DSS 2010 - the 15th IFIP WG 8.3 International Conference on Decision Support Systems under the theme
"Bridging the socio-technical gap in DSS - Challenges for the next decade"

July 7-10, 2010, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
http://dss2010.di.fc.ul.pt


In recent years, bridging the socio-technical gap has been a challenge in many areas of research. The socio-technical gap is the great divide between the social aspects aimed to be supported and those that are actually supported, due in part to technical limitations and in part to the complexity of the contexts where decision support must be provided. In Decision Support Systems, this challenge has raised several important questions concerned with the account and encapsulation of social aspects of managerial decision making as well as with the representation of certain human cognitive aspects, such as intuition or insights within computational systems. The 2010 International Conference of the IFIP WG 8.3 will focus on the theme "Bridging the socio-technical gap in DSS - Challenges for the next decade".

The IFIP TC8/Working Group 8.3 conferences present the latest innovations and achievements of academic communities on Decision Support Systems (DSS). These advances include theory, systems, computer aided methods, algorithms, techniques, applications and technologies supporting decision making.

DSS 2010 is sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Operations Research Center-UL and FCT.

Submissions from academics and practitioners are invited and showcases of real case studies will be especially welcomed. Manuscripts will be peer-reviewed. The acceptance of the contributions will be based on the originality of the work, the relevance for the conference theme and its overall quality.

Suggested research topics include, but are not limited to:
- Affect and emotion in Decision Support Systems, e.g.
- From rationality to intuition in decision making
- Decision making in high risk situations
- Decision Models in the real-world, e.g.
- Inclusion of ethical considerations in real-world decision models
- Supporting complex decisions, e.g. urban planning and environmental policy
- Supporting multiple perspectives and conflicting objectives
- Executive Information Systems, e.g.
- Value judgments in executive information systems
- Understanding how to represent soft information for decision support
- Communication and decision support in managerial groups
- Negotiation Support Systems, e.g.
- Cultural diversity in negotiation support systems
- Problem specific design of NSS
- Knowledge Management, e.g.
- Organizational issues in knowledge management
- People management as KM ? designing DSS to leverage human capital
- Social software and networks in KM
- Knowledge and Resource Discovery, e.g.
- Knowledge and resource discovery in corporate decision making
- Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing, e.g.
- Role of context in business intelligence and data warehousing
- Methods and tools to support the communication between developers and managers
- Developing BI systems that educate as well as provide information
- Group Support Systems, e.g.
- Supporting creativity in self-directed groups
- Distributed DM
- Collaborative Decision Making, e.g.
- Tradeoffs in collaborative decision making
- Understanding the articulation of individual and group decision making /how are managers? contributions integrated into the corporate decision making
- Socio-technical aspects for DM in Geographic Information Systems, e.g.
- Privacy in geographic information systems
- Socio behavioral dynamics of geographic information system
- Rich language for Decision Support, e.g.
- Methods and tools to support the communication between DSS developers and managers
- Developing decision support systems that educate as well as provide information
- Web 2.0 Systems in Decision Support, e.g.
- Crowd sourcing decisions in Web 2.0
- Collective intelligence and Web 2.0
- Incorporating Complex Factors in Decision Support, e.g.
- Including the value of intellectual capital
- Framing the decision problem
- Decision making for socio-technical systems
- Understanding the role of context in decision making

All accepted papers will be published in conference proceedings. Papers will be considered for publication as chapters of a book with the conference theme, published and distributed by Springer-Verlag. Submitted manuscripts must be original contributions which have not been previously published or submitted for publication elsewhere.

Accepted papers will be published only if at least one of the authors is registered to attend the conference in due time.

Following the tradition of IFIP WG 8.3 conferences, authors of the best papers will be invited to submit extended versions to special issues of such international scientific journals as Group Decision and Negotiation (GDN), Intelligent Decision Technologies International Journal (IDTJ), International Journal of Decision Support System Technology (IJDSST), and the Journal of Decision Systems (JDS).

