[APDIO] Call for papers DGSS, in conjunction with the 28th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2012)

[João Lourenço <joao.lourenco@ist.utl.pt>]

Caros colegas,

Chamo a vossa atenção de que o deadline para submissão de artigos é já a 24 de Outubro de 2011.

Cumprimentos,

João Lourenço

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Workshop on Data-Driven Decision Guidance and Support Systems (DGSS)

In conjunction with the 28th IEEE International Conference on Data  

Engineering (ICDE 2012)

http://dgss.vse.gmu.edu

Washington DC, USA

April 1, 2012

You are invited to submit a paper to the upcoming Workshop on Data-

Driven Decision Guidance and Support Systems (DGSS), to be held as  

part of the 28th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering  

(ICDE 2012) in April 2012 at the Renaissance Arlington Capital View  

Hotel in Arlington, Virginia, just across the Potomac River from  

Washington DC, USA.

Decision support systems (DSS) are widely used to support business or  

organizational decision-making at the management, operations and  

planning levels of an organization. Decision guidance systems (DGS)  

are decision support systems that go beyond organizing and displaying  

information, providing actionable recommendations to and extracting  

knowledge from human decision-makers. More specifically, Decision  

Guidance and Support Systems (DGSS) often need to

    - use and mine large amounts of data collected from multiple sources

    - learn deterministic or stochastic models of underlying processes  

from historical data

    - learn objectives or decision preferences from decision  

makers‚Äö responses

    - perform optimization under diverse constraints, e.g., from  

business or engineering limitations and laws of nature, and

    - present and justify actionable recommendations to decision makers.

AUDIENCE AND SCOPE

This workshop will bring together DGSS researchers and practitioners  

to present novel methodologies, models, algorithms, systems, tools,  

applications and case studies of DGSS. Most importantly, the workshop  

will be a forum to discuss how to utilize advances from multiple  

disciplines for building DGSS that can intelligently merge human  

knowledge and expertise with formal mathematical models to make better  

decisions. The workshop will include both formal presentations and  

informal discussion of important research directions in DGSS, and  

their interactions with Knowledge and data engineering.

TOPICS

The areas below are intended as general guidance.  Contributions are  

welcome on any topic related to DGSS and any domain using DGSS.

  * Fundamental technical challenges for DGSS

     - Knowledge management for DGSS

     - Advanced analytics for managerial DGSS

     - OLAP and Data Warehousing for DGSS

     - Cloud computing and DGSS

     - Learning agents for DGSS

     - Data mining and business intelligence for DGSS

     - Regression, time series, and other statistical methods for DGSS

     - Optimization methods for DGSS

     - Knowledge and resource discovery for DGSS

  * DGSS for different categories of decision

     - Negotiation support

     - Decision dynamics, processes and issues for decisions with  

multiple stakeholders

     - Group, distributed, and collaborative DGSS

     - Crowd-sourcing and collective intelligence for DGSS

     - DGSS for strategic, tactical and operational level decisions

  * DGSS applications and case studies drawn from domains such as:

     - Health care

     - Sustainable development

     - Energy efficiency and smart grid

     - Environmental systems

     - Military decision making

     - Logistics and supply chain management

     - Facility location decisions

IMPORTANT DATES

October 24 - Paper submissions due

December 7 - Author notification

December 19 - Camera ready papers due

April 1 - Workshop on Decision Guidance and Support Systems

SUBMISSION DETAILS

Each submission will be evaluated for acceptability by at least three  

members of the Program Committee. Decisions about acceptance will be  

based on relevance to the workshop theme, originality, potential  

significance, topicality and clarity. Since all accepted papers will  

be presented at the workshop, we require that at least one of the  

submitting authors must be a registered participant at the ICDE 2012  

Conference, and committed to attend the DGSS Workshop.

Submissions to the Workshop are accepted only in pdf format and should  

be sent via the workshop submission site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgss12

.  Papers must be formatted in the IEEE camera-ready format.  

