Newsletter ewg dss nr 17 2018-2019

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No. 17, Year 2018 / 2019
EWG-DSS Newsletter
Newsletter of the EURO Working
Group on Decision Support System
In this Issue
Editorial....................................... ....1
Meet our Assistants………...….......2
EWGDSS Members .................... ....3
EWG-DSS Management Structure.3
EWG-DSS Channels................ .......3
Interview... ................................... ...4
EWG-DSS Award......................... ...5
Publications................................. ...6
Recent Journal Publications.....….6
EWG-DSS Events ........................... 8
EWG-DSS Meetings ....................... 8
Projects........................................... 8
Journal Announcements & Call for
Papers............................................. 9
Events in 2018................................ 9
Events in 2019.............................. 11
Sponsored Prizes......................... 12
Events in 2020 & Other Events ... 13
EWG-DSS Collab-Net Project...... 15
News about Members……......…...15
Other Announcements .............. ..16
Editorial Board
The Newsletter of the EURO WG on
Decision Support Systems is
annually edited by its current
Coordination Board Members:
Pascale Zaraté; Fátima Dargam;
Boris Delibasic; Shaofeng Liu;
Isabelle Linden; Pavlos Delias 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!
We are extremely happy to compile and share with you all this issue of the EWG-DSS
Newsletter, which reports the celebration of 30 years of our working group with
highlights of the fruitful events and news that have happened in the DSS community
over the last twelve months. At first, we would like to thank all of you who contributed
with contents for this issue and who continuously and consistently support our working
group with proactive engagement and participation in our organized initiatives. Our
DSS community needs your support and involvement to obtain significant scientific
and practical achievements. The EWG-DSS is happy to serve as means of your
contributions for the success towards a steady path to growing and flourishing in the
Decision Making scenario. It is time to evaluate where we stand and how we proceed!
Since last year, the EWG-DSS has consolidated its management and leadership with
a novel 3-dimensional structure, comprising a Co-ordination Board, an Advisory Board
and an Assistant Board. The helping hands of all those members in the organization
of our conferences and publication initiatives has been essential for the success of
the EWG-DSS. Together we form a very productive and cooperative team, which is
eager to expand and improve its activities. In this issue we share with the section
“Meet our Assistants”, which presents some impressions from the young members of
the EWG-DSS Assistant Board: Dr. Daouda Kamissoko, Dr. Oluwafemi Oyemomi,
Mr. Sandro Radovanovic and Ms. Giota Digkoglou. We hope you enjoy knowing a bit
more about them and their interaction with our group.
During the past year, we have successfully organised and participated on the
following events: The ICDSST 2018-PROMETHEE Days that took place in Crete,
Greece during the period of 22-25 May 2018, which had an extraordinary record
number of high quality papers and attendances; The IFIP DSS 2018, which was the
19th Open Conference of the IFIP WG 8.3 on Decision Support Systems held on 13-
15 June 2018 in Ljubljana, Slovenia; as well as DSS Stream of the EURO 2018
conference, the 29th European Conference on Operational Research, organised in
Valencia, Spain from 8 to 11 July. This year, the EWG-DSS organizes its 5th
ICDSST
in the format of a EURO Mini Conference, the EmC-ICDSST 2019 in May 2019, that
goes back to Madeira to celebrate there, where the EWG-DSS was born, its 30 years
of existence! In June the EWG-DSS participates on the Dublin EURO 2019 with the
DSS Stream organization as usual. Reports about all those events are found in this
issue. In terms of publications, the EWG-DSS most recent ones include a great
number of journal Special Issues and book series have been published with majority
of majority of contributing papers came from EWG-DSS members. Check details
about our recent publications in this issue.
We all hope this Newsletter feeds you with motivating information about our overall
work during the last year; and that you enjoy reading it! We look forward to your
contribution to our events in the next stage and to your sharing of your relevant stories
and news with us! Let us keep up the good work started 30 years ago! A big Thank
You from the Coordination Board! Enjoy your reading!
EWG-DSS Coordination Board. Photo taken in Crete during the ICDSST 2018.
Fatima Dargam Pascale Zaraté, Jason Papathanasiou, Isabelle Linden,
Boris Delibasic, Pavlos Delias, and Shaofeng Liu.

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Meet our Assistants
EWG-DSS Board of Assistants
Officially, since 2018 the EWG-DSS has
a team of Board Assistants to support the
EWG-DSS Coordination Board Members
in the various organized events and
activities of the group.
The photo above was taken in Crete,
during the ICDSST 2018. From left to
right: Daouda Kamissoko, Uchitha
Jayawickrama, Sandro Radovanovic,
and Panagiota (Giota) Digkoglou.
Oluwafemi Oyemomi (Femi) is missing in
the picture. Below you will have the
opportunity to know the personal
impressions of each of the Board of
Assistants Members about collaborating
with the EWG-DSS.
Daouda Kamissoko
“Daouda’s impressions about serving
the EWG-DSS Board of Assistant,
officially since 2018 - I am a member
of the Board of Assistant of the EWG-
DSS since 2018. The Workshop on
“Decision Support Systems & Operations
Management Trends and Solutions in
Industries” that took place in April 2012
in Liverpool was my first involvement in
the group. I won the award of the EWG-
DSS 2013. By serving the EWG-DSS
within its Board of Assistants, I contribute
to energizing the already existing
synergy and building the group’s network
with recognized experts in decision
making.”
Dr. Daouda Kamissoko is Associate
Professor at the Ecoles des Mines d'Albi
Carmaux, in Albi, Midi-Pyrénées,
France.
daouda.kamissoko@mines-albi.fr
Oluwafemi Oyemomi
“Femi’s impressions about serving
officially since 2018 - I am a member of
the Board of Assistants of the EWG-
DSS. My first EWG-DSS experience was
at IFORS 2014 in Barcelona, Spain. I
was part of the coordinating committee
for the EWG-DSS group at IFORS2017
in Quebec, Canada. I am delighted to
serve as a Board of Assistant to
contribute to the development of the
working group in years to come.”
Dr. Oluwafemi Oyemomi is Lecturer in
the Business Information Management
Department of the Newcastle Business
School of Northumbria University, UK
femi.olan@northumbria.ac.uk
Sandro Radovanic
“Sandro’s impressions about serving
officially since 2018 - I am a member of
the EWG-DSS Board of Assistant
officially since 2018, and I helped in
Group activities, such as organization of
the conference and sharing materials on
social media. The EWG-DSS allowed me
to discuss and share knowledge with
other Board of Assistant members on
Decision Support Systems, Decision
Theory and Machine Learning, and also
learning from recognized experts in
these fields. Thank you all for a great
time!”
Mr Sandro Radovanovic has a Master
of Science in Business Intelligence and
is currently a PhD student at the Faculty
of Organizational Sciences. University of
Belgrade in Serbia.
sandro.radovanovic@fon.bg.ac.rs
Panagiota Digkoglou
“Giota’s impressions about serving
officially since 2018 - In 2018 I became
a member of the EWG-DSS Board of
Assistant and since then I am actively
involved with the group's activities. The
first meeting with the EWG-DSS group I
participated was at the ICDSST –
PROMETHEE DAYS 2018 in Crete,
where cooperative relations
were developed with all its core
members and a base was created for a
creative future. All in all, this is a great
and promising experience for me!”
