
EWG-DSS London-2011
June
23rd to June 24th, 2011
Important Dates:
Submission of Papers & Abstracts: up to 9/05/2011
Notification of Acceptance: 23/05/2011
Registration Deadline: 30/05/2011
The
EURO Working Group on Decision Support Systems (EWG-DSS),
in cooperation with Birbeck University of
London,
invites you to participate on the “EWG-DSS London-2011"
Workshop on Decision Systems period of
June 23rd
to June 24th, 2011.
The
purpose of this Workshop is to provide an informal setting in
which the participants, professionals of the research and
application areas related to Decision Making and Decision
Support, will have the opportunity to discuss
technical, methodological and social aspects for developing
DSSs.
Invited Speaker:
Alex Duffy (Professor, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow,
Scotland)
Talk:
“(to
be announced)”
Special Talks:
Philip Powell (Executive Dean, Professor of Management at the
School of
Business, Economics and Informatics at Birkbeck, University of
London)
Talk:
“On-line game participation: Competition and Hedonism”
Rita Ribeiro (Founding
member and Coordinator of the CA3 -
Computational Intelligence Research Group at UNINOVA,
Portugal)
Talk:
“Decision Making Challenges in Space Applications”
The
members of the EWG-DSS are expected to participate and to
encourage the participation of other related professionals, so
that further collaboration can be promoted on a larger scale
during the workshop. The workshop will
also embed a business meeting of the Euro Working Group on DSS
at its last session.
The
“EWG-DSS London-2011” Workshop will take place at the School
of Business, Economics and Informatics, at Birkbeck,
University of London (Malet Street, Bloomsbury London WC1E
7HX, UK). Birbeck is located in the heart of central London,
near the British Museum and very easy to be reached by all
public means of transportation.
Call for Papers:
The
“EWG-DSS London-2011” Workshop accepts submission of papers,
addressing topics in research and application of Decision
Systems in the form of:
Abstracts;
Short/Extended Abstracts; or Full Papers.
Submissions
may include, among others, the following topics:
- Group Support Systems / Distributed / Collaborative Decision
Making
-
Methods, Languages and Tools to support Decision Making
-
Web 2.0 Systems for Decision Support & Globalisation
Context
-
Spatial-temporal Decision Support Systems
-
Knowledge Management & Decision Support Systems
-
Knowledge and Resource Discovery & Decision making
-
Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing
-
Negotiation Support Systems
Proposals for panel or demo presentations in special sessions
are very welcome.
Contributions:
We
encourage the submission of papers addressing topics in
research and application of Decision Systems. Authors are
requested to submit either Abstracts (1 page), Short Papers
(4/6 A4 pages) or Full Papers (~ 12 A4 pages) in electronic
form (MS-Word and PDF) to the email: ewg-dss@fccdp.com up to 9/05/2011 using
the Templates given below for download (Word “doc” format).
Templates to download:
EWG-DSS_Extended Abstract Template
EWG-DSS_Short or Full PaperTemplate
Workshop
Proceedings: Only
the Abstracts of the submitted work (first page of full
papers or first page of extended abstracts) will be published
in the Workshop Proceedings (Book of Abstracts). However, all
submissions (abstracts, full papers, etc) will be distributed
in an data-CD of the Workshop, which will also include the
“List of Participants” and the pdf file of the “Book of
Abstracts”.
Workshop
Important Dates:
Submission of Papers & Abstracts: up to
9/05/2011
Notification
of Acceptance: 23/05/2011
Registration
Deadline: 30/05/2011
Workshop:
23-24/06/2011
Workshop Publications:
Special
Issues of DSS Journals
will be published with selected papers presented during the
“EWG-DSS London-2011 Workshop”.
Planned
Publications:
- Proceedings
of the “EWG-DSS London-2011
Workshop” (Book of Abstracts),
published in time for distribution to the workshop
participants.
Editors: Fatima Dargam, Boris Delibasic, Jorge E. Hernández,
Shaofeng Liu,
Rita Ribeiro, Pascale Zaraté.
- Special
Issue on “Networking
Decision Making & Negotiation” of the
IJDSST – International
Journal of Decision Support Systems Technology,
IGI Global Publisher. This publication will consist of
thoroughly
revised final papers selected from the “EWG-DSS London-2011
Workshop”.
Guest Editors: Fatima Dargam, Boris Delibasic, Jorge E.
Hernández, Shaofeng Liu.
- Special
Issue on “Collaborative
Decision Support Systems” of the of the
IJIDS – International Journal of
Information and Decision Sciences,
InderScience Publishers. This publication will consist of
thoroughly revised
final papers selected from the “EWG-DSS London-2011
Workshop”.
Guest Editors: Jason Papathanasiou, Shaofeng Liu,
Pascale Zaraté.
- Book of
Post-Proceedings of the Springer Series LNBIP – Lecture Notes in Business
Information Processing, Springer Publisher. This publication will
consist of
thoroughly revised and extended final papers selected from
the
“EWG-DSS London-2011 Workshop” in June 2011 and from the
“EWG-DSS Paris-2011 Workshop” in the end of this year, in
Paris.
Guest Editors: Jorge E. Hernández, Pascale Zaraté, Fatima
Dargam, Boris Delibasic,
Shaofeng Liu, Rita Ribeiro.
Please
visit the workshop page http://londonewgdss2011.wordpress.com/call-for-papers/ for more details about how the guest editors
plan to select papers for the Journal Special Issues and
for the Springer LNBIP Book.
For
further Workshop details, please visit http://londonewgdss2011.wordpress.com/registration/ for
registration;
and http://londonewgdss2011.wordpress.com/workshop-program/ for
further information about the workshop program.
We are looking forwards to meeting you in
London!
The EWG-DSS Coordination Board
ewg-dss@fccdp.com