Topic: “Decision Support Systems – Main Developments & Future Trends”
A look backwards over the last 30 years to evaluate how well we stand on the research areas of Decision Making and in which direction we should better proceed.

The EURO Working Group on Decision Support Systems invites you to participate in the ICDSST 2019 International Conference on Decision Support System Technology on “Decision Support Systems – Main Developments & Future Trends” in the Madeira Island, Portugal. The Conference will be hosted at the UMA University of Madeira, during the period of May 27th to May 29th, 2019.

Due to the celebration of the 30 years of the EWG-DSS, the ICDSST 2019 aims at recapitulating the developments of the Decision Support Systems area in the last 3 decades, as well as enforcing the trends and new technologies in use, so that a consensus about the appropriate steps to be taken in future DSS research work can be established.

The Organizing Committee of the ICDSST 2019 invites 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 DSS challenges to submit their work to the ICDSST 2019.

In order to enforce the 30 Years Celebration of the EWG-DSS, all founding members of the EURO Working Group of Decision Support Systems and senior Collaborators from other DSS Communities, who have consistently contributed to the research in the DSS area in last years, are highly encouraged and invited to submit their contributions and participate in the conference.

Contributions: We encourage submissions addressing (among others) the suggested topics listed below. Authors are requested to submit full papers, short papers or posters.

Full Papers:
Full papers should be 11-13 pages long using LNBIP template from Springer by following “Instructions for Authors”. The Latex version of the LNBIP template can be downloaded from here, while the MS Word version of the LNBIP template can be downloaded from here.

Short Papers:
Short papers should have up to 6 pages and should use the Short-Paper ICDSST 2019 Template (Linked here: ICDSST-2019-short-paper-template).

Posters:
Posters should use the Poster ICDSST 2019 Template, which is set up to yield a 70 cm x 100 cm vertical poster. (Template linked here: ICDSST2019-Poster-Template). Printing of Posters for exhibition on the Conference Hall, will be at the responsibility of their own authors.

Accepted submissions will either be published in the Springer LNBIP Book (long papers) or in the ICDSST 2019 Online Conference Proceedings (short papers and posters).

Submissions: All papers and posters should be submitted to the ICDSST 2019 via the following EasyChair account: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icdsst2019.
Deadlines for Submissions:
Submission of full papers: 30 November 2018
Notification of acceptance: 15 February 2019
Camera ready version: 28 February 2019
Submission of short papers: 1 March 2019
Notification of acceptance: 10 April 2019
Camera ready version: 20 April 2019
Submission of posters: 15 March 2019
Notification of acceptance: 10 April 2019
Camera ready version: 20 April 2019
Suggested Paper Topics (but not limited to):

Advances in Research on Decision Making and Related Areas
Advances in applied Decision Support Systems
Trends for new developments in Decision Support Systems
Decision Making Integrated Solutions within Open Data Platforms
Knowledge Management & Resource Discovery for Decision Making
Decision Making Methods, Technologies and Real-Industry Applications
Geographic Information Systems and Decision Making/Support
Decision Making, Knowledge management and Business Intelligence
DSS for Business sustainability, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Decision Making in High & Medium Education
Innovative Decision Making Approaches/Methods and Technologies
Big Data Analytics Approaches for solving Decision Making Issues
Big Data Visualization to support Decision Analysis and Decision Making
Social-Networks Analysis for Decision Making
Group & Collaborative Decision Making
Multi-Attribute & Multi-Criteria Decision Making
Approaches & Advances in Group Decision Making
Approaches & Advances in Negotiation Decision Support Systems
Decision Support Systems & Decision Making in the Health Sector