Ms. Panagiota (Giota) Digkoglou is
currently a PhD student at the
Department of Business Administration
of the University of Macedonia in
Thessaloniki, Greece.
giotadigkoglou@outlook.com
Uchitha Jayawickrama
“Uchitha’s impressions about serving
officially since 2018 - I started the
journey with EWG-DSS in the year 2012

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at the EWG-DSS workshop in Liverpool,
UK. I won the best paper award in 2016
at EWG-DSS conference (ICDSST
2016) and I am delighted to serve as a
Board of Assistant member in order to
contribute to the development of the
working group in years to come.”
Uchitha is happy to have been invited by
the EWG-DSS in 2018 to be the local
organizer, together with the team of his
department, of the ICDSST in 2021 at the
Staffordshire University in the UK.
Dr. Uchitha Jayawickrama is Senior
Lecturer and Course Manager of the
MSc in Information Systems of the
Staffordshire University in the UK.
Uchitha.Jayawickrama@staffs.ac.uk
EWG-DSS Members
The EWG-DSS has currently over 350
officially registered members, 331
members in its LinkedIn group, and 151
followers in Twitter.
The EWG-DSS membership has
substantially grown since its creation in
1989 (with 24 members). 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.
If you are a member, you can check the
EWG-DSS list of members and their
research interaction via your login in the
IRIT server (using option Review
Members). Alternatively, an updated list
of registered members can be sent to
you, by request (ewg-dss@fccdp.com).
EWG-DSS complies with the terms of the
data protection legislation in force in the
European Union (the General Data
Protection Regulation GDPR). If you, as
a member of the EWG-DSS, does not
wish to have your name and affiliation
listed in the “list of Members” that may be
distributed to other members on request,
please contact the EWG-DSS
Coordinators and opt out of the list
officially via E-mail. Check the page
linked below for more details about the
EWG-DSS data privacy policy:
https://icdsst2019.wordpress.com/conta
ct/privacy-policy/
EWG-DSS
Management Structure
The EWG-DSS management structure
includes a Coordination Board (EWG-
DSS Coordinators & Executive Board),
an Advisory Board (AB), a Board of
Assistants, and two teams formed by the
group members who collaborate with
EWG-DSS joint editions and research
projects, namely: the ET Editorial Team
and the SCT Scientific Collaboration
Team. The ET is composed of
researchers that have guest-edited
Journal Special Issues and Springer
Books with the CB. The SCT includes
researchers who are involved with the
EWG-DSS research projects and
initiatives. Board and Team members
can be in more than one of the groups of
the EWG-DSS Management Structure.
See figure below. However, the
members of the Coordination Board are
not members of the Advisory Board, and
vice-versa.
Only the Coordination & Executive Board
CB-EB can officially report to EURO and
reply to EWG-DSS Members. The Board
of Assistants (BA) is formed by young
researchers linked to the CB-EB
members, in order to assist them with the
EWG-DSS annual tasks.
Current EWG-DSS BA Members
Find below the list of the Board of
Assistants that currently collaborate with
the EWG-DSS CB.
EWG-DSS Board of Assistants (BA):
1. Dr. Daouda Kamissoko
Ecoles des Mines d'Albi Carmaux
Albi, Midi-Pyrénées, France
daouda.kamissoko@mines-albi.fr
2. Dr. Oluwafemi Oyemomi
Northumbria University, UK
oluwafemi.oyemomi@northumbria.ac.uk
3. Mr Sandro Radovanovic
University of Belgrade, Serbia
sandro.radovanovic@fon.bg.ac.rs
4. Ms. Panagiota (Giota) Digkoglou
University of Macedonia, Greece
giotadigkoglou@outlook.com
5. Dr. Uchitha Jayawickrama
Staffordshire University, UK
Uchitha.Jayawickrama@staffs.ac.uk
The EWG-DSS Advisory Board
The AB includes experienced long-term
members and researchers of the EWG-
DSS 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.
Current EWG-DSS AB Members:
Advisory Board Chair (AB Chair):
Prof. Rita Ribeiro
(e-mail: rar@uninova.pt)
UNINOVA University, Lisbon, Portugal
Advisory Board Members:
1. Prof. José Maria Moreno
University of Zaragoza, Spain
2. Prof. Alexis Tsoukias
CNRS-LAMSADE, France
3. Prof. Philip Powell
Birkbeck, University of London, UK
4. Prof. Adiel Teixeira de Almeida
Federal University of Pernambuco,
Brazil
5. Prof. Marko Bohanec
Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
6. Prof. D. Marc Kilgour
Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
7. Dr. Jorge Hernández
University of Liverpool, UK
8. Prof. Jorge Freire de Souza
University of Porto, Portugal
EWG-DSS Channels
“Networking makes us stronger. Our
communication channels are our
main tools to cooperate in projects
and research.”
The EWG-DSS communication channels
facilitate the interaction among the
working group members and between
the Coordination Board and all members.
EWG-DSS Mailing Options:
EWG-DSS E-mail:
ewg-dss@fccdp.com
This e-mail address put you in contact
with all current EWG-DSS Coordination
Board Members at the same time.
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.
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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.
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
website is the DSS Working Group’s
official homepage. There you find a
summary of the detailed information you
find in the EWG-DSS Blog and the links
to the DSS organized 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 318 members. This group is
open to all Linked-In users. There you
find briefings of the EWG-DSS activities,
discussions of related topics, job
opportunities and other announcements,
like conferences calls for participation,
Journals calls for papers, etc.
You are very welcome to post your
announcements in the EWG-DSS
LinkedIn Group. If you like networking
and you wish to make your
announcements more visible to a wider
and selective audience, you should take
advantage of our group in this platform!
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 of the group. 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
Since 2014 the EWG-DSS Twitter
account 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. The EWG-DSS Twitter
account is also used to post pertinent
information about our ICT areas of
research. Follow us on Twitter
(@EWGDSS) to get breaking news of
our activities within the DSS
communities in Europe and Worldwide!
EWG-DSS New Homepage @EURO
Since 2018 the EWG-DSS has started its
migration from the EWG-DSS homepage
(Blog) in Wordpress to a homepage in
the EURO platform. This homepage is
still under construction, considering new
content structure and graphic
illustrations as well. The EWG-DSS is
grateful for the support promised from
EURO for the work effort involved in this
migration task. Stay tuned and you will
be informed about our launching of the
new EWG-DSS Homepage at the
address: https://www.euro-
online.org/websites/dss/
Interview
José Paixão
Vice-Rector of the University of
Lisbon, Portugal
https://www.ulisboa.pt/membro-
equipa/jose-manuel-pinto-paixao
Prof. José Paixão was the local
organizer of the EURO Summer
Institute on DSS in Madeira in 1989,
when the EWG-DSS was created.
EWG-DSS: Dear José Paixão, thank
you very much for giving this
interview to the EWG-DSS newsletter.
We would like to start by knowing
more about your background.
JP: I have a background in Mathematics.
I graduated in the early seventies from
the Faculty of Sciences of the University
of Lisbon and got my PhD from the
Imperial College London, in 1984. My
PhD thesis was about algorithms for
large scale set covering problems.
EWG-DSS: Can you please tell us
about your career?