Submissions categories
The submission categories are the following:
- Full papers ? 8-12 pages
- Short papers ? maximum of 6 pages
- Posters ? maximum of 4 pages
- Workshop proposals ? 2 pages

Important dates
Paper submission due: December 15th, 2009
Workshop proposal submission due: January 15th, 2010
Doctoral Consortium submission due: April 1st, 2010
Notification to authors: February 15th, 2010
Final version of accepted papers: March 15th, 2010
Poster submission due: April 1st, 2010
Main Conference: July 8th-10th, 2010
Doctoral Consortium: July 7th, 2010
Workshops: July 7th, 2010

The official language of the conference is English.


Keynote Speakers
Omar El Sawy, University of Southern California, USA
Liam Bannon, University of Limerick, Ireland


Conference Chair
Ana Respicio, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Steering Committee
Frederic Adam, University College Cork, Ireland
Frada Burstein, Monash University, Australia
Sven Carlsson, Lund University, Sweden
Patrick Humphreys, London School of Economics, UK
Piero Migliarese, University of Calabria, Italy
Gloria Philips-Wren, Loyola Maryland University, USA
Jos? Alberto Pino, University of Chile, Chile
Ana Respicio, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Pascale Zarat?, IRIT-ENSIACET-INPT, Toulouse, France

Program Committee Chairs
Ana Respicio, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Frederic Adam, University College Cork, Ireland
Gloria Philips-Wren, Loyola Maryland University, USA

Program Committee (to be completed)
Frederic Adam, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
Carlos Antunes, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
Pedro Antunes, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
David Arnott, Monash University, Monash, Australia
Marko Bohanec, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Marcos Borges, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Patrick Brezillon, University Paris VI, Paris, France
Tung Bui, University of Havaii, Hawaii, USA
Frada Burstein, Monash University Monash, Australia
Guy Camilleri, IRIT, Universit? Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
Sven Carlsson, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Athena Chatjoulis, National and Kapodistrian Univeristy of Athens, Athens, Greece
Joao Climaco, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
Fatima Dargam, SimTech / Austria & ILTC / Brazil, Austria
Marco De Marco, Catholic University, Milan, Italy
Luis Dias, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
Lucia Garcia-Lorenzo, London School of Economics, London, UK
Shanks Graeme, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Patrick Humphreys, London School of Economics, London, UK
Peter Keenan, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Garrick Jones, London School of Economics, London, UK
Claudia Loebbecke, University of Cologne, Koeln, Germany
Andrew McCosh, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Robert Meredith, Monash University, Monash, Australia
Piero Miglarese, University of Calabria, Calabria, Italy
Lapo Mola, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
Manuel Mora, Autonomous University of Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, Mexico
Jose Maria Moreno, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
M. Franca Norese, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy
Sergio F. Ochoa, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
Dan O'Leary, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
Zita Zoltay Paprika, Corvinus University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
David Paradice, Florida State University, Florida, USA
Gloria Phillips-Wren, Loyola Maryland University, Baltimore, USA
Jose A. Pino, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
Daniel Power, University of Northern Iowa, Iowa, USA
Franck Ravat, Universit? Toulouse I Capitole, Toulouse, France
Ana Respicio, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Rita Ribeiro, UNINOVA, Lisbon, Portugal
Chantal Soule-Dupuy, IRIT, Toulouse, France
Stanislaw Stanek, University of Economics in Katowice, Katowice, Poland
Carlos Teixeira, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Joao Telhada, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Rudolf Vetschera, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Pirkko Walden, Abo Akademi University, Turku, Finland
Gerard Wilhelm Weber, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
George Widmeyer, New Jersey Institute of Technology, New Jersey, USA
Pascale Zarat?, IRIT-ENSIACET-INPT, Toulouse, France
Martin Znidarsic, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Organising Committee
Joao Telhada, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Carlos Teixeira, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Rita Almeida Ribeiro, Uninova-CA3, New University of Lisbon, Portugal
Ana Respicio, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal

For updated relevant informations, Committees, Programme, Submission, and Venue, please visit DSS 2010 website at http://dss2010.di.fc.ul.pt

Contacts dss2010@di.fc.ul.pt