Submissions must not exceed 12 pages, including figures. Submissions  

exceeding this limit will not be reviewed.

Following the general acceptance rules of the ICDE 2011 conference,  

papers that, at the time of submission, are under review for or have  

already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal or  

another conference will not be accepted to the DGSS workshop.

PRESENTATION AND PUBLICATION

ICDE 2011 will be a full-day workshop. The sessions will be planned in  

a format that invites an open debate and discussion of fundamental  

challenges of data-driven DGSS.  All papers accepted to the DGSS  

Workshop will be presented during the workshop and published in the  

IEEE ICDE proceedings, which will be available as a separate  

publication after the Conference. In addition, technical papers  

accepted for presentation at the DGSS Workshop will be eligible for  

participating in an international journal special issue or in a post-

proceedings book.

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

Alexander Brodsky, George Mason University, USA, brodsky@gmu.edu

Kathryn Laskey, George Mason University, USA, klaskey@gmu.edu

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

The confirmed members of the program committee are listed below (in  

alphabetical order)

Abdelkader Adla, Paul Sabatier University, France

Faramarz Agahi, U. of Gothenburg & Chalmers U. of Technology, Sweden

Malak Al-Nory, Effat University, Saudi Arabia

Khalid Alodhaibi, George Mason University & IBM, USA

Pedro Antunes, U. of Lisboa, Portugal

Marco Bohanec, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia

Mihai Boicu, George Mason University, USA

Patrick Brezillon, U. Paris VI, France

Alexander Brodsky, George Mason University, USA

Peggy Brouse, George Mason University, USA

Frada Burstein, Monash University, Australia

Candea Ciprian, Ropardo SRL, Romania

Csaba Csaki, University College Cork, Ireland

Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy

Fatima Dargan, SimTech Simulation Technology, Austria

Alexander Dekhtyar, California Polytechnic State University, USA

Boris Delibasic, U. of Belgrade, Serbia

Luis Diaz, U. of Coimbra - INESCC, Portugal

Omar El-Gayar, Dakota State University, USA

Sean Eom, Southeast Missouri State University, USA

Sergio Fernandez, Polytechnic Institute in Setubal, Portugal

Andreas Fink, Helmut-Schmidt-Universität / UniBw Hamburg, Germany

Tingjian Ge, University of Kentucky, USA

Jorge E. Hernandez, U. of Liverpool, UK

Liaquant Hossain, U. of Sydney, Australia

Patrick Humphreys, London School of Economics, UK

Antonio Jiménez Martin, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

Kathrin Kirchner, Schiller University Jena, Germany

Kathryn B. Laskey, George Mason University, USA

Jessica Lin, George Mason University, USA

Isabelle Linden, University of Namur (FUNDP), Belgium

Shaofeng Liu, U. of Plymouth, UK

Eurico Lopez, Instituto Politechnico C Branco, Portugal

Joao Lourenco, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal

Armando B., Mendes, Azores University, Portugal

Daniel O'Leary, U. of Southern California (USC), USA

Jason Papathanasiou, U. of Macedonia, Greece

Gloria Phillips-Wren, Loyola University Maryland, USA

Jens Pohl, Cal Poly University, San Luis Obispo, USA

Roy Rada, University of Maryland-Baltimore County, USA

Ana Respicio, U. of Lisbon, Portugal

Rita Ribeiro, CA3-UNINOVA, Portugal

Ines Saad, U. of Picardie Jules Verne, France

David Sammon, University College Cork, Ireland

Mareike Schoop, U. of Hohenheim, Germany

Hans-Jeurgen Sebastian, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Stanislaw Stanek, U. of Economics in Katowice, Poland

Rudolf  Vetschera, U. of Vienna, Austria

Stefan Voß, U. of Hamburg, Germany

X. Sean Wang, Fudan University, China

Roland Weistroffer, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA

Pascale Zarate, Toulouse University - IRIT, France

We look forward to seeing you in Arlington in April!