JP: I must say that, from a very
young age, I embraced an academic
career in its full perspective. That is,
committed to the functions of creation
and transmission of knowledge in the
most diverse aspects. I have always tried
to put my scientific skills at the service of
the institution that welcomed me and the
society that granted me the privilege of
doing what I like to do.
In almost 50 years of my career, I
consider myself a very fortunate person
who had the opportunity to perform the
most diverse duties in the academy: as a
teacher and researcher, but also as a
manager in all levels.
EWG-DSS: You were the organizer of
EURO Summer Institute on DSS in
Madeira in 1989, when the EWG-DSS
was created. How did the idea of
creating the EWG-DSS come up?
JP: Actually, when I proposed the topic
of school - Decision Support Systems, I
did not have in mind the creation of a
structured group within the EURO but
only to identify a challenging theme that
would mobilize young researchers. The
dynamics of school functioning and the
brilliant ability of the 24 young people
selected from 16 different countries led to
the creation of the EWG-DSS from an
early stage, with a solid foundation and a
well-crafted work agenda.
EWG-DSS: How do you perceive the
evolution of the Decision-Making and
Decision Support Systems research
areas in these last three decades?
JP: Firstly, let me say, the figures speak
for themselves: the EWG-DSS now has
more than 300 members and has
maintained a continuous activity over
time translated into numerous initiatives
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EWG-DSS: We would like to know how
your scientific work relates with the
Decision Support Systems research
area.
JP: This is a very interesting question
because I am not really a researcher in
the DSS area. However, all my scientific
work has to do with DSS. In a simple
way, my scientific activity focuses on the
development of models and the
application of combinatorial optimization
techniques for solving practical
problems, in which human control is
essential. In this context, "my algorithm"
integrates a naturally more complex
system and, possibly, will have to adapt
to requirements not previously
contemplated.
EWG-DSS: In this context, can you
please let us know about your most
recent and challenging projects?
JP: For the last years, I’ve been focused
on transport problems that combine two
extremely important aspects at present:
multi-mobility and the huge volume of
information available.
On the one hand, the mobility paradigm
has changed profoundly, giving the user
the power to decide using mobile devices
and ubiquitous computing. On the other
hand, both the service provider and the
user have a wealth of information and,
consequently, knowledge to take their
options. From my point of view, this
changes our (mathematicians and
researchers in OR) approach to
problems.
Personally, I want to encourage my
fellow investigators to tackle the new
challenges they pose with the
technological wave and the requirement
to maintain human control over the
process.
EWG-DSS: Can you please
summarise what does the EURO
organisation mean to you and, more
generally, how do you perceive the
importance of EURO for the OR
community?
JP: EURO has always had a
fundamental role for me, as a frame of
reference and as a framework for my
activity as researcher and teacher. From
the mere participation in the conferences
to the organization of events like the
1989 Summer Institute on DSS, in
Madeira, or the XXIV EURO Conference,
in Lisbon, in 2010, I learned a lot from
many members of the association.
I have no doubts that EURO is an
extraordinary example how the result of
the summation may be greater than the
sum of the parcels.
EWG-DSS: Can you give us your
opinion on how did the EURO
Summer Institute on DSS impact on
the evolution of the DSS research area
as well as in the research career of its
participants?
JP: That is indeed one of my major
reasons of pride. When I see the
evolvement of the participants in that
Summer Institute truly gives me "goose
bumps." Brilliant CVs, top positions in the
OR community, and outstanding
institutional positions. All these aspects
are very visible in the set of participants
at the EURO Summer Institute, 30 years
ago.
EWG-DSS: Thank you once again for
giving this interview and we hope to
see you soon in Madeira, for the EmC-
ICDSST 2019, celebrating the 30 years
of the EWG-DSS.
JP: Thank you very much for the
opportunity given to remember a very
special occasion for me.
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.
Winners of the 2018-Award:
We have the pleasure to announce that
this time, Glykeria Myrovali and Georgios
Tsaples share the EURO Working Group
on Decision Support Systems EWG-
DSS 2018 Young Researcher of the
Year award with the paper “An
Interactive Learning Environment Based
on System Dynamics Methodology for
Sustainable Mobility Challenges
Communication & Citizens’
Engagement” presented during the
EWG-DSS 2018 International
Conference on Decision Support System
Technology in Heraclion, Greece, 22 –
25 May 2018. We sincerely congratulate
both Glykeria and Georgios!
Glykeria Myrovali
Georgios Tsaples
The official award ceremony will be held
at the EmC-ICDSST 2019 in Madeira,
Portugal.
EWG-DSS 2019-Award
The EWG-DSS 2019 Award will be given
to the best paper or most innovative
presented work, among the research
work submitted and presented in the
EmC-ICDSST 2019 in Madeira,
Portugal. The papers will be assessed
and evaluated for the EWG-DSS 2019
Award during the conference. Result of
the winner will only be communicated
sometime after the EmC-ICDSST 2019.

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Next Award in EWG-DSS 2020:
The “EWG-DSS Award 2020″ can still
be yours!
Participate in the ICDSST 2020, in
Zaragoza, Spain, 27-29 May 2020, and
compete for the EWG-DSS 2020 Award!
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/
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 the
group, who sent their information for 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
• Decision Support Systems VIII:
Sustainable Data-Driven and
Evidence-Based Decision Support
4th International Conference, ICDSST
2018, Heraklion, Greece, May 22–25,
2018, Proceedings
Editors: F. Dargam, P. Delias, I.
Linden, B. Mareschal.
https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783
319903149
This book constitutes the proceedings of
the 4th International Conference on
Decision Support Systems, ICDSST
2018, held in Heraklion, Greece, in May
2018. The main topic of this year’s
conference was “Sustainable Data-
Driven and Evidence Based Decision
Support”. The 15 papers presented in
this volume were carefully reviewed and
selected from 71 submissions. They
were organized in topical sections
named: decision support systems for a
sustainable society; decision support
systems serving the public; decision
support systems in management and
organization; and advances in decision
support systems’ technologies and
methods.
The EWG-DSS series of International
Conference on Decision Support System
Technology (ICDSST), starting with
ICDSST 2015 in Belgrade, were planned
to consolidate the tradition of annual
events organized by the EWG-DSS in
offering a platform for European and
international DSS communities,
comprising the academic and industrial
sectors, to present state-of-the-art DSS
research and developments, to discuss
current challenges that surround
decision-making processes, to exchange
ideas about realistic and innovative
solutions, and to co-develop potential
business opportunities.
A Book of Abstract was also produced for
the ICDSST 2018 and can downloaded
via the link:
https://icdsst2018.files.wordpress.com/2
018/05/icdsst-e28093-promethee-days-
2018-book-of-abstracts.pdf
• Multiple Criteria Decision Aid:
Methods, Examples and Python
Implementations
Authors: Jason Papathanasiou and
Nikolaos Ploskas
Multiple criteria decision aid (MCDA)
methods are illustrated in this book
through theoretical and computational
techniques utilizing Python. Existing
methods are presented in detail with a
step by step learning approach.
Theoretical background is given for
TOPSIS, VIKOR, PROMETHEE, SIR,
AHP, goal programming, and their
variations. Comprehensive numerical
examples are also discussed for each
method in conjunction with easy to follow
Python code. Extensions to multiple
criteria decision making algorithms such
as fuzzy number theory and group
decision making are introduced and
implemented through Python as well.
