Newsletter EWG-DSS Nr.15 2016-2017

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No. 15, Year 2016 / 2017
EWG-DSS Newsletter
Newsletter of the EURO Working
Group on Decision Support System
In this Issue
Editorial........................................ 1
EWG-DSS Members .................... 2
EWG-DSS Channels.................... 2
Interview ...................................... 3
EWG-DSS Award......................... 5
Publications................................. 5
EWG-DSS Events ...................... 10
EWG-DSS Meetings .................. 10
Events in 2016........................... 11
Events in 2017........................... 12
Events in 2018........................... 13
Best Paper Prizes...................... 13
Other Events.............................. 14
EWG-DSS Collab-Net Project... 16
News about Members……......…16
Other Announcements ............. 17
Editorial Board
The Newsletter of the EURO WG on
Decision Support Systems is
annually edited by its current
Coordination Board Members:
PascaleZaraté; FátimaDargam;
Boris Delibasic; Shaofeng Liu;
Isabelle Linden and Jason
Papathanasiou.
Comments and announcements for
the next issues of the EWG-DSS
Newsletter should be sent to the
email address below with the
subject: “Newsletter”.
Email: ewg-dss@fccdp.com
Editorial(by the EURO Working Group on DSS Coordination Board Members)
Dear Euro Working Group members! Dear Friends!
It is our pleasure to encourage you to read the 2016/2017 issue of the EWG-DSS Newsletter,
which includes the summary of our group‘s activities in this period, announcements from group
members and upcoming events.
In 2016 the EWG-DSS managed to organize with success two events, namely: the 2nd
EWG-DSS
International Conference on Decision Support System Technology ICDSST-2016 in Plymouth, UK,
from May 23rd
to 25th
, 2016; and the DSS Stream at the EURO-2016, the 28th European Conference
for Operational Research and Management Science (ORMS), organized by the European
Association of Operational Research Societies in conjunction with the Polish OR Society. The EURO
2016 took place at the Poznan University in Poznan, Poland from July 3rd to 6th, 2016.
The ICDSST Conferences organized by the EWG-DSS offer the European and International DSS
Communities, including the academic and the industrial sectors, opportunities to present state-of-the-
art DSS developments and to discuss about the current challenges that surround Decision-Making
processes, focusing on realistic but innovative solutions; as well as on potential new business
opportunities. This year the ICDSST 2017 happens in Namur, Belgium, locally organized by Isabelle
Linden and her research group in the University of Namur. Read more about it in this issue.
In 2016 the EWG-DSS upgraded its management structure and included in it an Advisory Board
(AB), which is chaired by Rita Ribeiro. The AB includes experienced researchers and EWG-DSS
long-term members that have contributed to the DSS field and to the activities of the group. More
details about the EWG-DSS Advisory Board and its members can be read in the News section of this
Newsletter.
The publications produced by the EWG-DSS during the 2016-2017 period include: the
Proceedings of the ICDSST 2016 conference; More information about those editions can be found
in the Publications section of this Newsletter.
All prizes and award initiatives have been successfully carried on by the EWG-DSS. Among
them, we cite: the promotion of the ―Best Papers Prizes‖ in our Conferences, for which some
sponsor-companies distribute licenses of simulation and DSS-area-related software packages as
prizes for best presented papers; and the EWG-DSS Yearly Award for young researchers. Read
more about it in the EWG-DSS Award section.
For the year 2018, the EWG-DSS has the pleasure to announce its 4th
International Conference
on Decision Support System Technology ICDSST-2018as a joint event with the PROMETHEE Days
2018. The joint-conference ICDSST & PROMETHEE Days 2018 will take place in Heraklion, Crete,
Greece, from May 22nd
to 23rd
, 2018. The main focus of the ICDSST-2018will be Sustainable Data-
Driven & Evidence-based Decision Support with Applications to the Environment and Energy
Sectors. All EWG-DSS Members are welcome to participate. Additionally, users of PROMETHEE will
be able to disseminate their theoretical developments or practical applications of the PROMETHEE
methods in the ICDSST & PROMETHEE Days 2018. A full report about the Joint-Conference in
2018 is in the ―EWG-DSS Events‖ section of this issue, along with the other upcoming events.
This Newsletter Nr.15also presents to you an interview with Prof. Bertrand Mareschal, from the
ULB – Université Libre de Bruxelles, Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management in
Brussels, Belgium. A well known academic in the areas of Statistics and Operational Research and
organizer of the PROMETHEE DAYS events, as well as a long-term EWG-DSS member. It is a
pleasure for us to have Bertrand‘s interview in this issue. We hope you enjoy reading it!
Our research group reached our planned collaboration goals in the covered period of
2016/2017 and we are very happy about the successful impact that we have made so far within the
DSS communities in Europe and Worldwide. As we always remind you,: all this would not have been
possible without the collaboration of all of the EWG-DSS members. We sincerely wish to thank All of
You for your continued support and contributions. We appreciated your support in 2016 / 2017 and
we look forward to experience fruitful collaboration with you in the years to come!
Best wishes from the EWG-DSS Coordination Board& AB Chair!
Boris Delibasic, Isabelle Linden, Rita Ribeiro, Fátima Dargam, Shaofeng Liu,
Pascale Zaraté and Jason Papathanasiou.

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EWG-DSS Members
The EWG-DSShas currently
over270officially registered members
(status of May 2017) in its mailing list;
and 304members in its LinkedIn group.
Since 1989, the EWG-DSS membership
has grown substantially. We are very
proud to continuously attract the interest
of new members and the participation of
old ones in the organized scientific
events and editions of the group.
An updated list of registered members
with their respective email-addresses
can be sent to you, by request (mailto:
ewg-dss@fccdp.com). If you are a
member, you can also check the EWG-
DSS list of members and their research
interaction via the link http://www.collab-
net.com/, using your e-mail address to
login.
EWG-DSS
New Management Structure
In 2016 the EWG-DSS upgraded its
management structure and included in it
an Advisory Board (AB), which is
chaired by Rita Ribeiro. The new
management strucuture, in which the
AB takes part is illustrated below.
Apart from the AB, two teams
formed by the EWG-DSS Members who
collaborate with EWG-DSS joint editions
and research projects:an Editorial Team
(ET) that is composed of researchers
that have guest-edited Journal Special
Issues and Springer Books with the CB;
and a Scientific Collaboration Team
(SCT) that includes the researchers who
are involved with EWG-DSS research
projects and initiatives, like for instance
the Collab_Net Project. Only the
Coordination & Executive Board CB-EB
can officially report to EURO and reply
to EWG-DSS Members. The Board of
Assistants (BA) is to be formed by
young researchers linked to the CB-EB
members, in order to assist them with
the EWG-DSS annual tasks.
Board and Team members can be in
more than one of the groups of the
EWG-DSS new defined Management
Structure. See figure below. However,
the members of the Coordination Board
are not members of the Advisory Board,
and vice-versa.
The EWG-DSS will notify all members
about further details of the other boards
and teams of this structure soon.
EWG-DSS Advisory Board:
The AB includes experienced
researchers and EWG-DSS long-term
members that have contributed to the
DSS field and to the activities of the
group. The Advisory Board members
are expected to promote the EWG-DSS
organized conferences and activities
among your collaborators; support the
EWG-DSS CB with manuscripts
reviewing tasks; participate as actively
as possible in the EWG-DSS organized
events and activities, including
conferences, projects and publication-
editions; try to attend the annual
conference of the EWG-DSS, the
ICDSST; and bring new ideas for
enhancing and innovating the EWG-
DSS activities and organized events.
Advisory Board Members:
Currently the EWG-DSS Advisory Board
members are the following:
Prof. Rita Ribeiro (AB Chair)
UNINOVA University, Lisbon, Portugal Prof. Alexis Tsoukias
Prof. José Maria Moreno
University of Zaragoza, Spain
Prof. Alexis Tsoukias
CNRS-LAMSADE, France
Prof. Philip Powell
Birkbeck, University of London, UK
Prof. Adiel Teixeira de Almeida
Federal University of Pernambuco,
Brazil
Prof. Marko Bohanec
Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Dr. Pavlos Delias
Eastern Macedonia and
Thrace Institute of
Technology, Greece
Prof. D. Marc Kilgour
Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
Dr. Jorge Hernández
University of Liverpool, UK
Photo taken in 2016 in an informal meeting in
Plymouth, with some members of the EWG-
DSS Coordination and Advisory Boards.
If you wish to have more information
about the EWG-DSS Advisory Board,
contact Rita Ribeiro by e-mail:
rar@uninova.pt.
EWG-DSS Channels
The EWG-DSS communication
channels facilitate the interaction among
the working group members and
between the Coordination Board and all
members.
EWG-DSS Mailing-List:
ewg-dss@irit.fr
This mailing-list address is devoted only
to the registered EWG-DSS members
for announcements, projects
information, as well as calls for
publications. The EWG-DSS Mailing list
is managed within the IRIT Server.
 EWG-DSS – IRIT Server
https://wwwsecu.irit.fr/listes/info/ewg
-dss
The EWG-DSS Server, hosted by IRIT,
contains all the EWG-DSS shared files.
To access the server you need to be a
registered member of the group and
use your e-mail as login. Via the option
―Review Members‖, one is able to
check the e-mail addresses of each
member.

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EWG-DSS Web-Links:
 EWG-DSS – Blog
http://ewgdss.wordpress.com/
In the EWG-DSS blog you find up-to-
date information about the group‘s
activities,projects, awards, newsletters,
research collaborations, publications
and links to the organized conferences.
