[Apdio] New Extended deadline : IFIP8.3/CDM2008/Toulouse : 5 th Call for Papers

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5th Call for Papers: New deadline January 18th 2008

IFIP TC8/WG8.3 Working Conference
International Conference on
Collaborative Decision Making (CDM?08)
Manufacture des Tabacs, Toulouse, France July 1st- 4th 2008
http://www.irit.fr/CDM08/ 


Due to numerous requests the deadline is extended.

New deadline: January 18th 2008

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Organised by
INPT-ENSIACET/IRIT/UT1

Conference chair : Zaraté Pascale, IRIT-ENSIACET-INPT, Toulouse, France

Steering Committee:
Adam Frédéric, University College Cork, Ireland
Burstein Frada, Monash University, Australia
Humphreys Patrick, London School of Economics, UK
Philips - Wren Gloria, Loyola Maryland University, USA
Pino José Alberto, University of Chile, Chile
Respicio Ana, Lisbon University, Portugal
Zaraté Pascale, IRIT-ENSIACET-INPT, Toulouse, France

Organising Committee:
Belaud Jean Pierre, LGC-ENSIACET-INPT, Toulouse, France
Camilleri Guy, IRIT-UPS, Toulouse, France
Ravat Franck, IRIT-UT1, Toulouse, France
Zaraté Pascale, IRIT-ENSIACET-INPT, Toulouse, France

Conference secretary:
Debats Véronique, IRIT, Toulouse, France
Foucaud Florence, INPT-SAIC, Toulouse, France

The IFIP TC8/WG8.3 conferences present the latest innovations and
achievements of academic communities on Decision Support Systems (DSS).
These advances include theory, systems, computer aided methods, algorithms,
techniques, and applications related to supporting decision making.

This conference is supported by the Euro Working Group on DSS (see
http://www.euro-online.org/ ).

The main theme for the 2008 edition of the conference is Collaborative
Decision Making and in particular, addressing the question of how to support
Collaboration in Decision Making? Welcome answers will incorporate key
elements to deal with the complexity of supporting collaborative decision
making. Expected contributions will try to answer to some of the following
questions:
Where does the data for collaborative decision making come from and how is
it assembled?
Who is, or should be, involved in making the decision?
How do teams collaborate to build up common understanding?
How to Tackle Complexity in decision making and decision support?
A special focus on Data, Models and Actors will be taken into account.

Topics : The topics of interest for the conference include, but are not
limited to :
- Facilitation of team coordination and data collection and exchange
- Logistics knowledge collaboration model
- Impact of introducing new technology on collaboration
- Spontaneous collaborations
- Evaluation of the most appropriate collaboration level
- Coordination of distributed supply chain partnerships
- Machine intelligence coupled with human intelligence
- Collaboration across supply networks using intelligent agents
- Knowledge-intensive collaborative design
- On-demand business process-based collaboration
- Utilizing context in knowledge management and collaborative systems
- Collaboration among entities in a network such as schedulers
- Social collaboration systems
- Intellectual capital as a resource network for collaborative decision
making.

Papers focused on other areas linked to DSS area are also welcome, for
example:
- Data-driven DSS (including data mining types of problems)
- Model-driven DSS 
- Intelligent DSS
- Real-time DSS

For additional information and submission, please visit:
http://www.irit.fr/CDM08/ 

A Doctoral Colloquium will be held as part of the conference July 1st 2008
is organised by G. Philips-Wren and D. Paradice. 
PhD students, who are developing their research ideas are encouraged to
submit papers, as well as those who are already well into the execution of
their studies. Both of them are requested to register their own information
and then submit their current works in the part Paper Submission on the web
site http://www.irit.fr/cdm-adm  

PhD students are requested to submit 3-5 A4-pages in length with 2cm margins
all around containing: the title, authors' names and affiliation, surface
and electronic addresses (first page), a 200 words abstract, up to 5
keywords, the text, figures, tables, etc., acknowledgments, and references.
Submissions should be in MSWord format. Only electronic submissions will be
accepted.