Readers will learn how to implement and
use each method based on the problem,
the available data, the stakeholders
involved, and the various requirements
needed. Focusing on the practical
aspects of the multiple criteria decision
making methodologies, this book is
designed for researchers, practitioners
and advanced graduate students in the
applied mathematics, information
systems, operations research and
business administration disciplines, as
well as other engineers and scientists
oriented in interdisciplinary research.
https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783
319916460
Members’ Recent News and
Publications
• In 2018, our EWG-DSS Coordinator
Pascale Zaraté, was awarded by the
Group Decision and Negotiation of
INFORMS, the annual INFORMS-
GDN-Award for her activity and her
involvement in the GDN community for
many years. Pascale went to the GDN
2018 Conference in China to receive
the prize and was the 3rd academic
woman to achieve this Award! We are
all very proud of her! Well-done!
• Prof. Claudia Loebbecke Upon
nominaton and election, in 2018,
became (proudly) member of the
European Academy of Sciences and
Arts (www.euro-acad.eu).
Recent Journal
Publications
1. Maria de Fátima Teles, Jorge Freire de
Sousa, Linking fields with GMA:
Sustainability, companies, people and
Operational Research, Technological
Forecasting and Social Change, Volume
126, January 2018, Pages 138-146. DOI:
10.1016/j.techfore.2017.05.012.
2. Paper presented at the IFIP-DSS2018
conference in Ljubljana. Boris Delibasic
and Sandro Radovanovic presenting the
@EWGDSS group with a paper about
Ski-injury and the DEX method, as
shown below.

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Book Announcements
• Large Group Decision Making.
Creating Decision Support
Approaches at Scale
Author: Palomares Carrascosa, Iván
This Springer Brief provides a
pioneering, central point of reference for
the interested reader in Large Group
Decision Making trends such as
consensus support, fusion and weighting
of relevant decision information,
subgroup clustering, behavior
management, and implementation of
decision support systems, among others.
Based on the challenges and difficulties
found in classical approaches to handle
large decision groups, the principles,
families of techniques, and newly related
disciplines to Large-Group Decision
Making (such as Data Science, Artificial
Intelligence, Social Network Analysis,
Opinion Dynamics, Behavioral and
Cognitive Sciences), are discussed.
Real-world applications and future
directions of research on this novel topic
are likewise highlighted..
https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783
030010263#otherversion=97830300102
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• New Methods and Applications
in Multiple Attribute Decision
Making (MADM)
Authors: Alinezhad, Alireza, Khalili,
Javad
This book presents 27 methods of the
Multiple Attribute Decision Making
(MADM), which are not discussed in the
existing books, nor studied in details,
using more applications. Nowadays,
decision making is one of the most
important and fundamental tasks of
management as an organizational goal
achievement that depends on its quality.
Decision making includes the correct
expression of objectives, determining
different and possible solutions,
evaluating their feasibility, assessing the
consequences, and the results of
implementing each solution, and finally,
selecting and implementing the solution.
Multiple Criteria Decision Making
(MCDM) is sum of the decision making
techniques. MCDM is divided into the
Multiple Objective Decision Making
(MODM) for designing the best solution
and MADM for selecting the best
alternative. Given that the applications of
MADM are mostly more than MODM,
wide various techniques have been
developed for MADM by researchers
over the last 60 years, and the current
book introduces some of the other new
MADM methods.
030150082
• Multiple Criteria Decision Making
and Aiding Cases on Models and
Methods with Computer
Implementations
Editors: Huber, Sandra, Geiger, Martin
Josef, de Almeida, Adiel Teixeira
This book introduces students on
Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding and
Making courses to practical, real-world
cases. Each case study introduces a
problem or situation together with a
method, and a description and
explanation of a computer application. In
this sense each chapter is based on four
pillars: the problem, the model building,
the methods and their implementation.
The book presents and elaborates a rich
and comprehensive set of practical
problems comprising multiple criteria,
including numerous approaches for their
solution, for decision support or decision
aid. It complements traditional textbooks
and lecture material by employing case
studies to promote a deeper
understanding of the investigated
concepts and help students apply these
methods to other areas.
319993034
• Decision Making and
Performance Evaluation Using
Data Envelopment Analysis
Authors: Khezrimotlagh, Dariush,
Chen, Yao
This book offers new transparent views
and step-by-step methods for
performance evaluation of a set of units
using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA).
The book has twelve practical chapters.
Elementary concepts and definitions are
gradually built in Chapters 1-6 based
upon four examples of one input and one
output factors, two input factors, two
output factors, and four input and three
output factors. Simultaneously, the
mathematical foundations using linear
programming are also introduced without
any prerequisites. A reader with basic
knowledge of mathematics and
computers is able to understand the
contents of the book. In addition, to
prevent pre-judgment about the available
concepts and definitions in the DEA
literature, some new phrases are
introduced and, after elucidating each
phrase in detail in Chapters 1-6, they are
reintroduced for industry-wide accuracy
in Chapter 7. After that, some of the more
advanced DEA topics are illustrated in
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planning problems, output-input ratio
analysis, efficiency over different time
periods, Malmquist efficiency indexes,
and a delta neighborhood model.
A clear overview of many of the
elementary and advanced concepts of
DEA is provided, including Technical
Efficiency, Relative Efficiency,
Cost/Revenue/Profit Efficiency,
Price/Overall Efficiency, the DEA
axioms, the mathematical background to
measure technical efficiency and overall
efficiency, the multiplier/envelopment
form of basic DEA models in
input/output-orientation, the
multiplier/envelopment of Additive DEA
model, the multiplier/envelopment of
slacks-based models, and others. The
book also covers a variety of DEA
techniques, input-output ratio analysis,
the natural relationships between DEA
frontier and the ratio of output to input
factors, production-planning problems,
planning ideas with a centralized
decision-making unit, context-dependent
DEA, Malmquist efficiency index,
efficiency over different time periods, and
others. End-of-chapter exercises are
provided for each chapter.
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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 almost a
decade at least one conference/
workshop per year, with which our group
makes 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
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,
. Heraklion (Greece) – 2018.
. Lubjlana (Slovenia) – 2018;
. Valencia (Spain) – 2018;
. Madeira (Portugal) – 2019;
. Dublin (Ireland) – 2019.
Projects
Opti-MOVES project with
impact on the transport
sector.
Quality management of intermodal public
transport services: diagnosis and
optimization (Opti-MOVES), project
financed by the Portuguese Science
Foundation (FCT) under Portugal 2020 -
EU FEDER Program
INESC TEC leads the Opti-MOVES
project, which will offer an innovative
solution to increase the quality and
reliability of intermodal urban public
transport services. Through an
integrated approach that combines
diagnostic and optimization tools, the
Opti-MOVES project aims to promote the
use of public transport and the reduction
of energy costs and pollutant emissions.
Research is based on a participative
process and on large amounts of
operational data of public transport
systems, obtained from several
operators, in different urban contexts.