You can also use the EWG-DSS Blog to
send messages to the Coordination
Board and to register as a new member.
 EWG-DSS – EURO Homepage
http://www.euro-
online.org/web/ewg/10/ewg-decision-
support-systems
The EWG-DSS page at the EURO
online site is the DSS Working Group‘s
official homepage. There you find a
summary of the detailed information you
find in the EWG-DSSBlog and the links
totheDSSorganized Streams in EURO
K Conferences, our Annual Events;
Conferences; Meetings; Awards, etc.
 EWG-DSS – LinkedIn Group
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=
&gid=1961459&trk=anet_ug_grppro
The Linked-In EWG-DSS Group has
currently over 300members. This group
is open to all Linked-In users. There you
find briefings of the EWG-DSS‘s
activities, discussions of related topics,
job opportunity announcements,
conferences calls for participation,
Journals calls for papers, etc. You are
also very welcome to post your
announcements in it. If you like
networkingand you wish to make your
announcements more visible to a wider
and selective audience, you should take
advantage of this platform! interact with.
 EWG-DSS – Slideshare Account
http://www.slideshare.net/ewgdss
In the EWG-DSS Slideshare
account you find all the digital versions
of the EWG-DSS Newsletters, as well
as some online presentations. If you
wish to share some of your research
presentations with us, you are also
welcome to use this account. Please
contact us for more details.
 EWG-DSS – Twitter Account
https://twitter.com/EWGDSS
The EWG-DSS Twitter account is
operative since 2014 and has
continuously gained attention of several
group members, collaborators and ICT
professionals. There you can be
updated with short announcements of
our events and publications. We also
use the EWG-DSS Twitter account to
post pertinent information about our ICT
areas of research. Follow us on
Twitterto get breaking news of our
activities within the DSS communities in
Europe and Worldwide!
Remember:
“Our communication channels
are our main tools to cooperate!”
Interview
Prof. Bertrand Mareschal
Professor of Statistics and
Operational Research, ULB -
UniversitéLibre de Bruxelles, Solvay
Brussels School of Economics and
Management,1050 Brussels, Belgium.
Email: bmaresc@ulb.ac.be,
Homepage: http://www.promethee-
gaia.net
EWG-DSS: Dear Bertrand, thank you
very much for agreeing to this interview.
First, let us know a few things about
your background.
BM: After attending classical studies
and learning ancient Greek and Latin at
school, I decided to learn Mathematics
at the ULB University of Brussels. I
graduated in 1983 and obtained a
Doctorate in Science in 1989 from the
same university.
In 1982, I took an elective course on
Operational Research. It was nice to
learn mathematical programming and
other optimization techniques and to
explore more applied mathematics. I
then decided to do my graduate thesis
on this topic and went to ask the OR
professor for a thesis subject. The OR
professor was Jean-Pierre Brans and he
was back from a conference in Québec
City where he had presented for the first
time the bases of the PROMETHEE
Multicriteria Decision Aid methods.This
was the beginning of a 30-year story
with Jean-Pierre and with
PROMETHEE.
After completing my doctoral thesis in
the field of Multicriteria Decision Aid
(MCDA) in 1989, I started an academic
career at the Solvay Brussels School of
Economics and Management. I am
currently teaching statistics, operational
research and decision aid.
EWG-DSS: Can you tell us more about
the development of Multicriteria
Decision Aid and its interaction with
Decision Support Systems?
BM: Back in 1983 when I attended an
international OR conference (EURO VI,
in Vienna) for the first time, things were
quite different from now: conference
fees were much cheaper, attendance
and the number of parallel sessions
were quite lower, conviviality and quality
were much higher, and MCDA was not
as widespread as it is today.
Multicriteria methods were burgeoning,
with many new proposals appearing
every year. Computers were mostly
non-interactive mainframes and it was
very difficult to use multicriteria methods
for solving actual decision problems.
At EURO VI, Jean-Pierre Brans
proposed to organize EURO Summer
Institutes (ESI) gathering young
European promising researchers around
specific fields. I took part to the 2
nd
ESI
organized in Brussels in 1985 about
MCDA. In 1989, the 6
th
ESI took place
in Portugal and was about Decision
Support Systems (DSS).
At that time, the border between MCDA
and DSS was faint as DSS needed
decision aid tools and MCDA needed to
be integrated into wider decision
systems. Besides, during the 1980‘s,
personal computers appeared,
spreadsheet and other software
appeared and people started to use
these for decision support.

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In July 1990, I made a presentation of
the PROMCALC Decision Support
System at the 1
st
Meeting of the EWG-
DSS in Fontainebleau. At that time
PROMCALC was one of the first
interactive MCDA software, based on
the PROMETHEE methods.
From that time on, MCDA and DSS
have much developed and have
become important fields of OR.
EWG-DSS: Why is MCDA so
important today?
BM: Decisions are made every day.
They shape our world. It is important
that they are made as well as possible,
and that as good as possible decisions
are made. This can be achieved in
different ways.
Decisions can be made using a
qualitative approach, considering the
feeling or the expertise of decision
makers. This has been done for
centuries, with various results. Today
however this approach has reached its
limits, mostly because our brains have
limits when it comes to objectively and
exhaustively analyze large amounts of
data.
Alternatively, quantitative approaches
can be used. They rely on modelling the
decision problems and using
mathematical methods and the power of
computers to provide decision makers
with sound decision advice. Different
types of models can be developed.
Historically most classical OR models
are unicriterion ones: they are based on
a single and often economic criterion,
such as profit or cost, and they seek to
achieve optimal decisions. Most actual
decision problems however involve
multiple and often conflicting objectives.
One particularly important example
today is the concept of sustainable
development: our decisions should as
much as possible be made considering
their economic, social and
environmental impacts. This calls for
multicriteria models where several
objectives can be considered
simultaneously and balanced with each
other. MCDA methods provide decision
makers with appropriate tools to analyze
decision problems involving multiple
criteria and to make more ―sustainable‖
decisions. Taking into account multiple
objectives and multiple points of view of
different stakeholders is also essential
to ensure ethics in decision processes.
EWG-DSS: You are one of the main
developers of the PROMETHEE
methods. Can you tell us more about
these methods?
BM: The PROMETHEE methods belong
to the family of outranking methods
initiated by Professor Bernard Roy with
the ELECTRE methods. Compared with
the multi-attribute utility theory (MAUT)
approach popular in Anglo-Saxon
countries, outranking methods make
fewer assumptions about the
preferences of the decision makers and
try to remain closer to the multicriteria
nature of decision problems. They also
make it possible to avoid excessive
compensation between conflicting
criteria, thus leading to better-balanced
decisions.
PROMETHEE was invented by
Professor Jean-Pierre Brans and first
presented publicly in 1982. I was lucky
enough to be a student of Jean-Pierre at
that time and to be involved in the
development of PROMETHEE.
Back in 1982, PROMETHEE was very
similar to contemporary ELECTRE
methods: it was possible to rank
alternative decisions, either completely
or partially (thus allowing for
incomparability).
Today (2017), more than 1500
PROMETHEE-related papers have
been published worldwide and the
seminal paper ―How to select and how
to rank projects – The PROMETHEE
method‖ published in EJOR in 1986 is
among the top cited OR papers
according to recent bibliometric studies.
Several reasons can explain this
success.
From the beginning, PROMETHEE was
meant to be simple to understand and to
use. Simple doesn‘t mean simplistic.
PROMETHEE provides decision makers
with sound results and yet its basic
principles can be understood and
accepted widely. Besides, these
principles make it possible to develop
additional types of analyses such as for
instance descriptive analyses (GAIA),
weight sensitivity analyses (Walking
Weights and Stability Intervals), group
decision analyses (GDSS-
PROMETHEE) and multiple selection
(PROMETHEE V). At the turn of the 21
th
Century, PROMETHEE had evolved to
a complete decision aid (support)
system including multiple tools
appropriate to different decision problem
situations.
Another important development factor of
PROMETHEE is the availability of
interactive and user-friendly software.
I have developed the PROMCALC
software at the end of the 1980‘s. It was
running under MS-DOS, with limited
graphical features, but it was at that
time one of the first truly interactive and
usable MCDA software.
PROMCALC was followed by Decision
Lab in 2000, with a MS-Windows
interface and new features (a.o. GDSS).
Decision Lab was a joint project with a
Canadian company located in Montréal.
Today, Visual PROMETHEE is the
newest PROMETHEE software and I
am responsible for its development and
diffusion.
EWG-DSS: What are you working on
currently and how do you envision your
future research?
BM: Several projects are underway
and most are related to PROMETHEE.
First there is the http://www.promethee-
gaia.net web site that I have set up and
that I manage. The site is a central
place for all information related to the
PROMETHEE methods. There are
pointers to PROMETHEE-related
activities such as the PROMETHEE
Days workshops, documents and
information channels such as the
PROMETHEE Methods LinkedIn group.
It is also a repository for the
PROMETHEE Bibliographic Database
that is continuously updated and that
currently includes more than 1500
PROMETHEE-related papers.
The development of the Visual
PROMETHEE software is also a priority
for me and the Academic Edition of
Visual PROMETHEE is available for
free to all non-profit academic users as
a download from the
http://www.promethee-gaia.net web site.
The availability of software is indeed
essential for generalizing the application
of MCDA methods like PROMETHEE.