Submissions
Authors are requested to register their own information and then submit
original, complete papers in the part Paper Submission on the web site
http://www.irit.fr/cdm-adm 

Authors are requested to submit full papers addressing any of the topics of
interest for this conference. Each paper should not exceed 10 A4-pages in
length with 2cm margins all around containing: the title, authors' names and
affiliation, surface and electronic addresses (first page), a 200 words
abstract, up to 5 keywords, the text, figures, tables, etc.,
acknowledgments, and references. Papers should be in MSword format. Only
electronic submissions will be accepted. Authors are requested to contact
cdm08@irit.fr for any more information.

Each paper will be reviewed by at least two referees. Accepted papers will
be published only if at least one of the authors is registered to attend the
conference in due time. Accepted papers with at least one registered author
will appear in the Proceedings of the Conference published as a book.

Best papers will be forwarded for submission to several special issues for
high level journals in the DSS area like Journal of Decision Systems,
Intelligent Decision technologies, Group Decision and Negotiation.

Time Schedule
New Extended Deadline			January 18th 2008
Doctoral Colloquium submission due	February 29th 2008
Notification to authors			February 22nd 2008
Final Version of accepted papers	March 28th 2008
Conference					July 1st to 4th 2008

Language The official language of the conference is English.

Conference location Toulouse is a large city in the south west of France in
the Midi Pyrénées country. For more information about Toulouse and its
country please visit: http://www.cict.fr/toulouse/EBienvenue.html 


Scientific program committee: 
Adam 	Frederic	Cork, Ireland
Antunes	Carlos	Coimbra, Portugal
Antunes	Pedro	Lisbon, Portugal
Arnott	David	Melbourne, Australia
Bannon	Liam	Ireland
Belaud	Jean Pierre	Toulouse, France
Brezillon	Patrick	Paris, France
Bui	Tung	Hawaii, USA
Burstein	Frada	Melbourne, Australia
Camilleri	Guy	Toulouse, France
Carlsson	Christer	Turku, Finland
Carlsson	Sven	Suede
Climaco	Joao	Coimbra, Portugal
Csaki	Csaba	Budapest, Hungary
Dargam	Fatima	Graz, Austria
Forgionne	Guisseppi	Baltimore, USA
Floquet	Pascal	Toulouse, France
Graeme	Shanks	Melbourne, Australia
Haettenschwiler	Pius	Fribourg, Switzerland
Huber	George	USA
Humphreys	Patrick	London, UK
Jacquet-Lagrèze	Eric	Paris, France
Jelassi	Tawfik	Paris, France
Jones	Garrick	London, UK
Keenan	Peter	Ireland
Kersten	Gregory	Carleton, USA
Le Lann	Jean Marc	Toulouse, France
Loebbecke	Claudia	Koeln, Deutschland
McCosh	Andrew	UK
Meredith	Robert	Melbourne, Australia
Mora	Manuel	Mexico
Moreno	Jose	Zaragoza, Spain
Norese	Maria Franca	Turin, Italy
O'Leary	Dan	USA
Paprika	Zita	Budapest, Hungary
Paradice	David	USA
Pino	Jose	Santiago, Chile
Pomerol	Jean Charles	Paris, France
Rosenthal-Sabroux	Camille	Paris, France
Power	Daniel	Iowa, USA
Ravat	Franck	Toulouse, France
Respicio	Ana	Lisbon, Portugal
Ribeiro	Rita	Lisbon, Portugal
Shakun	Melvin	New York, USA
Soubie	Jean Luc	Toulouse, France
Soule-Dupuy	Chantal	Toulouse, France
Sprague	Ralph	Hawaii, USA
Stanek	Stanislaw	Katowice, Poland
Thevenin	Jean Marc	Toulouse, France
Vetschera	Rudolf	Wien, Austria
Walden	Pirkko	Turku, Finland
Wang	Fen	Quincy, USA
Wang	Ye Diana	Virginia, USA
Weber	Gerard Wilhelm	Ankara, Turkey
Widmeyer	George	USA
Winter	Robert	Switzerland
Wren	Gloria	Loyola, USA
Zaraté	Pascale	Toulouse, France

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Pascale Zaraté
http://www.irit.fr/~Pascale.Zarate
INPT - ENSIACET 
118 route de Narbonne
31077 Toulouse Cedex 4, France
Pascale.Zarate@ensiacet.fr
+ 33 5 61 55 63 47
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IRIT 
118 route de Narbonne
31062 Toulouse Cedex 9, France
Pascale.Zarate@irit.fr 
tel : +33 62 88 58 36
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