The Opti-MOVES is structured around
three main components: (i) visualization
(multimedia) and knowledge extraction
(through data-mining and machine-
learning) methods, allowing an easy and
efficient identification of spatiotemporal
patterns and factors affecting the quality
of services; (ii) optimization (meta-
heuristics) methods capable of improving
the quality levels of these services; and
(iii) an information system that supports
decision making.
[Researchers: Tânia Fontes, Teresa
Galvão, Jorge Freire de Sousa, Ana
Camanho, Jorge Pinho, José Luís
Borges, Carlos Soares. Dates: July
2018 – January 2021]
SUSTAIN
Sustainable development is among the
grand challenges of the next decades.
To come close to achieving that state,
the European Union is committed to
mainstream the Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs) in the
European policy framework and current
Commission priorities. Moreover, special
attention is paid to means for the
achievement of the SDGs, their universal
application to all countries and the
simultaneous address of the economic,
environmental, and societal dimensions
of sustainability. Thus, there is the need
of not only raising awareness on the
issue of sustainability, but acquiring
sustainability literacy, in the sense of a
functional education that will provide the
necessary skill and motives to cope with
the challenges of and contribute to
sustainable development.
As a result, it is essential to provide an
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higher education that will be the policy
makers of tomorrow.Serious Games are
a serious candidate to take that role and
teach the complexity of sustainable
development.
The objective of the SUSTAIN project is
to commence and promote sustainable
literacy among students of higher
education (and young people in general)
through an innovative and student-
centered education. To achieve this
objective, we will design, develop and
implement a course to be taught in
students of higher education; a course
hybrid in nature, as it will combine game-
based learning with an analytical style of
education. In detail:
1) The course will deal with
transportation sustainability, societal
metabolism and decision making under
those contexts. The purpose will be to
teach students the definitions of those
notions, how they are translated in
everyday life, and formalize the
mathematics necessary to make robust
decisions.
2) The project team will develop small,
illustrative simulation models that will
make the definitions more concrete and
allow students to experiment in a
consequence-free environment. The
simulation models can be used to identify
scenario exemplars on how we can
achieve sustainable urban transportation
and a balanced societal metabolism,
while taking into account formal decision
making process. Thus, greater insights
will be provided to the policy makers of
the future regarding the complexities of
decisions in uncertain issues where
many stakeholders are involved.
3) The approach of the SUSTAIN project
is hybrid and as such the material
developed so far, will be translated, in the
elements and mechanics of a Serious
Game. The purpose is to create a board
game that will allow students to learn
about transportation sustainability and
societal metabolism through playing.
One important aspect of the design of the
game will be that it will avoid being just
an informational/fact-delivering game;
the core design principle will combine
delivery of facts with experiential
elements that will allow students to
explore their own sustainability goals and
the means to achieve them.
The project team envisages that the
impact of the project will be in three
areas:
- At the European (and EU) level, the
project will provide added value in the
efforts of the EU to disseminate the
principles of sustainability, while at the
same time educate the future generation
of policy makers to be better equipped in
order to promote and achieve the SDGs.
Furthermore, the project will continue the
effort for an enhanced education that will
utilize and incorporate the principles of
game-based learning and IC
Technologies.
- For the partners of the project, the
impact will take the form of a
strengthened cooperation and
networking of different organizations
among different European countries and
with different scopes and experiences. At
the same time, it will strengthen the role
of the participating partners in their
respective areas, as the project will bring
cutting-edge research closer to students
and citizens.
- Finally, for the students that will
participate in the project, the new course
will provide a more student-centered
education that will inform them on
important EU and global issues, and at
the same time help teach them develop
the key competences to deal with
complex situations that they will have to
face. The project will bring them in touch
with the work performed by the partners
and connect them with other facets of the
European culture.
Website: http://sustainerasmus.eu/wp/
Journal
Announcements & Call
for Papers
Call for Papers for a Special Issue in
the Journal Sustainability (MDPI,
Impact Factor: 2.075): "Sustainability
Issues in Public Transport", Guest
Editors: Jorge Freire de Sousa, Yuval
Hadas.
Message from the Guest Editors: This
Special Issue will focus on all the fields
of research contributing to the
sustainability of public transport systems.
We welcome authors to present the
state-of-the art research and
applications, and to discuss the latest
progress, new techniques,
methodologies and potential research
topics, particularly new research
directions of unsolved issues. Topics of
interest for publication include, but are
not limited to: Planning (network design,
timetabling, vehicle and driver
scheduling); Policy (governance,
economics, funding, citizen
involvement); Operations (monitoring,
control, robustness, flexibility, efficiency);
Mobility and accessibility needs, social
equity, behaviour models; Environmental
impacts (emissions, noise control,
energy); Traffic congestion and safety;
Modal shift, multimodality, integration of
modes (including logistics); Urban
development (land use, infrastructures,
facilities and vehicles). Deadline for
manuscript submissions: 31 July 2019.
Events in 2018
ICDSST 2018
ICDSST – PROMETHEE DAYS 2018
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 sector
The conference in Crete has been a
great success! There have been 75
submissions and 5 invited speakers plus
a couple of panels. We wish to take this
opportunity to thank you all again for
coming and contributing to the success
of the event! We also thank our hosts, the
Hellenic Institute of Marine Research in
Heraklion, for the warm and very
pleasant hosting of our conference in
their lovely city!
Purpose of the ICDSST –
PROMETHEE DAYS 2018
The joint-conference aimed 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 were also welcome to
participate and disseminate their
theoretical developments, comparative
analyses or practical applications of the
PROMETHEE methods.
ICDSST – PROMETHEE DAYS 2018
Main Theme
The ICDSST – PROMETHEE DAYS
2018 focused 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
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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.
Some photos from the conference can be
seen here:
EWG-DSS @IFIP DSS 2018
The EWG-DSS was represented in the
19th Open Conference of the IFIP WG
8.3 on Decision Support Systems IFIP
DSS 2018 held during 13-15 June 2018,
in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The theme of the
conference was “DSS Research
Delivering High Impacts to Business and
Society”. Details of CfP are available
from the IFIP DSS 2018 website:
http://ifip2018dss.ijs.si
The EWG-DSS initially planned to
coordinate a Conference Section on the
IFIP DSS 2018 about "DSS for Risk,
Safety, Security and Uncertainty
Management". However, due to lack of
submissions, those sessions did not take
place, but one of the EWG-DSS
Coordinators, Boris Delibasic, took part
at the conference chairing a session.
The EWG-DSS is very grateful to the
IFIP WG8.3 DSS Group for this
collaboration at IFIP DSS 2018!
Boris Delibasic, from EWG-DSS CB,
presenting the EWGDSS project
Collab-Net poster on #ifipdss2018 in
#Ljubljana, #Slovenia.
DSS Stream @EURO 2018
The EWG-DSS took part in the
organisation of the EURO 2018
conference, the 29th European
Conference on Operational Research,
organised in Valencia, Spain from 8 to 11
July. The executive board of the EWG-
DSS selected eight papers for two
sessions within the stream Decision
Analysis, Decision Support Systems,
DEA and Performance Measurement:
• Group Decision Processes
• Decision Support Systems: AI
Techniques.
These sessions were chaired by
Shaofeng Liu and Pascale Zaraté in the
DSS Stream of the EURO2018 in
Valencia.
Pascale Zaraté representing the EWG-
DSS at the EURO2018 in Spain.