Yet more work has still to be done to
facilitate the use of the methods: in
particular, the elicitation of preference
parameters (weights of the criteria,
preference thresholds, …) should be
made easier for the decision makers. I
am developing ―assistants‖ within Visual
PROMETHEE to this purpose. I am also
always ready to answer demands
related to the use of Visual
PROMETHEE: courses can be
organized and collaborations are
welcome. I have been interacting with
decision makers and researchers in
many countries and across many fields
to help them to setup multicriteria
models and to use MCDA. Being able to
work within such multidisciplinary teams
is in my opinion one of the nicest part in
my research.
On a more methodological point of view,
even after thirty years of development,
the PROMETHEE methods still lack
some features and I am working on
extensions related to, among others,
handling uncertainty or imprecision of
the data, introducing the time dimension
into the decision process, and adapting
the evaluation methodology to specific
purposes such as resources allocation.
A lot of work ahead!
EWG-DSS: Bertrand, we sincerely
thank you very much for this
informative & enjoyable interview! It
was a pleasure to learn about your
research pathway. We wish you
Good Luck with all your new
endeavours and we hope to continue
collaborating with you and with the
PROMETHEE users!

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Note: The ICDSST 2018 will be
organized as a joint-conference with the
PROMETHEE DAYS 2018 in Heraklion
Crete, Greece, during the period of 22-
25 May!
EWG-DSS Award
The annual EWG-DSS-Award is a
motivating initiative for PhD students
and young researchers to have their
papers selected as best papers or most
innovative presented work, among the
research work submitted to the EWG-
DSS organized scientific events of the
same year.
Each year, the winner is rewarded with
a modest prize in money, sponsored by
the EWG-DSS, and the EWG-DSS-
Award certificate.
How to sponsor the Award?
The EWG-DSS hopes to count with
sponsorship from
research funds and from
the industrial sector to
make the future ―EWG-
DSS-Awards‖ more
financially appealing to
the candidates. You are
encouraged to support
this initiative by
financially sponsoring it
if possible, as well as to
participate and/or to
disseminate this information among
your students, colleagues, research
partners and collaborators.
Winner of the 2016-Award:
18 candidates for the EWG-DSS 2016
Award were selected among
presentations of the 2nd EWG-DSS
International Conference on Decision
Support Systems Technology ICDSST
2016 in Plymouth, UK, in May 2016, and
of the EWG-DSS Stream on Decision
Support Systems at EURO 2016 in
Poland, in July 2016.
The 2016 EWG-DSS Young Researcher
Award was awarded to Fahham Hasan
Qaiser from Loughborough University,
UK, for his paper presented at the
ICDSST 2016 in Plymouth, entitled:
―Decision Support Systems for
Sustainable Logistics: A Review and
Bibliometric Analysis‖.
We congratulate Fahham Hasan Qaiser
for his work and for winning the 2016-
Award. The EWG-DSS 2016 Award
prize is of € 300 and will be officially
delivered to the winner in 2017, during
the ICDSST 2017 in Namur, Belgium.
EWG-DSS 2017-Award
The EWG-DSS 2017 Award will be
given to the best paper or most
innovative presented work, among the
research work submitted to the 2017
EWG-DSS organized scientific events,
namely: the ICDSS 2017 in Namur,
Belgium and the DSS Stream on the
IFORS 2017 in Quebec City, Canada.
You will be informed about the winner
before the end of 2017.
Next EWG-DSS Award in 2018
The “EWG-DSS Award 2018″ can still
be yours!
Participate in the ICDSST 2018, a joint
conference with the PROMETHEE
DAYS 2018!
How to apply?
To apply for the annual EWG-DSS
Award, you only need to participate in
one of our Conferences, or Session
Streams organized by the group and
allow your work to be part of our
selection! More details can be found via
the link below:
http://ewgdss.wordpress.com/awards/
CoPForestDSS News
The April 2017 newsletter of the
Community of Practice (CoP) on
Forest Management Decision
Support Systems, has been already
published.
Please check their website at:
http://www.forestdss.org/CoP/
FITradeoff
Flexible and Interactive Tradeoff
decision support system - FITradeoff:
a new software for multiple criteria
decision problems with partial
information
Preference modeling of decision makers
in the context of Multiattribute Value
Theory (MAVT) is not an easy task due
to the meaning of the scale constants of
the criteria, which is not related only to
their relative importance, but involves
other issues as well (Keeney & Raiffa,
1976).
Several MCDM methods were
developed to aid preference modeling of
decision makers and elicit values of the
scale constants, such as the tradeoff
procedure and the swing procedure.
Although the tradeoff procedure has a
strong axiomatic foundation, behavioral
studies report 67% of inconsistencies
when it is applied. Additionally, 50% of
inconsistencies when the swing
procedure is applied (Weber &
Borcherding, 1993). These procedures
require complete information about the
DM‘s preferences, but the decision
maker is not always able to specify his
preferences in the detailed way required
(Weber, 1987), and giving this
information can be tedious and time
consuming (Salo & Hamalainen, 1992).
Partial information methods were mainly
motivated by these issues, and they can
handle situations where the decision
maker does not have a precisely
defined preference structure (Weber,
1987). The Flexible and Interactive
Tradeoff (FITradeoff) was developed by
de Almeida et al. (2016) for elicitation of
scale constants in additive models with
partial information about the decision
maker‘s preferences. This new method
is based on the traditional tradeoff
procedure, but it brings two main
benefits compared to the traditional
tradeoff (de Almeida et al., 2016): first, it
reduces the information required by the
DM; and second, the information
required is cognitively easier to provide.
FITradeoff keeps the axiomatic structure
of the tradeoff procedure, and improves
its applicability for the decision maker, in
such way that less inconsistency is
expected.
FITradeoff is operated by means of a
decision support system. FITradeoff
DSS received the best Brazilian
technological product award in the II
Research and Post-Graduation in
Production Engineering Meeting (II
EPPGEP, 2017), organized by the
Brazilian National Association of
Research and Post-Graduation in
Production Engineering (ANPEPRO).
Please check the website at:
http://fitradeoff.org/
Publications
In this section you find the list of recent
EWG-DSS editions (a comprehensive
list of EWG-DSS publications is found
in: https://ewgdss.wordpress.com/ewg-
dss-academic-production/), as well as
individual publications of members of
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this Newsletter. We encourage all EWG-
DSS members to send to us their lists of
most recent publications for the next
Newsletter!
EWG-DSS Recent Editions:
Edited Special issues and books
 Real-World Decision Support
Systems Case Studies. Edited by
Jason Papathanasiou, Nikolaos
Ploskas and Isabelle Linden.
This book presents real-world decision
support systems, i.e., systems that have
been running for some time and as such
have been tested in real environments
and complex situations; the cases are
from various application domains and
highlight the best practices in each
stage of the system‘s life cycle, from the
initial requirements analysis and design
phases to the final stages of the project.
Each chapter provides decision-makers
with recommendations and insights into
lessons learned so that failures can be
avoided and successes repeated. For
this reason unsuccessful cases, which
at some point of their life cycle were
deemed as failures for one reason or
another, are also included. All decision
support systems are presented in a
constructive, coherent and deductive
manner to enhance the learning effect.
It complements the many works that
focus on theoretical aspects or
individual module design and
development by offering ‗good‘ and
‗bad‘ practices when developing and
using decision support systems.
Combining high-quality research with
real-world implementations, it is of
interest to researchers and
professionals in industry alike.
http://www.springer.com/gp/book/97
83319439150
 Decision Support Systems VI –
Addressing. Sustainability and
Societal Challenges. 2nd
International Conference, ICDSST
2016, Plymouth, UK, May 23–25,
2016, Proceedings. Edited by
Shaofeng Liu, Boris Delibašić and
Festus Oderanti.
This book constitutes the refereed
proceedings of the Second International
Conference on Decision Support
Systems Technology, ICDSST 2016,
held in Plymouth, UK, May 23-25. The
theme of the event was ―Decision
Support Systems Addressing
Sustainability & Societal Challenges‖,
organized by the EURO (Association of
European Operational Research
Societies) working group of Decision
Support Systems (EWG-DSS).
The 15 full papers presented in this
book were selected out of 51
submissions after being carefully
reviewed by internationally experts from
the ICDSST 2016 Program Committee
and externally invited reviewers. The
selected papers are representative of
current and relevant research activities
in various areas of decision support
systems, such as sustainability and
societal challenges; risk management
and project portfolio management;
business intelligence and knowledge
management; and technologies to
improve system usability.
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 Special issue on ―Decision Support
Systems for Sustainable
Applications‖. International Journal
of Decision Support System
Technologies. Jason
Papathanasiou, Festus Oderanti,
Uchitha Jayawickrama (guest
editors).
This special issue comprises of papers
presented in the EWG-DSS 2016
International Conference on Decision
Support System Technology (ICDSST
2016) organized by the EURO Working
Group on Decision Support Systems
(EWG-DSS) in Plymouth, UK, during the
period of May 23rd to May 25th, 2016.
The conference theme was ―Decision
Sustainability & Societal Challenges‖
and was hosted at the Plymouth
Graduate School of Management &
Plymouth Business School, Faculty of
Business.
The topic of this special is ―Decision
Support Systems for Sustainable
Applications‖ and prospective authors
were invited to submit their work. After a
rigorous peer review procedure four
papers were selected for publication
and are presented here.
 Special Issue on ―Sustainable
knowledge-based decision support
systems (KB-DSS) for business
performance improvement in real
industrial environment‖, Industrial
Management and Data Systems
(IM&DS). Edited by Shaofeng Liu,
Boris Delibasic, Lynne Butel, Xue
Han (guest editors).
