? Participate in the EWG-DSS organized Workshops and Session Streams each year and allow your work to be part of our selection!

For 2011, applicable work submitted to the EWG-DSS London-2011 Workshop on Decision Systems in June 2011 and to the EWG-DSS Stream on Collaborative Decision Making of the EWG-DSS / DASIG  Paris-2011 Joint-Workshop in November 2011 (Call-for-Participation still open!) will be taken into consideration for this award.

The “EWG-DSS-Award 2011″ will be of € 300.00. For the next years, the EWG-DSS hopes to count with sponsorship from research funds and from the industrial sector to make the “EWG-DSS-Award” more financially appealing.

We hope you like and support this initiative by participating and/or disseminating this information among your students, colleagues, research partners and collaborators. Guidelines and requisites for the work selection, ranking and final choice for the “EWG-DSS Award” will soon be published in the EWG-DSS Homepage.

The “EWG-DSS Award 2011″ can still be yours!   Participate!

 Best regards,
The EWG-DSS Coordinators

EWG-DSS / DASIG
Paris-2011 Joint-Workshop

Deadline for Papers’ Submission (EXTENDED!!):  30/10/2011

Dear Members of the EWG-DSS,
EURO Working Group on Decision Support Systems !

The EWG-DSS invites you to participate in our second Meeting & Workshop in 2011, which will take place in Paris.

This time the EWG-DSS organizes jointly with the  DASIG  Decision Analysis Special Interest Group from the British OR Society and CNRS-LAMSADE the “EWG-DSS / DASIG Paris-2011 Joint-Workshop”, which will take place in Paris Dauphine University in France, in the period of November 30^th to December 1^st, 2011.

The “EWG-DSS / DASIG Paris-2011 Joint-Workshop” is supported by EURO and by LAMSADE: a joint-laboratory of the University Paris-Dauphine and the CNRS, organized with the special support from our colleague and EWG-DSS founding member Alexis Tsoukias from LAMSADE.

Following the success of the “EWG-DSS London-2011 Workshop″, the main purpose of this Joint-Workshop is to provide an informal setting in which the participants, from both EWG-DSS and DASIG groups, can have the opportunity to meet and discuss technical, methodological and social aspects involved in the development of Decision Systems.

The Workshop comprises two Streams. The “Stream on Collaborative Decision Making on the 30^th of November, 2011” organized by the EWG-DSS and the “Stream on Policy Analytics on the 1^st of December, 2011” organized by the DASIG Decision Analysis Special Interest Group.

For the EWG-DSS Stream on Collaborative Decision Making, members of the EWG-DSS working group are expected to participate and to encourage the participation of other related professionals, so that further collaboration can be promoted on a larger scale.

Call for Papers: EWG-DSS / DASIG – Paris-2011 Workshop

Workshop Important Dates:

Submission of Papers & Abstracts  (EWG-DSS Stream): up to 30/10/2011
Notification of Acceptance: 05/11/2011
Participate!

Details about the Participation, Program and Registration of this Workshop will be continuously updated in the Workshop web-site ( follow the link: http://ewgdssparis2011.wordpress.com/ ).

We thank you in advance for your participation interest.
We hope to see you in Paris!

The EWG-DSS Coordination Board

Dear EWG-DSS Members!

The EWG-DSS Coordination Board is currently working on the edition of the EWG-DSS 2011-Newsletter.  If you have any contribution to be included in it, please let us know.

Contributing to the EWG-DSS Newsletters:

Every member of the EWG-DSS is very welcome to contribute to the Newsletters.
Among others, subjects can be related to:

• Project Descriptions
• Recent Publications
• PhD Dissertations
• Book Presentations
• Book Reviews
• Research Group Presentations
• Research Perspectives
• Forthcoming Events
• Call for Papers
• Call for Participation
• General Announcements of the EWG-DSS Members
• General Announcements concerning related activities in other EURO Working Groups

All Newsletters pdf files can be downloaded from the EWG-DSS IRIT Server and the most recent ones can also be viewed and downloaded in the EWG-DSS SlideShare Account.

Contributions to the EWGDSS Newsletters should be sent to us either until September 25th, 2011 via email to <ewg-dss@fccdp.com>  with the subject “EWG-DSS Newsletter”, or  via the EWG-DSS Blog in the form of a “Comment”.

Participate and contibute to the next edition of the EWG-DSS Newsletter! Make your research work and your announcements visible to our group members! It is certainly also for your own benefit!

The EWG-DSS Coordinators
ewg-dss@fccdp.com

The EWG-DSS Coordination Board would appreciate to count with your feedback answers and comments about the last EWG-DSS London-2011 Workshop organized in London, at Birkbeck University of London, so that the next EWG-DSS Meetings and Workshops organizations can be improved.

To register your feedback, please visit the link below, answer the given questions and write a comment.  Link:  http://doodle.com/q2appixqm9inhmnv
Thanks!

Best regards,
The EWG-DSS Coordinators