EURO Distinguished Service Medal
Award
During the EURO-k Conference the
Award (EDSM) is assigned to one
researcher. The EDSM was approved by
the Executive Committee in July 2006.
The EDSM should honour extraordinary
efforts and should be awarded for
recognition of distinguished service to
EURO and to the profession of OR. The
award is officially bestowed in
conjunction with a EURO-k Conference,
if there is a suitable candidate. Following
a presentation of the competition by the
chair of the jury, the laureate receives the
Award and a diploma. Only one award
may be made on each occasion. The jury
of the EURO Distinguished Service
Medal 2018 was composed by: Ulrike
Leopold-Wildburger (Austria) - chair,
Roman Słowiński (Poland), Pascale
Zaraté (France), Sally Brailsford (UK),
Hans Ittmann (South Africa). In 2019
Pascale Zaraté will also take part in the
jury of the EURO Medal 2019 to be
decided in the Dublin EURO 2019 in
Ireland. Who will be the winner this time?
ICDSST 2018 Publications
A comprehensive list of publications of
the EWG-DSS can be found in the
group homepage linked below:
https://ewgdss.wordpress.com/ewg-dss-
academic-production/ .
The publications produced with the
ICDSST2018 are the following:
• Proceedings of the EWG-DSS
ICDSST & PROMETHEE DAYS
2018 on “Sustainable Data-Driven
& Evidence-based Decision
Support with applications to the
Environment and Energy sector”.
Editors: J. Papathanasiou, P.
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Linden, B. Mareschal. ISBN: 978-2-
917490-29-7. Link for download:
https://icdsst2018.files.wordpress.co
m/2018/05/icdsst-e28093-
promethee-days-2018-book-of-
abstracts.pdf
• LNBIP 313 “Decision Support
Systems VIII – Sustainable Data-
Driven and Evidence-Based Decision
Support” (2018). Editors: Fatima
Dargam, Pavlos Delias, Isabelle
Linden, and Bertrand Mareschal.
Published by Springer in Lecture
Notes in Business Information
Processing (LNBIP), volume 313.
ISBN: 978-3-319-90314-9, 2018.
Springer book Lecture Notes In
Business Information Processing
(LNBIP), (with accepted full papers).
• Special Issue in the International
Journal of Decision Support System
Technology (IJDSST).
• Special Issue in the Kybernetes.
Journal of Sustainable Agricultural
Management and Informatics
(IJSAMI).
Journal of Information and Decision
Sciences (IJIDS). Papers in this
special issue will be selected from the
relevant special session.
Events in 2019
EmC-ICDSST 2019 in
Madeira, Portugal
EmC-ICDSST 2019
(EURO Mini – International –
Conference in 2019 – EmC-ICDSST
2019 Brochure)
EmC-ICDSST 2019 is the EWG-DSS 5th
International Conference on Decision
Support System Technology, 27-29
May 2019, Madeira, Portugal
www.icdsst2019.wordpress.com
Conference Theme: “Decision
Support Systems: Main
Developments & Future Trends”
Dates: May 27th
– 29th
, 2019
Place: Madeira Island, Portugal. UMA
University of Madeira
http://www.uma.pt/
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
Conference Honorary Chairs:
Prof. José Paixão & Prof. Jean-Pierre
Brans
Conference General Chairs:
EWG-DSS Coordination Board Members
General Organizing Chairs:
Fátima Dargam, Rita Ribeiro, Ana Luisa
Respício, António Rodrigues, Jorge de
Souza, among others.
Local Organizers:
Prof. Paulo Sérgio Abreu Freitas & Prof.
Jorge Nélio Ferreira
The EURO Working Group on Decision
Support Systems invites you to
participate in the EmC-ICDSST 2019 –
the Euro International Mini Conference
on Decision Support System Technology
on “Decision Support Systems – Main
Developments & Future Trends” in the
Madeira Island, Portugal. The
Conference is hosted at the UMA
University of Madeira, during the period
of May 27th to May 29th, 2019.
Apart from deploying the 5th EWG-DSS
annual International Conference on
Decision Support System Technology,
the EmC-ICDSST 2019 event also has
the objective of celebrating the 30th
Anniversary of the EURO Working Group
of Decision Support Systems EWG-DSS,
created as a product of the ESI VI –
EURO Summer Institute on DSS, in the
Madeira Island in May 1989. Since then,
the research area in DSS has
substantially advanced and the EWG-
DSS has consolidated its importance
among the EURO Working Groups, by
currently being one of its most stable and
active groups considering its research
initiatives and activities.
Past event in Madeira: The creation of
EURO Working Group on Decision
Support Systems EWG-DSS within the
EURO Summer Institute on DSS in May
1989, with the group of participants
shown in the photo below:
The organization of the EmC-ICDSST
2019 again in Madeira aims at
recapitulating the developments of the
Decision Support Systems area in the
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that a consensus about the appropriate
steps to be taken in future DSS research
work can be established.
Check the EmC-ICDSST 2019 Program
HERE!
EmC-ICDSST 2019 Invited speakers:
1. Prof. José Manuel Pinto Paixão
Vice-Rector of the
University of Lisbon,
Portugal
Talk: Back to the
future in Madeira
island?
2. Prof. João Clímaco
Professor at
the Faculty of
Economics of
the University
of Coimbra
Talk: On Multi-Criteria DSS dedicated to
Environmental Evaluation and
Sustainability Assessment
3. Dr. Ana Isabel Barros
Principal scientist at
TNO, fellow at the
University of
Amsterdam, Institute
for Advanced Study
(IAS) and examiner
for the Dutch Police
Academy.
Talk: DSS in Complex Environments
4. Dr. Brian Davis
Lecturer (ATB) in
Computer Science
at Maynooth University
Talk: Natural
Language Processing
in the SSIX project
5. Dr. Pierluigi Vacca
3rdPLACE – Partner &
Chief Product &
Service Officer
Talk: Making “business
meaning” from bits &
bites
6. Prof. Alexis Tsoukias
CNRS research
director at
LAMSADE, PSL
University,
Universite Paris
Dauphine
Talk: Aiding to
decide and aiding to design (Decision
Aid)
7. Prof. Philip Powell
University of
Groningen,
Netherlands
Talk: 30 Years of
Decision Support:
Where did it all go
wrong, and where did
it all go right?
Conference Venue: University of
Madeira, UMA – Rectory, Colégio dos
Jesuítas – Rua dos Ferreiros 9000-082
Funchal, Madeira, PT.
More about the venue and about
Madeira can be found in the Website
www.icdsst2019.wordpress.com .
DSS Stream @EURO 2019
The EWG-DSS will part in the
organisation of the EURO 2019
Conference, the 30th European
Conference on Operational Research,
organised in Dublin, Ireland from 23 to 26
of June, 2019. The EWG-DSS organizes
a full DSS stream of "Decision Support
Systems” on the EURO 2019. The
executive board of the EWG-DSS has
selected some paper-abstracts for the
sessions within the stream Decision
Analysis, Decision Support Systems,
DEA and Performance Measurement.