This special issue (SI) focuses on one
of the very crucial but under-developed
areas in sustainable knowledge-based
decision support systems (KB-DSS) for
business performance improvement,
namely how KB-DSS can help address
sustainability and societal challenges in
real business environment.
Specifically, it addresses the following
questions:
i. What are the key knowledge
management support
requirements and intelligent
inference/reasoning/ learning
capabilities of DSS in the current
web-based, big data-driven, social
network-supported, decision
making context?
ii. How can KB-DSS support and
improve business performance,
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and achieving economic, social
and environmental (green)
objectives?
iii. What empirical evidence is there
of how KB-DSS has been applied
to real decision making in different
industrial environments?
Call for Papers
Springer Operational Research:
An International Journal
Special Issue on
Data Visualisation for Decision-Making:
An Important Issue
Lead
1
& Guest Editors
Corentin Burnay
1
(corentin.burnay@unamur.be)
University of Namur, Namur, Belgium
corentin.burnay@unamur.be
Fátima C. C. Dargam
(F.Dargam@SimTechnology.com)
ILTC, Brazil &SimTech Simulation
Technology, Graz, Austria
f.dargam@simtechnology.com
Pascale Zaraté
(Pascale.Zarate@univ-tlse1.fr)
University of Toulouse, IRIT - INPT,
Tolouse, France
pascale.zarate@univ-tlse1.fr
Methods and Strategies in Business
Information, in Big Data, as well as in
Domain Data and Knowledge collection
all share an important issue to deal with,
that is the one of bringing up an
adequate and comprehensible
visualization approach to present
relevant information to users and
decision-makers in an effective way.
This special issue collects some recent
approaches of DSS and of Information
Systems that present domain-specific
and visualization-based user
communication strategies and interfaces
to support decision-making. After the
ICDSST 2017, qualified extended
papers presented during the
International Conference on DSS
Technology 2017 in Namur, Belgium
(ICDSST 2017), will be invited by the
Guest Editors to be reviewed for this
special issue. Authors of invited papers
should submit their extended work to
the Lead Guest Editor. After the
submission, a peer review process will
then be engaged and a selection of the
best papers will be published.
All manuscripts should be written
according to the Springer OR Journal‘s
Guidelines for Authors:
http://www.springer.com/business+%26
+management/operations+research/jour
nal/12351?detailsPage=editorialBoard
Important Deadlines:
Deadline for full paper
submission:
September
30
th
, 2017
Notice of
acceptance/rejection:
December
15
th
, 2017
Revised paper
submission:
February 15
th
,
2018
Final decision: March 15
th
,
2018
EURO Journal on Decision
Processes
Supporting and Explaining Decision
Processes by means of Argumentation
Guest Editors:
i. A. Hunter, University College
London [anthony.hunter@ucl.ac.uk]
ii. N. Maudet, LIP6, Universite Pierre et
Marie Curie, Paris
[nicolas.maudet@lip6.fr]
iii. F. Toni, Imperial College London
[f.toni@imperial.ac.uk]
iv. W. Ouerdane, LGI, CentraleSupelec,
Univ. Paris Saclay
[wassila.ouerdane@centralesupelec.fr]
Motivation
While systems based on complex
decision-making techniques are
developed and widely used in various
industrial settings, there is a pressing
demand for methods that humans can
understand. Transparency alone is
rarely sufficient: in order to let users
inspect their rationale,
recommendations must often be at least
accompanied with explanations, or even
integrated in a dialectical process
allowing the discussion and revision of
the recommendation, of the options at
stake, sometimes even of the model
used. Artificial Intelligence (AI), in
connection with argumentation theory,
has developed various techniques to
handle these issues, where the purpose
can be to generate qualitative
explanations of decisions based on
existing quantitative models, but also to
use computational models of argument
to generate the options to be considered
in the decision process, to reason on
the basis of pieces of evidence either
supporting or contradicting a decision,
or to design interactive decision-aiding
process with argumentative features, to
cite but a few.
Contents
The Guest Editors invite papers on
―Supporting and Explaining Decision
Processes by means of Argumentation"
which will be published as a feature
cluster in the EURO Journal on Decision
Processes. Our ambition in this special
issue is to strengthen the connection
and mutual awareness between the OR
and AI communities working on these
issues. We invite contributions making
explicit connections or comparisons
between decision-theoretic models and
argumentative approaches. This
includes in particular, but not
exhaustively:
 argumentation-based decision-
making
 explanation for multi-criteria
decision-making
 argument schemes for decision-
making
 dialectical processes for supporting
decision-aiding processes
 real-world applications involving
argumentative features in the
decision process
Schedule
Prospective authors are invited to
submit:
(1) Expression of interest, up to one
page describing the envisioned
submission, to besent by email to
the guest editors,
(2) Full paper to the Editorial Manager
system as Original Research with a
reference to this Call for Papers
(https://www.editorialmanager.com/e
jdp) [new deadline: 15/06/17]
The Special Issue is planned to be
published in December 2017.
EURO Journal on Decision
Processes
Data Analytics and Collaborative
Decision Processes
Guest Editors:
i. Pascale Zaraté, Toulouse
University, pascale.zarate@ut-
capitole.fr
ii. Fátima Dargam, SimTech
Simulation Technology/ILTC,
f.dargam@simtechnology.com
iii. Rita Ribeiro, UNINOVA,
rar@uninova.pt

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iv. Shaofeng Liu, Plymouth
University,
shaofeng.liu@plymouth.ac.uk
Motivation
While Big Data analytics is a common
challenge to overcome nowadays
across most application areas, several
trends and technologies are making it
possible for decision makers to reach
decisions faster by improving their
collaborative decision processes. These
processes involve much more
information than before, and they are
also increasingly decentralized and
distributed. Experiences from best
practices in contemporary business
decisions suggest that collaborative
platforms need to be equipped with
strong analytical capabilities based on
methodological advances from the Big
Data Value Chain, in order to make the
best use of available data. In this
setting, the current Featured Issue of
the EURO Journal of Decision
Processes (EJDP) will explore how
―Data Analytics and Collaborative
Decision Processes‖ have recently been
implemented.
Contents
The Guest Editors seek state of the art
reviews and research papers that
demonstrate that how decision making
professionals have sought to implement
and use Collaborative Decision
Processes and Data Analytics to
address timely challenges. Topics of
particular interest include but are not
limited to: Big Data Analytics; Decision
Dashboards; DM & Social Networks
Data Analytics; Collaborative Decision
Processes; Group Preferences Co-
Decisions; among others.
Established by the Association of
European Operational Research
Societies (EURO), EJDP publishes
research that advances the
understanding and appropriate use of
operational research in supporting
decision making processes (see
http://www.springer.com/40070).
Schedule
Prospective authors are invited to
submit: (1) an (optional) expression of
interest, up to one page describing the
envisioned submission, to be sent by
email to the guest editors, (2) a full
paper to the Editorial Manager system
as Original Research with a reference to
this Call for Papers
(https://www.editorialmanager.com/
ejdp). The planned schedule is as
follows:
November 2017: Full Papers
submission deadline
April 2018: Notification (1st round) /
May 2018: revision due (1st round),
July 2018: Notification (2st round) /
September 2018: revision due (2st
round)
November 2018: Publication of Feature
issue
Mathematical Problems in
Engineering
Building Mathematical Models for
Multicriteria and Multiobjective
Applications
Lead Guest Editor
Adiel T. de Almeida, Universidade
Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil;
almeida@cdsid.org.br
Guest Editors
i. Love Ekenberg, Department of
Computer and Systems Sciences
(DSV), Stockholm University,
Sweden, lovek@dsv.su.se; and
International Institute for Applied
Systems Analysis (IIASA),
Laxenburg, Austria.
ii. Juan Carlos Leyva, Department of
Economic and Management
Sciences, University of Occident,
Culiacán, Mexico;
juan.leyva@udo.mx
iii. Danielle Morais, Department of
Management Engineering,
Universidade Federal de
Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil;
daniellemorais@yahoo.com.br
In our daily lives or professional
settings, there are many decision
problems that involve multiple criteria,
which may be conflicting and
incommensurable. The complexity of
real-world decision and the plethora of
factors and criteria that are often
involved necessitate the implementation
of a sound theoretical framework to
structure and model the decision-
making process. Methods of Multiple
Criteria Decision Making/Aid (MCDM/A)
can be applied to support decision
makers (DMs) in such task. MCDM/A
provides such a framework, as well as a
wide variety of methodological tools that
are oriented towards the support of the
DMs in facing real-world decision
problems. Applications in a variety of
areas may be done by building decision
models representing both the
preferences of decision makers and the
various characteristics of the problems
at hand, which may include the
aggregation of DMs in group decision
making (GDM). These built decision
models are the basis for applications in
a diversity of areas supporting DMs for
handling those problems.
The aim of this special issue is to
promote and disseminate research and
applications among academics and
other professionals interested in theory,
methodologies, and applications of
MCDM/A.
This special issue is aligned with the
mission of the MPE and seeks bringing
high-quality papers with significant
impact on the practice of business,
management, and policy making
utilizing MCDM/A.
Authors are welcome to submit papers
that consider mathematical models for
and applications of multicriteria and
multiobjective methods. Final
applications could be related to, or
consider, but are not limited to, the
following topics: energy, environment,
climate, sustainability, risk
management, reliability, maintenance,
project management, production
management, supply chain
management, logistic, location,
transportation, and healthcare.
