[APDIO] LAST CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop DGSS, Brisbane, Australia, 8 April 2013

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

!!!! LAST CALL FOR PAPERS

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

In conjunction with the 29th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2013)

http://dgss.vse.gmu.edu/

Brisbane, Australia

8 April 2013

You are invited to participate in 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

2013) in Brisbane, Australia, on April 8-12, 2013. Brisbane is the capital city of the state of Queensland.

The conference will be held at the Sofitel Hotel in the center of Brisbane.

Decision support systems (DSS) are widely used to support business or organizational decision-making.

They are used to inform decisions 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.

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' 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

    - Data Warehousing, Analytics and Big Data for DGSS

    - Cloud computing and DGSS

    - Learning agents for DGSS

    - Business intelligence for DGSS

    - Data mining and knowledge discovery for DGSS

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

    - Optimization methods for DGSS

    - Knowledge and resource discovery for DGSS

    - Uncertain and probabilistic data use for DGSS

* DGSS for different categories of decision

    - Support for recommender systems

    - Support for negotiation

    - 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 for social and mobile networks

    -

* Case studies of DGSS drawn from domains such as:

    - Health care

    - Sustainable manufacturing

    - Energy efficiency and smart grid

    - Environmental systems

    - Military decision making

    - Logistics and supply chain management

IMPORTANT DATES

October 19, 2012 - Paper submissions due

December 5, 2012 - Author notification

December 17, 2012 - Camera ready papers due

April 8, 2013  - 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 2013

Conference, and committed to attend the DGSS Workshop.

Submissions to the Workshop are only accepted pdf format and should be sent via the workshop's

submission site: http://dgss.vse.gmu.edu/submission.html. 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 2013 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. Authors of papers accepted to

ICDE 2013 on a topic relevant to DGSS are invited to present a poster connecting their ICDE paper to to

the topics of DGSS. Such authors should submit an abstract describing their ICDE paper and indicating

its connection to DGSS.

PRESENTATION AND PUBLICATION

ICDE DGSS 2013 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 workshop 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.

We look forward to seeing you in Brisbane in April!

!!!! LAST CALL FOR PAPERS

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

In conjunction with the 29th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2013)

http://dgss.vse.gmu.edu/

Brisbane, Australia

8 April 2013

You are invited to participate in 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 2013) in Brisbane, Australia, on April 8-12, 2013. Brisbane is the capital city of the state of Queensland. The conference will be held at the Sofitel Hotel in the center of Brisbane.

Decision support systems (DSS) are widely used to support business or organizational decision-making. They are used to inform decisions 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.

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' 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

    - Data Warehousing, Analytics and Big Data for DGSS

    - Cloud computing and DGSS

    - Learning agents for DGSS

    - Business intelligence for DGSS

    - Data mining and knowledge discovery for DGSS

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

    - Optimization methods for DGSS

    - Knowledge and resource discovery for DGSS

    - Uncertain and probabilistic data use for DGSS

* DGSS for different categories of decision

    - Support for recommender systems

    - Support for negotiation

    - 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 for social and mobile networks

    -

* Case studies of DGSS drawn from domains such as:

    - Health care

    - Sustainable manufacturing

    - Energy efficiency and smart grid

    - Environmental systems

    - Military decision making

    - Logistics and supply chain management

IMPORTANT DATES

October 19, 2012 - Paper submissions due

December 5, 2012 - Author notification

December 17, 2012 - Camera ready papers due

April 8, 2013  - 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 2013 Conference, and committed to attend the DGSS Workshop.

Submissions to the Workshop are only accepted pdf format and should be sent via the workshop's submission site: http://dgss.vse.gmu.edu/submission.html. 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 2013 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. Authors of papers accepted to ICDE 2013 on a topic relevant to DGSS are invited to present a poster connecting their ICDE paper to to the topics of DGSS. Such authors should submit an abstract describing their ICDE paper and indicating its connection to DGSS.

PRESENTATION AND PUBLICATION

ICDE DGSS 2013 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 workshop 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.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Abdelkader Adla, University of Oran, Algeria

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

Boris Delibasic, U. of Belgrade, Serbia

Alexander Dekhtyar, California Polytechnic State University, USA

Luis Dias, 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-UniversitÀt / UniBw Hamburg, Germany

Tingjian Ge, University of Kentucky, USA

Jorge E. Hernandez, U. of Liverpool, UK

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

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

Roy Rada, University of Maryland-Baltimore County, USA

Ana Respicio, U. of Lisbon, Portugal

Rita Ribeiro, CA3-UNINOVA, Portugal

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 VoÃ, U. of Hamburg, Germany

Roland Weistroffer, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA

Pascale Zarate, Toulouse University - IRIT, France

We look forward to seeing you in Brisbane in April!