The EWG-DSS sessions in EURO2019
will be chaired by Pascale Zaraté, Adiel
Almeida and some other members of the
EWG-DSS Advisory and Assistance
Boards.
https://www.euro2019dublin.com/
Sponsored Prizes
EWG-DSS Sponsored 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, Namur and Crete, the EWG-
DSS will also distribute sponsored prizes
for participants during the EmC-ICDSST
2019 in Madeira in May 2019.
The following licenses of DSS-area-
related software packages will be sorted
among the participants as prizes for best
presented papers during the ICDSST-
2019 Conference:
A REACH Innovation EU’s prize for a
Coaching Session on EU Program for
Project Proposals elaboration by
REACH-AT & GR (http://www.reach-
consultancy.at/).
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://icdsst2019.wordpress.com/sponsors/
The photo shows the distribution of
REACH’s prize during the ICDSST 2018
in Crete. Our Coordinator Fatima
Dargam (above, right) awarded the lucky
winner of REACH Innovation EU’s prize
for a Coaching Session on EU Program
for Project Proposals to Thiago

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Nepomuceno, a PhD student of the
UFPE Federal University of
Pernambuco, Production Engineering
Department, in Brazil. In 2019 the same
prize will also be offered by REACH
(www-reach-consultancy.eu) during the
EmC-ICDSST 2019. You could will be
the next winner!
EWG-DSS Events in
2020
ICDSST 2020
The EWG-DSS 6th International
Conference on Decision Support
System Technology, 27-29 May 2020,
Zaragoza, Spain
Place: Zaragoza, Spain, University of
Zaragoza, https://www.unizar.es/
Local Chair: Prof. José María Moreno
Jiménez
https://i3a.unizar.es/en/investigadores/jo
se-maria-moreno-jimenez
Main Theme:
“Cognitive Decision Support Systems
& Technologies”
Conference Web-Site:
https://icdsst2020.wordpress.com
The role that the human factor will play in
the future of DSS and the technologies
required to respond to the new
challenges and demands of the
Knowledge Society will be the main aim
of this Conference.
The EURO Working Group on Decision
Support Systems invites you to
participate in the ICDSST 2020
International Conference on Decision
Support System Technology on
Cognitive Decision Support Systems &
Technologies in Zaragoza, Spain. The
Conference will be hosted at the Faculty
of Economics and Business of the
University of Zaragoza, during the period
of May 27th to May 29th, 2020.
Following on from the issues considered
at ICDSST2019 (Decision Support
Systems – Main Developments and
Future Trends), ICDSST2020 will
consider the role that the human factor
will play in the future of DSS and the
technologies (tools and knowledge)
required to respond to the new
challenges and demands of the
Knowledge Society.
The Knowledge Society can be defined
as a space for the talent, imagination and
creativity of human beings. It has two
fundamental characteristics: the
development of Information and
Communications Technologies (ICTs)
and the relevance of the human factor.
Information technologies focus on the
utilisation of large scale databases in
order to identify patterns of behaviour
and create tools that can exploit them.
Communication technologies support the
interaction and collaboration of the
actors that participate in the resolution of
problems.
The human factor is a key element of the
Knowledge Society and when we speak
of its ‘relevance’ we refer to its influence
in the consideration of a ‘new’ scientific
method that allows decisional processes
to incorporate the subjective, intangible
and emotional aspects, associated with
the human factor, in conjunction with the
objective, tangible and rational aspects
that are associated with traditional
scientific methodology.
As with other living systems, the life
process of the human being is a cognitive
process; only species that learn and
adapt to their context are able to survive.
This is why traditional scientific
methodology must be adapted to the
new cognitive orientation inherent in the
Knowledge Society. The cognitive
orientation focuses on the continuous
training and learning of individuals (and
the systems in which they are immersed)
in the key aspect of being human: the
ability to make decisions.
The scientific support for this new
orientation must be through the
development of technologies (tools and
knowledge) that facilitate continuous
training, in other words, the extraction
and diffusion of the knowledge derived
from the scientific resolution of problems;
linking this knowledge to the arguments
that support the different positions and
decisions and to the technologies utilised
for extraction and diffusion.
In addition to the consideration of the
more traditional issues of our field, the
ICDSST2020, under the title of
“Cognitive Decision Support Systems
and Technologies”, will concentrate on
the development of technologies (tools
and knowledge) that support the
relevance of the human factor and the
cognitive orientation in decision making.
ICDSST 2020 Target Participants:
The ICDSST 2020 – PROMETHEE
DAYS 2020 welcomes participants from
a wide range of background around the
world, including scholars, researchers,
developers, specialists, practitioners and
other professionals, as well as Master
and PhD students, who are interested in
the decision making and decision
support related areas, such as DSS
methodologies and technologies as well
as application-oriented solutions.
More details about the ICDSST 2020
Conference will be constanly updated on
conference homepage. Check it!
https://icdsst2020.wordpress.com/
Other Events
25th
Americas Conference on
Information Systems. AMCIS 2019:
New frontiers in digital convergence.
Cancun, Mexico, August 14-18, 2019.
Digital convergence is what enables
individuals interact, communicate,
collaborate and share information in
many new and different ways. Yet, it has
tended to focus on the ability to combine
technical components and features such
as voice, texts, video, pictures,
broadcasts, presentation, streaming
media, global connectivity and
personalized services. Its new frontier—
yet to be fully imagined—the capacity to
blur socio-technical boundaries, such as
those between the real and online world,
producers and consumers, humans and
machines, inter- and intra-firms, as well
as between develop and emerging
economies. This conference theme
reflects the desire to strengthen and
build consensus in existing research
streams, while also taking on theoretical
and methodological challenges while
exploring emerging convergence
opportunities.
For more details, please visit the
homepage:
https://amcis2019.aisconferences.org/
European Conference on Information
Systems (ECIS) 2019. Information
systems for a sharing society. June 8
– 14 2019 / Stockholm and Uppsala,
Sweden
A Sharing Society enables the advanced
development of digital information
technologies. Governments,
organizations, and individuals have
gained new capabilities and
opportunities for sharing data,

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information, and knowledge in the world
gone digital. The sharing activities bring
the new possibility for governments to
build an eco-social system for meeting
citizens' essential needs; these create
new waves of competition among
businesses for creating new digital
business designs and ways to manage
customer relationships; these also
enhance people's power in controlling
their lives in the digital society. However,
a Sharing Society triggers emerging
challenges and issues that need to be
adequately addressed, such as privacy
and the digital divide. The continuous
evolution of a Sharing Society
significantly influences the efficient and
effective use of information systems and
advanced digital technologies. These are
important to study from multiple
perspectives.
ECIS 2019 will be a meeting platform for
European and international researchers
in the field of Information Systems to
discuss and debate this sharing
phenomenon. We envisage studies that
reflect upon and provide innovative
solutions that contribute to the
sustainable development of the sharing
society.
homepage: http://ecis2019.eu/
PACIS 2019. Pasific Asia Conference
on Information Systems. July 8-12,
2019. Xi’an, China.
Pacific Asia Conference on Information
Systems (PACIS 2019) will be held at
Xi’an, China, after the successful series
of PACIS since 1993. PACIS is the main
international Information Systems (IS)
conference and the only AIS sponsored
conference in the Pacific Asia Region.