Potential topics include, but are not
limited to:
 Preference modeling and risk and
uncertainty modeling
 Behavioral issues for building
MCDM/A and GDM models
 GDM and negotiations models
 Building of multicriteria group
decision models
 Building mathematical models with
multiattribute utility or value theory
(MAUT/MAVT)
 Building mathematical models for
MCDM/A with partial information
 Building mathematical models based
on multiobjective optimization and
multiobjective combinatorial
optimization
 Use of evolutionary algorithms in
MCDM/A
 New areas of MCDM/A in applied
outranking methods
 Building mathematical models with
fuzzy MCDM/A
 Advanced applications of AHP
(Analytical Hierarchical Process) and
ANP (Analytical Network Process)
Schedule
Manuscript Due: May 26, 2017
First Round of Reviews: Aug. 18, 2017
Publication Date: October 13, 2017
Members’ Recent Publications
1. C. Lisboa, J. Vieira, S. Mouta,
S.Machado, N. Ribeiro, E. Silva, R.
A. Ribeiro, A. F. Pereira (2016) An

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MCDM Approach to the Selection of
Novel Technologies for Innovative
In-Vehicle Information Systems.
International Journal of Decision
Support System Technology, Vol 8,
Issue 1, January – March, 2016.
DOI: 10.4018/IJDSST.2016010103
2. E. Shahamatnia, I. Dorotovic, J. M.
Fonseca, R. A. Ribeiro (2016) An
evolutionary computation based
algorithm for calculating solar
differential rotation by automatic
tracking of coronal bright points.
Journal of Space Weather and
Space Climate, Vol 6, A16. DOI:
10.1051/swsc/2016010
3. J. Falcão , R. A. Ribeiro, J.Jassbi,
S.Lavender, E. Boissier, Fabrice
Brito (2016) Evaluation Support
System for Open Challenges on
Earth Observation Topics. Chapter
in: Real-World Decision Support
Systems. Editors: Jason
Papathanasiou, Nikolaos
Ploskas,Isabelle Linden. Integrated
Series in Information Systems.
Volume 37, Springer. pp 151-174.
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-43916-7_7
4. G. G. Vieira , M.L.R. Varela, R. A.
Ribeiro (2016) A Knowledge Based
System for Supporting Sustainable
Industrial Management in a Clothes
Manufacturing Company based on a
Data Fusion Model. In: Decision
Support Systems VI – Addressing
Sustainability and Societal
Challenges, ICDSST2016
Proceedings, Editors: S. Liu, B.
Delibasoc, F. Oderanti, LNBIP 250,
Springer, pp 113-126, DOI:
10.1007/978-3-319-32877-5_9
5. Oluwafemi Oyemomi, Shaofeng Liu,
Irina Neaga and Ali Alkhuraiji, 2016.
How knowledge sharing and
business process contribute to
organizational performance: using
the fsQCA approach. Journal of
Business Research 69(11): pp.
5222-5227.
6. Uchitha Jayawickrama, Shaofeng
Liu, and Melanie Hudson Smith,
2016. Empirical evidence of an
integrative knowledge competence
framework for ERP systems
implementation in UK industries.
Computers in Industry 82: 205-223.
7. A Alkhuraiji, S Liu, F Oderanti and P
Megicks, 2016. New structured
knowledge network for strategic
decision making in IT innovative and
implementable projects. Journal of
Business Research 69(5): 1534-
1538.
8. P Zarate and S Liu, 2016. A new
trend for knowledge-based decision
support systems design.
International Journal of Information
and Decision Sciences 8(3): 305-
324.
9. MandićKsenija, Delibašić Boris,
KneževićSnežana&BenkovićSladjan
a (2017) Analysis of the efficiency of
insurance companies in Serbia using
the methods fuzzy AHP and
TOPSIS, Economic Research-
EkonomskaIstraživanja,
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1331677X.
2017.1305786
10. Delibasic B, Markovic P, Delias P,
Obradovic Z (2016) Mining skier
transportation patterns from ski
resort lift usage data, IEEE
Transactions on Human-Machine
Systems. DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/THMS.201
6.2633438
Book Announcements
 Intelligent Decision Support
Systems for Sustainable
Computing. Paradigms and
Applications. Editors: Sangaiah,
A.K., Abraham, A., Siarry, P.,
Sheng, M. Springer, 2017.
This unique book dicusses the latest
research, innovative ideas, challenges
and computational intelligence (CI)
solutions in sustainable computing. It
presents novel, in-depth fundamental
research on achieving a sustainable
lifestyle for society, either from a
methodological or from an application
perspective.
Sustainable computing has expanded to
become a significant research area
covering the fields of computer science
and engineering, electrical engineering
and other engineering disciplines, and
there has been an increase in the
amount of literature on aspects
sustainable computing such as energy
efficiency and natural resources
conservation that emphasizes the role
of ICT (information and communications
technology) in achieving system design
and operation objectives. The energy
impact/design of more efficient IT
infrastructures is a key challenge in
realizing new computing paradigms.
The book explores the uses of
computational intelligence (CI)
techniques for intelligent decision
support that can be exploited to create
effectual computing systems, and
addresses sustainability problems in
computing and information processing
environments and technologies at the
different levels of CI paradigms.
An excellent guide to surveying the
state of the art in computational
intelligence applied to challenging real-
world problems in sustainable
computing, it is intended for scientists,
practitioners, researchers and
academicians dealing with the new
challenges and advances in area.
http://www.springer.com/us/book/978331953
1526#otherversion=9783319531533
 Trends in Control and Decision-
Making for Human–Robot
Collaboration Systems. Editors:
Wang, Yue, Zhang, Fumin. Springer,
2017.
This book provides an overview of
recent research developments in the
automation and control of robotic
systems that collaborate with humans. A
measure of human collaboration being
necessary for the optimal operation of
any robotic system, the contributors
exploit a broad selection of such
systems to demonstrate the importance
of the subject, particularly where the
environment is prone to uncertainty or
complexity. They show how such
human strengths as high-level decision-
making, flexibility, and dexterity can be
combined with robotic precision, and
ability to perform task repetitively or in a
dangerous environment.
The book focuses on quantitative
methods and control design for
guaranteed robot performance and
balanced human experience from both
physical human-robot interaction and
social human-robot interaction. Its
contributions develop and expand upon
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Applications such as assistive
technology, driverless vehicles,
cooperative mobile robots,
manufacturing robots and swarm robots
are considered. Illustrative figures and
tables are provided throughout the
book.
Researchers and students working in
controls, and the interaction of humans
and robots will learn new methods for
human–robot collaboration from this
book and will find the cutting edge of the
subject described in depth.
http://www.springer.com/us/book/97833
19405322
 Decision Management: Concepts,
Methodologies, Tools, and
Applications (4 Volumes),
Information Resources Management
Association (USA), January, 2017,
IGI Global.
The implementation of effective decision
making protocols is crucial in any
organizational environment in modern
society. Emerging advancements in
technology and analytics have
optimized uses and applications of
decision making systems.
Decision Management: Concepts,
Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
is a compendium of the latest academic
material on the control, support, usage,
and strategies for implementing efficient
decision making systems across a
variety of industries and fields.
Featuring comprehensive coverage on
numerous perspectives, such as data
visualization, pattern analysis, and
predictive analytics, this multi-volume
book is an essential reference source
for researchers, academics,
professionals, managers, students, and
practitioners interested in the
maintenance and optimization of
decision management processes.
http://www.igi-global.com/book/decision-
management-concepts-methodologies-
tools/166370#table-of-contents
 Web Data Mining and the
Development of Knowledge-
Based Decision Support Systems.
Editor: G. Sreedhar. December,
2016, IGI Global.
Websites are a central part of today‘s
business world; however, with the vast
amount of information that constantly
changes and the frequency of required
updates, this can come at a high cost to
modern businesses.
Web Data Mining and the Development
of Knowledge-Based Decision Support
Systems is a key reference source on
decision support systems in view of end
user accessibility and identifies methods
for extraction and analysis of useful
information from web documents.
Featuring extensive coverage across a
range of relevant perspectives and
topics, such as semantic web, machine
learning, and expert systems, this book
is ideally designed for web developers,
internet users, online application
developers, researchers, and faculty.
http://www.igi-global.com/book/web-
data-mining-development-
knowledge/166924
 Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis to
Support Healthcare Decisions.
Editors: Marsh, K., Goetghebeur, M.,
Thokala, P., Baltussen, R. Springer,
2017.
Representing the first collection on the
topic, this book builds from foundations
to case studies, to future prospects,
providing the reader with a rich and
comprehensive understanding of the
use of multi-criteria decision analysis
(MCDA) in healthcare. The first section
of the collection presents the
foundations of MCDA as it is applied to
healthcare decisions, providing
guidance on the ethical and theoretical
underpinnings of MCDA and how to
select MCDA methods appropriate to
different decision settings.
Section two comprises a collection of
case studies spanning the decision
continuum, including portfolio
development, benefit–risk assessment,
health technology assessment, priority
setting, resource optimisation, clinical
practice and shared decision making.
Section three explores future directions
in the application of MCDA to healthcare
and identifies opportunities for further
research to support these.
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Thanks to all group members who
contributed to this section.
EWG-DSS Events
General aims of the EWG-DSS:
• Encourage the exchange of
information among practitioners, end-
users, and researchers in the area of
Decision Systems.
• Enforce the networking among the
DSS communities available and
facilitate activities that are essential for
the start-up of international cooperation
research and projects.
• Facilitate professional academic and
industrial opportunities for its members.
• Favour the development of innovative
models, methods and tools in the field
Decision Support and related areas.
• Actively promote the interest on
Decision Systems in the scientific
community by organizing dedicated
conferences, workshops, seminars and
conference streams in major
conferences, as well as editing special
and contributed issues in relevant
scientific journals.
Following its objectives, the EWG-DSS
has been organising since 2011 at least
one conference/ workshop per year.
With thosescientific events, our group
has made a step forwards within its
main purpose of establishing a platform
for encouraging state-of-the-art high
quality research and collaboration work
within the DSS community in Europe
and Worldwide.
Below you find a chronological list of all
places where EWG-DSS organized
events up to the current year.
EWG-DSS Meetings

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List of all EWG-DSS Meetings,
Workshops & Conferences:
. Fontainebleau (France) – 1990;
. Bruges (Belgium) – 1991;
.Nagycenk (Hungary) – 1992;
.Sintra (Portugal) – 1993;
. Turku (Finland) – 1994;
. Samos (Greece) – 1995;
. Ispra (Italy) – 1996;
. Granada (Spain) – 1998;
. Turku (Finland) – 1999;
. Toulouse (France) – 2000;
.Caiscas (Portugal) – 2001;
. Luxembourg – 2003;
. Istanbul, (Turkey) – 2003;
. Prato, (Italy) – 2004;
. Graz (Austria) – 2005;
. London (UK) – 2006;
.Reykavik (Iceland) – 2006;
.Montreal (Canada) – 2007;
. Prague (CzechRepublic) – 2007;
. Bonn (Germany) – 2009;
.Lisbon (Portugal) – 2010;
. London (UK) – 2011;
. Paris (France) – 2011.
. Liverpool (UK) – 2012;
. Vilnius (Lithuania) – 2012;
. Thessaloniki (Greece) – 2013;
. Rome (Italy) – 2013;
. Barcelona (Spain) – 2014;
. Belgrade (Serbia) – 2015;
. Warsaw (Poland) – 2015;
. Glasgow (UK) – 2015;
. Plymouth (UK) – 2016;
. Poznan (Poland) – 2016.
. Namur (Belgium) – 2017;
. Quebec (Canada) – 2017.
Events in 2016
ICDSST 2016: EWG-DSS 2016
International Conference onDecision
Support SystemTechnology. May 23 -
25th, 2016, Plymouth, UK.
Main Theme: Decision Support
Systems Addressing Sustainability &
Societal Challenges
https://icdsst2016.wordpress.com/
The ICDSST 2016 conference last year
in Plymouth was a very Pleasant and
successful event organized by the
EWG-DSS on the theme: ―Decision
Sustainability & Societal Challenges‖,
and locally managed by our Co-
coordinator Prof. Shaofeng Liu and her
Team from the Plymouth Graduate
School of Management& Plymouth
Business School, Faculty of Business,
University of Plymouth, UK.
Here are some highlights of the
ICDSST-2016 in photos. More pictures
can be found on the Conference
Homepage:
https://icdsst2016.wordpress.com/photo
s-from-the-conference/.
Shaofeng Liu, Plymouth, UK, 2016.
ICDSST 2016 - Plymouth, UK.
Opening Session.
Photos from ICDSST 2016 - Plymouth, UK.
We are very thankful to all the local
organization team efforts in making
the ICDSST-2016 Conference in
Plymouth such an enjoyable
experience! THANK YOU ALL!
EURO 2016:
EWG-DSS Stream on the 2016
International Conference on EURO-
2016, the 28th European Conference for
Operational Research and Management
Science (ORMS), organised by the
European Association of Operational
Research Societies in conjunction with
the Polish OR Society.
July 3-5th, 2016, Poznan, Poland.
Theme: Operational Research and
Management Science
The EURO 2016 was the 28th
European Conference for Operational
Research and Management Science
(ORMS), organized by the European
Association of Operational Research
Societies in conjunction with the Polish
OR Society. The EURO 2016 took place
at the Poznan University in Poznan,
Poland from July 3rd to 6th, 2016.
http://www.euro2016.poznan.pl/.
As the organizers of the Stream of
Decision Support Systems, the EWG-
DSS invited researchers, practitioners,
as well as students working in the areas
of decision making, analysis and
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DSS Stream, which was composed of 6
sessions.
Isabelle Linden & Boris Delibasic.
Those sessions defined the main topics
of interest in the stream:
– Applications in Decision Making &
Decision Analysis.
– Business Intelligence and Knowledge-
Based Decision Support.
– Knowledge Management & Decision
Systems.
– DSS supported by Simulation and
Optimization Approaches.
– Collaborative Decision Making (Social
Networks & Web Resources).
– Big Data Analytics & Decision Making.
The EURO2016 was highly interesting
and well organized. The EWG-DSS
Coordination Board was represented in
Poznan by Isabelle Linden and Boris
Delibasic.
Events in 2017
ICDSST 2017, EWG-DSS 2017,
International Conference on
Decision Support System
Technology.
29-31 May 2017, Namur, Belgium.
Main Theme: Data, Information
and Knowledge Visualisation in
Decision Making
The ICDSST 2017 is organized by the
EURO Working Group on Decision
Support Systems (EWG-DSS) in co-
operation with University of Namur,
Belgium, during the period of 29-31 May
2017. The conference will be hosted by
the Department of Business
Administration, Faculty of Economics,
Social Sciences and Business
Administration.
Purpose of the ICDSST 2017
The main purpose of the EWG-DSS
2017 International Conference on
Decision Support System Technology
(ICDSST 2017), with its main theme on
―Data, Information and Knowledge
Visualisation in Decision Making‖, is to
attract researchers, developers and
specialists in the related areas of
decision making, including its
methodologies and technologies, as
well as application oriented practitioners
directed to the implementation of
solutions for societal challenges, to get
together in order to exchange
experiences and identify the key issues
within the areas in focus, so that
exploitation of new approaches and
tools for future developments can take
place.
Depending on the research domain,
frontiers between data, information and
knowledge are not always very formaly
specified. Whatever the choosen
definition, one will agree on the fact that
the three of them are concerned with
decision, decision making and decision
support
ICDSST 2017 Main Theme
This ICDSST 2017 will study the role,
the qualities, the models and methods
offered by visualisation of data,
information and knowledge in the
process of decision and the
mechanisms of decision support. From
data analysis, to knowledge sharing,
going through information extraction,
visualisation can offer key support to all
the phases of a decision making
process. In particular, in group
decision, where communication is a
critical aspect, an efficient visual support
facilitates the process.
ICDSST 2017 Specific topics of interest
include (but not limited to):
 Qualities of Data Visualisation
 Data visualisation and Decision
Making/Support
 Relational Data Visualisation and
Decision Making/Support
 Innovative Data Visualisation,
Manipulation and Interaction
 Social and Network Data
Visualisation
 Textual Data Visualisation
 Qualitative Data Visualisation
 Process Visualisation
 Spatio-temporal Data Visualisation
and Management
 Environmental Data Visualisation
 Visual Information Extraction
 Visual Information Navigation
 Geographic Information Systems
and Decision Making/Support
 Health Information Visualisation
 Visualisation Supporting Knowledge
Extraction
 Big Data Analytics
 Business Intelligence
 Managerial Dashboard
 Knowledge Acquisition and
Management
 Knowledge Extraction and
Visualisation
 Knowledge Communication through
Visualisation
 Visualisation and Collaborative
Decision Making
 Decision Making in Modern
Education
All members of the EURO Working
Groups related to Decision Making,
Data, Information and Knowledge
analysis, as well as all associates of
collaborative International DSS
Communities are invited to participate.
We also encourage the participation of
other related professionals, so that
further collaboration can be promoted
on a larger scale in the future.
The ICDSST 2017 promises to offer a
pleasant conference environment for
all participants, within the beautiful
city of Namur in May.
Invited speakers/ Special talks in
ICDSST-2017:
Dr. Erica Yang
Technology
Division, Scientific
Computing
Department, STFC
Rutherford
Appleton
Laboratory,
Oxfordshire, UK
Talk: Visualisation that underpins a
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technologies for big data analytics:
methods and applications
Prof. Jean-Pierre
Brans
Université Libre de
Bruxelles
Talk: Ethics and
Decision
Prof. Pierre
Kunsch
VrijeUniversiteit
Brussel, Belgium
Talk: Ethics and
Decision
Dr. Abel Coll
CIMNE, Barcelona,
Spain
Talk:Using Big
Data for extreme
large scale
simulations analysis and
visualization
IFORS 2017
EWG-DSS DSS Stream on the
IFORS 2017 in Quebec City in
Canada
July 17-21
st
, 2017
Main Theme: OR/Analytics for a
better world.
www.ifors2017.ca
The EWG-DSS Stream on DSS -
Decision Support Systems on the
IFORS 2017 - The 21
st
Conference of
the International Federation of
Operational Research Societies –
IFORS 2017, organized in Quebec City,
Canada during the period of July 17
th
-
21
st
, 2017, More will be reported to the
EWG-DSS members about the EWG-
DSS Stream in due course.
The EWG-DSS Coordination Board will
be represented in Quebec by Shaofeng
Liu and the group members: Adiel
Almeida and Femi Oyemomi.
Best Paper Prizes
EWG-DSS Best Papers Prizes
Continuing the initiative created in 2013
for the EWG-DSS Thessaloniki
Workshop and repeated in the EURO
Mini-Conference in Graz, and the EWG-
DSS events in Toulouse, Belgrade and
Plymouth, the EWG-DSS will also
distribute prizes for best papers during
the ICDSST 2017 in Namur in May
2017.