The primary purpose of PACIS is to
enable regional and international
Information Systems researchers and
practitioners to meet in an annual forum
that maximizes the opportunity for the
exchange of information. The world’s
Information Systems industry and
research specialists, and academia are
cordially invited to participate in a wealth
of presentation, tutorials, special
sessions and social activities for the
advancement of Information Systems
and Management.
homepage: http://pacis2019.org/
The 19th International Conference on
Computational Science and its
Applications. Saint Petersburg
University, Saint Petersburg, Russia
July 1-4 2019
ICCSA 2019 will be the next event in a
series of highly successful International
Conferences on Computational Science
and Its Applications (ICCSA), previously
held in Melbourne, Australia (2018),
Trieste, Italy (2017), Beijing. China
(2016), Banff, Canada (2015),
Guimaraes, Portugal (2014), Ho Chi
Minh City, Vietnam (2013), Salvador de
Bahia, Brazil (2012), Santander, Spain
(2011), Fukuoka, Japan (2010), Suwon,
Korea (2009), Perugia, Italy (2008),
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2007),
Glasgow, UK (2006), Singapore (2005),
Assisi, Italy (2004), Montreal, Canada
(2003), and (as ICCS) in Amsterdam,
The Netherlands (2002) and San
Francisco, USA (2001). 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.
homepage: http://www.iccsa.org/
The 6th IEEE International Conference
on Data Science and Advanced
Analytics 5–8 October 2019
Washington DC — USA.
The IEEE International Conference on
Data Science and Advanced Analytics
(DSAA) aims to be the flagship annual
meeting spanning the interdisciplinary
field of Data Science. DSAA focuses on
the science of data, as well as the
implications of the science for
applications to industry, government,
and society. From the science side,
DSAA spans all of the component fields
of data science, including statistics,
probabilistic and mathematical modeling,
machine learning, data mining and
knowledge discovery, complexity
science, network science, business
analytics, data management,
infrastructure and storage, retrieval and
search, security, privacy and ethics.
From the applications side, DSAA aims
both to show researchers important
problems and issues that are revealed by
real applications, and to show
practitioners and users how the science
can be applied to realize value. DSAA is
intended to reflect the interdisciplinary
and cross-domain nature of data science
and analytics, as an alternative to the
highly specialized disciplinary
conferences.
Founded in 2014, DSAA conferences
have been jointly technically sponsored
by IEEE (through CIS), America
Statistical Association (ASA) and ACM
(via SIGKDD). DSAA features its strong
interdisciplinary synergy between
statistics, computing science,
information/intelligence sciences, and
cross-domain collaborations between
academia and business, for data science
and analytics trends, research,
applications and emerging areas.
DSAA sets up a high standard for its
organizing committee, keynote
speeches, submissions to main
conference and special sessions, and a
competitive rate for paper acceptance.
DSAA papers are published by IEEE and
EI-indexed through IEEE Xplore.
Selected papers are published as journal
extensions by International Journal of
Data Science and Analytics.
DSAA’2019 in Washington DC, US, is
the 6th annual installment of the
conference, this year is expected to bring
strong synergy between industry,
government and broad academic
communities, an Industry Day will
continue its great success in DSAA’2018
in Turin.
homepage: http://dsaa2019.dsaa.co/
1st iEMSs Regional Conference,
Nanjing, China, May 18-20 2019
Nanjing Normal University is excited to
host the 1st Regional Conference on
Environmental Modeling and Software
May 18-20, 2019 in Nanjing, Jiangsu,
China. This conference is the 1st official
regional conference of International
Environmental Modelling and Software
Society (iEMSs), after 9th worldwide
conference since 2002. This Conference
is themed “Modelling for Environmental
Sustainability: Asia’s Next Great
Challenge” with an objective to foster the
exchange of ideas and solutions leading
to methods and techniques for managing
these systems effectively and efficiently..
homepage:

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http://geomodeling.njnu.edu.cn/iEMSsR
egionu/
49th Annual Conference of the Italian
Operations Research Society.
Genova, Italy, September 4-7, 2019.
The International Conference on
Optimization and Decision Science is
organized by AIRO, Italian Operations
Research Society, DIEC (Dept. of
Economics and Business Studies),
DIBRIS (Dept. of Informatics,
Bioengineering, Robotics, and Systems
Engineering) and DIMA (Departments of
Mathematics) of the University of Genoa.
homepage:
http://www.airoconference.it/ods2019/
The 6th International Embedded
Systems Symposium. Sponsored by
IFIP WG 10.2. 9-11 September 2019 in
Friedrichshafen, Germany.
Over recent years, embedded systems
have gained an enormous amount of
processing power and functionality.
Many of the formerly external
components can now be integrated into
a single System-on-Chip. This tendency
has resulted in a dramatic reduction in
the size and cost of embedded systems.
As a unique technology, the design of
embedded systems is an essential
element of many innovations.
Embedded systems meet their
performance goals, including real-time
constraints, through a combination of
special-purpose hardware and software
components tailored to the system
requirements. Both the development of
new features and the reuse of existing
intellectual property components are
essential to keeping up with ever
demanding customer requirements.
Furthermore, design complexities are
steadily growing with an increasing
number of components that have to
cooperate properly. Embedded system
designers have to cope with multiple
goals and constraints simultaneously,
including timing, power, reliability,
dependability, maintenance, packaging
and, last but not least, price. The
significance of these constraints varies
depending on the application area a
system is targeted for. Typical
embedded applications include multi-
media, automotive, medical, and
communication devices.
The goals of the International Embedded
Systems Symposium are to present
exchange and discuss the state of the
art, novel ideas, actual research results,
and future trends in the field of
embedded systems. Contributors and
participants from both industry and
academia are encouraged to take active
part in this symposium.
homepage: http://www.iess.org/
____________________
EWGDSS
The Collab-Net Project
Version 5: Online
Platform needs your
support!
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, the project is in its Version 5
and the online version has been
developed 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 short paper will be
presented in the EmC-ICDSST 2019
Conference in Madeira. And can be
downloaded here:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=12Kzh
RnUKZ3OAJAg3-_ghH3Z44uDhDanh
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
Since 2016, Fátima Dargam, founding
member of the EWG-DSS and member
of the Coordination Board, has started 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.
REACH Innovation Consultancy EU
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

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REACH is one of the sponsors of the
EmC-ICDSST 2019 in Madeira. 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 2019
Conference and be a candidate for
REACH's prize!
In January 2019, REACH Innovation EU
was very proud to announce the opening
of a subsidiary-branch in Athens,
Greece. The new office brings an
expansion of the work effort in Europe,
enhancing the profile for participation in
international projects and gaining better
local representation in Greek and EU
project opportunities. A very warm
welcome to the new members of
REACH-Greece (https://www.reach-
consultancy.gr/) in the REACH
Innovation family!
REACH Innovation EU & GR Online -
Connect with us:
Twitter: REACH Innovation EU-GR
LinkedIn: REACH Innovation EU-GR
Skype Name:
reach.consultancy.greece
Email: info@reach-consultancy.gr
URLl: www.reach-consultancy.gr
Other Announcements
Experience & Competence
EWG-DSS Members - Institutions
Research & 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.
For more details about this, check:
https://ewgdss.wordpress.com/experien
ce-competence/ .
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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The EWG-DSS follows the current
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protection.
Your personal data will only be used by
the EWG-DSS for the purposes identified
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