The following licenses of DSS-area-
related software packages will be sorted
among the participants as prizes for
best presented papers during the
ICDSST-2017Conference:
 A License of Analytica Enterprise,
sponsored by Lumina -
http://www.lumina.com/;
 A full license of Paramount
Decisions software
(https://paramountdecisions.com/)
 A full license of 1000 Minds
software
(https://www.1000minds.com/)
 A license of ExtendSim, sponsored
by Imagine That Inc., US.
www.ExtendSim.com.
More details about the sponsors at:
https://icdsst2017.wordpress.com/sponsors/
Events in 2018
ICDSST - PROMETHEE DAYS 2018
www.icdsst2018.wordpress.com
4th International Conference on
Decision Support System
Technology - ICDSST 2018 &
PROMETHEE DAYS 2018
22-25 May 2018 - Hellenic Centre for
Marine Research, Heraklion, Crete,
Greece.
Main Theme: Sustainable Data-Driven
& Evidence-based Decision Support
with Applications to the Environment
and Energy Sectors
The ICDSST in 2018 is jointly organised
by the Euro Working Group on Decision
Support Systems EWG-DSS and the
PROMETHEE DAYS Group. The joint-
conference aims to provide a
communication platform for scholars,
researchers, developers, specialists and
other professionals in the related areas
of decision making and decision
support, including DSS methodologies
and technologies as well as application
oriented solutions, to get together in
order to exchange ideas, share
experiences, discuss key issues, and
identify future research and
development directions. Additionally,
users of PROMETHEE are also
welcome to participate and disseminate
their theoretical developments,
comparative analyses or practical
applications of the PROMETHEE
methods.
The ICDSST-PROMETHEE DAYS 2018
will focus on the role, the qualities, the
models and methods offered by
sustainable data-driven and evidence
based Decision Support, mainly applied
to Environment and Energy. On these
sectors, diverse stakeholders at various
governance levels seek to devise and
implement sound and robust policies
which mitigate environmental impacts
while taking into account various
parameters. Decision Support Systems
can simulate different scenarios and
offer solutions in modern managerial
issues which are full of redundant and
complex information. Such rapidly
evolving situations, which engage a
large number of individuals with different
agendas in complicated decision
making processes, require such tools
for support. It is in this context that the
key topics of interest include (but are
not limited to):
• Decision Support Modeling
• Decision Support and Expert Systems
in the Environment and Energy Sectors
• Data Visualisation and Decision
Making/Support
• Environmental and Energy Data
Visualisation
• Geographic Information Systems
• Data Science, Big Data Analytics and
Business Intelligence
• Technical and Managerial Dashboards
for Decision Support
• Knowledge Acquisition, Management,
Extraction and Visualisation
• Collaborative Decision Making
• Intelligent, Web-based, Spatial
Decision Support Systems
• Application Models and Systems:
Agricultural, Environmental, Farming,
Water Resources, Livestock, Fisheries,
Warehouse, Sustainable Forest and
Rangeland Management, Food
Processing and Supply Chain
Management
• Simulation Models and Systems,
Regional Planning, Logistics and
Traceability
• Case Studies involving any of the
above issues.
Contributions
We welcome submissions as:

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 Full Papers (deadline 30 November
2017
 Short Papers (by 1 March 2017)
 Posters (by 25 March 2017).
Templates for Papers & Posters will be
available from the conference website:
www.icdsst2018.wordpress.com
Publications
As in previous EWG-DSS conferences,
accepted papers may be published
through various means, including the
Conference Proceedings, the Springer
book series – Lecture Notes in Business
Information Processing (LNBIP), and
the Special Issues in DSS related
journals. Already confirmed is the
Journal Special Issue in the
International Journal of Decision
Support System Technology (IJDSST)
for selected and extended papers
presented in the conference
Other Events
23
rd
Americas Conference on
Information Systems. AMCIS 2017: A
Tradition of Innovation. Boston, MA,
USA, August 10-12, 2017.
AMCIS brings together academics and
industry professionals around the world
to exchange knowledge related to the
AMCIS 2017 theme, A Tradition of
Innovation.
A Tradition of Innovation, reflects the
conference committee‘s desire to
strengthen and build consensus in
existing research streams, while also
taking on innovative theoretical or
methodological challenges and
exploring emerging technology
opportunities. Together, the participants
will create an exciting program that
draws upon the best of SIG-driven
AMCIS traditions and provides many
opportunities for participation,
collaboration, and dialogue. The
participants look forward to gathering in
Boston to strengthen their roots and
expand their opportunities in information
systems, the digital economy and
beyond.
For more details, please visit the
homepage:https://amcis2017.aisnet.org/
2017 EFITA Congress, European
conference dedicated to the future
use of ICT in the agri-food sector,
bioresource and biomass sector,
Montpellier, France, from 2 to 6 July
2017.
EFITA is the European conference
dedicated to the future use of ICT in the
agri-food sector, bioresource and
biomass sector. It was launched and is
supported by the European Federation
for Information Technology in
Agriculture, Food and the Environment
(EFITA) with the collaboration of the
World Congress on Computers in
Agriculture (WCCA). The first EFITA
was held in 1997, and 2017 is the 11th
of the series. Montpellier, France, had
the pleasure to welcome the event
already in 2001 and is most happy to do
it again. 150 participants are expected
form around 30 countries. The
organisers will make their best to
provide a nice atmosphere for
knowledge sharing and thinking the
future of ICT technologies within the
agri-food and bioresource sectors; they
also welcome proposals of related
events such as project meetings and
ICT demonstrations to take place within
the conference schedule and facilities.
Special sessions will be also be
proposed. A technical tour to ICT in
agriculture and territory management
will be organized at the end of the
conference (july 6th).
homepage:http://www.efita2017.org/
31st Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Conference
on Data and Applications Security
and Privacy (DBSec'17). Philadelphia,
PA, USA, on July 19th - July 21st,
2017.
DBSec is an annual international
conference covering research in data
and applications security and privacy.
The 31st Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Working
Conference on Data and Applications
Security and Privacy (DBSec 2017) will
be held in Philadelphia, PA, USA.
The conference seeks submissions from
academia, industry, and government
presenting novel research on all
theoretical and practical aspects of data
protection, privacy, and applications
security. Topics of interest include, but
are not limited to:
 access control
 knowledge discovery and privacy
 security and privacy in the Internet
of Things
 anonymity
 methodologies for data and
application security
 security and privacy in location-
based services
 applied cryptography in data
security
 network security
 security and privacy in P2P
scenarios and social networks
 authentication
 organizational security
 security and privacy in
pervasive/ubiquitous computing
 big data security
 privacy
 security and privacy policies
 data and system integrity
 secure cloud computing
 security management
 data protection
 secure distributed systems
 security metrics
homepage:https://dbsec2017.ittc.ku.edu
/?pageid=home
DSAA2017 - The 4th IEEE
International Conference on Data
Science and Advanced Analytics. 19-
21 October 2017, Tokyo, Japan.
Data driven scientific discovery is an
important emerging paradigm for
computing in areas including social,
service, Internet of Things, sensor
networks, telecommunications, biology,
health-care and cloud. Under this
paradigm, Data Science is the core that
drives new research in many areas,
from environmental to social. There are
many associated scientific challenges,
ranging from data capture, creation,
storage, search, sharing, modeling,
analysis, and visualization. We mention
here the integration across
heterogeneous, interdependent complex
data resources for real-time decision
making, streaming data, collaboration,
and ultimately value co-creation among
the complex aspects to be addressed.
Data science encompasses the areas of
data analytics, machine learning,
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big data, and has become essential to
glean understanding from large data
sets and convert data into actionable
intelligence, be it the data available to
enterprises, Government or on the Web.
International Conference on Data
Science and Advanced Analytics
(DSAA) started in 2014 aiming to be a
flagship in the data science and
analytics field. It provides a premier
forum that brings together researchers,
industry practitioners, as well as
potential users of data science and big
data analytics. It covers all data science
and analytics related areas, including
statistical, probabilistic and
mathematical methods, machine
learning, data and business analytics,
data mining and knowledge discovery,
infrastructure, storage, retrieval and
search, privacy and security, and
relevant applications, practices, tools
and evaluation. DSAA‘2014 was not a
fully IEEE supported conference, but
was technically co-sponsored by IEEE
Computational Intelligence Society
(CIS) and ACM through SIGKDD. DSAA
became a fully IEEE CIS supported
conference from the second edition. The
second IEEE DSAA‘2015 was held in
Paris in 2015 which was also very
successful. The third IEEE DSAA‘2016
is planned in Montreal. They continue to
be technically sponsored by ACM.
IEEE DSAA‘2017 will consist of two
main Tracks: Research and Application;
the Research Track is aimed at
collecting contributions related to
theoretical foundations of Data Science
and Data Analytics. The Application
Track is aimed at collecting
contributions related to applications of
Data Science and Data Analytics in real
life scenarios. DSAA‘2017 solicits then
both theoretical and practical works on
data science and advanced analytics. It
also inherits the unique features of past
successful DSAA, that is the Trends &
Controversies session where visionary
speakers are invited to outline different
insights and views about today and
future of data science and advanced
analytics, and the Special sessions
which replace the traditional workshop
and encourage submission of research
on emerging topics. DSAA‘2017 is also
featured by a panel session where
invited are internationally well
recognized researchers to discuss
challenges and important selected
topics.
homepage:http://www.dslab.it.aoyama.a
c.jp/dsaa2017/
17
th
International Conference on
Computational Science and
applications (ICCSA 2017), July 3
- 6, 2017, Trieste, Italy.
ICCSA 2017 is the next event in a
series of highly successful International
Conferences on Computational Science
and Its Applications (ICCSA). The first
ICCSA conference was co-organized by
C.J.K. Tan (UK) and M. Gavrilova (U of
Calgary, Canada) in 2003.
Computational Science is a main pillar
of most of the present research,
industrial and commercial activities and
plays a unique role in exploiting
Information and Communication
Technologies as innovative
technologies.
The ICCSA Conference offers a real
opportunity to discuss new issues,
tackle complex problems and find
advanced enabling solutions able to
shape new trends in Computational
Science.
Submitted papers will be subject to
stringent peer review by at least three
experts and carefully evaluated based
on originality, significance, technical
soundness, and clarity of exposition.
homepage: http://www.iccsa.org/
First International Conference on
Agro BigData and Decision Support
Systems in Agriculture. 27-29 Sep
2017, Montevideo, Uruguay.
The BigDSSAgro conference is devoted
to decision support systems in
agriculture, which combine models,
databases and algorithms to support
many real-world decision-making
problems.
The access to cheap sensor technology,
drones, climate data and forecasts,
satellite information about soils,
humidity and more is provoking a
revolution with the irruption of Big Data
and opening the door to the
development and application of novel
optimization and simulation models in
Agriculture and the Agri-food industries.
The main question to solve is how to
transform the huge amount of data into
useful information to decision-makers.
Current applications cover a wide range
of different areas, from food production
or animal welfare to sustainability or
climate change impact; and they are
expected to still increase in future. The
scope of the conference includes
findings on established andnew
Operations Research, Big Data and
Analytics methods ineffective decision-
making applications in Agriculture and in
the Agri-food industry, including their
supply chain, and also problems in
Forestry and in Environment studies.
Topics of interest to the conference
include, but are not limited to:
 Operational research methods
relevant to agriculture, forestry and
environment
 Sustainability indicators in
agriculture and environment
 Modelling sensor based data to get
useful information
 Big Data techniques with potential
applications in agriculture
 Optimization and simulation models,
including agent based simulation
 Decision support tools based on Big
Data and Operational research
techniques
 Decision support tools based on GIS
and their implications with Big Data
 Economic aspects of adoption of Big
Data analytics
 Applications of the above mentioned
methods in the various settings.
homepage:http://www.bigdssagro.udl.ca
t/?q=node/75&language=en
The International Conference on
Operational Research for
Development 2017 (ICORD 2017) July
13-14, 2017. Québec, Canada in
conjunction with the IFORS Triennial
Meeting (http://ifors2017.ca) .
The International Conference on OR for
Development (ICORD) aims to bring
together researchers from around the
world to present and discuss models
and methods to overcome issues faced
by developing countries. Eleven
ICORDs have taken place since 1992 in
countries across Asia, South America,
Africa and Europe (http://ifors.org/icord-
history/) with the latest one held in
México City in 2016. In 2017, the
ICORD will be held immediately prior to
the IFORS Triennial conference in
Quebec. In the past seven years as in
this year, the EURO Working Group on
OR for Development (EWG ORD) has
been a co-organizer of the ICORD.
homepage:http://ifors.org/icord2017/

16
21
st
Pacific-Asia Conference on
Information Systems (PACIS 2017).
“Societal Transformation Through
IS/IT”. 16-20 July, 2017, Langkawi
island, Malaysia.
The Pacific Asia Conference on
Information Systems (PACIS) is a
premier information systems conference
in the Asia Pacific region and is affiliated
with the Association for Information
Systems (AIS) since its inception in
1993. PACIS serves to provide a
platform for Information Systems and
Information Technology academics and
professionals to share their research
findings, ideas and practices in a high
quality annual forum. PACIS 2017 which
will be the 21st conference, will be held
in Meritus Pelangi Beach Resort & Spa
Langkawi, Malaysia. This will be the
second time PACIS will be located in
Malaysia after the 10th PACIS was
successfully held in Kuala Lumpur in
2006. The 3-day conference will be
preceded by a doctoral consortium,
workshops and relevant meetings.
PACIS 2017 will be organized by the
Malaysia Chapter of the Association for
Information Systems (MyAIS) and the
local host is the Department of
Information Systems, School of
Computing (SOC), Universiti Utara
Malaysia (UUM).
UUM is a specialized university focusing
on management education and is widely
recognized as the eminent management
university in Malaysia. UUM also acts as
a catalyst for socio-economic
development in the northern region of
Peninsular Malaysia. It is envisaged that
the university‘s basic infrastructure,
state-of-the-art facilities and the local
and international pool of human
resources will provide the much needed
impetus to develop and sustain most, if
not all socio-economic activities in the
region.
MyAIS is the Malaysian Chapter of
Association for Information Systems.
The Malaysian AIS chapter (MyAIS)
was initially established in 2009 by
academics from UniversitiTeknologi
Malaysia (UTM) and International
Islamic University of Malaysia (IIUM).
The first activity conducted by MyAIS
was the International Conference on
Research and Innovation in Information
Systems, which has been successfully
organized biennially for four times. The
5th ICRIIS will be organized as a sister
conference of PACIS 2017 at Adya
Hotel Langkawi on 16th to 17th July
2017.
homepage: www.pacis2017.org
EWG-DSS
Collab-Net Project:
Online Version
Can you help?
The EWG-DSS Collaboration Academic
Social Network Project (Collab-Net)
targets mainly to disseminate research
being conducted by members of the
group.
The development of the EWG-DSS
Collab-Net project counts with efforts of
the EWG-DSS Coordination Board team
and with the support of researchers
from the Federal University of
Pernambuco in Recife, Brazil, under the
supervision of Adiel Almeida and Ana
Paula Costa, from the University of
Macedonia in Greece, under the
supervision of Jason Papathanasiou;
and the University of Namur in Belgium,
under the supervision of Isabelle
Linden. We are very grateful to all the
involved persons in this project
cooperation.
Currenty, we are developing the online
version for the EWG-DSS Membership
and publications/ collaborations
database and network. A technical
report about the current version (3) of
the Collab-Net project was recently
published by IRIT (Jadielson Moura;
Ana Paula Cabral; Fatima Dargam;
Isabelle Linden; Pascale Zaraté. EWG-
DSS Collab-Net Project Version 3,
IRIT/RR--2016--06—FR, IRIT Tech.
Report, France, 2016).A poster about
the project Collab-Net in its version 3
was presented in the ICDSST2016, in
Plymouth, UK.
http://www.slideshare.net/ewgdss/icdsst
-2016-postercollabnet-60168735.
More details about the Collab-Net
Version 3 can be checked in its
domain:http://www.collab-net.com/.
We need volunteers from the EWG-
DSS to support us on this project!
Please contact us if you think yoiu
can help!
Details about the Collab-Net Project can
be read in the link below and in the
papers published about it, listed in the
Publications of the EWG-DSS group.
Link:
http://ewgdss.wordpress.com/ewg-dss-
net/
News about Members
Research Collaboration among
EWG-DSS Members
Fátima Dargam, founding member of
the EWG-DSS and member of the
Coordination Board since 2007, has
started in 2016 to collaborate with a
consulting company dedicated to the
Development, Management, Proposal
Preparation and Dissemination of
International Projects. The company is
called REACH Consultancy and is
based in Graz, Austria. Check it out!
REACH is one of the sponsors of the
ICDSST2017 - The 3rd EWG-DSS
International Conference of Decision
Support System Technology, in Namur,
Belgium, in the period of May 29-31,
2017.

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During the conference REACH will draw
a prize among the participants for a
Coaching Consulting Session on EU
Funding, Program & Calls for Projects.
Do not miss the ICDSST-2017
Conference and be a candidate for
REACH's prize!
REACH Consultancy
Riesstr. 120, A-8010 Graz, Austria
URL: www.reach-consultancy.eu
Email: office@reach-consultancy.eu
Tel.: +43 (0)677 62182475
Fax: +43 (0)316 38627815
Other Announcements
Experience & Competence
EWG-DSS Members-
InstitutionsResearch &Development
Competences for Collaboration in
European Projects
The EWG-DSS has Experience in
Research and Development in: Decision
Support Systems Applications in various
Real & Global Scenarios; Multi-Criteria
Decision Making (MCDM), including
Dynamic Decision Making Models;
Negotiation Support Systems, including
distributed, web-based systems;
Knowledge Management & Resource,
Discovery for Decision Making (DM);
and Innovative DM Methods,
Technologies and Real-Industry
Applications; among others.
In the document linked below,
https://ewgdss.files.wordpress.com/201
5/01/competences-of-ewg-dss-
members.pdf, you find a summary of
some EWG-DSS Members-Institutions
about their experience and competence
in research and development for
projects‘ collaboration.
For more details about this, check:
https://ewgdss.wordpress.com/experien
ce-competence/ .
The EWG-DSS is very grateful to all
group members who sent
contributions to this Newsletter.
Disclaimer
The EWG-DSS organizes its meetings,
conferences and workshops, counting
with the annual EUROfinancial support
and with the respective participation
fees to cover the events‘ expenses. The
EWG-DSS makes no profit with its
conferences and meetings.
If you wish to financially support further
events of the EWG-DSS, you are very
welcome to make a donation directly to
the EWG-DSS bank account below.
Steiermärkische Bank &. Sparkasse
Ragnitzstraße 177, 8047 Graz, Austria
Bank Nr.: 20815
Account Nr.: 00004-521076
Account Holder:
EWG-DSS EURO Working Group DSS
IBAN: AT022081500004521076
BIC: STSPAT2GXXX.
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Every member is very welcome to
contribute to theEWG-DSS annual
Newsletters.
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