Call for Papers

EWG-DSS London-2011

Call for Participation

(pdf File) EWG-DSS_London-2011_Call_for_Participation EXTENDED

The EURO Working Group on Decision Support Systems (EWG-DSS), in cooperation with Birbeck University of London, invites you to participate on the “EWG-DSS London-2011 Workshop” on Decision Systems period of June 23^rd to June 24^th, 2011.

The purpose of this Workshop is to provide an informal setting in which the participants, professionals of the research and application areas related to Decision Making and Decision Support, will have the opportunity to discuss technical, methodological and social aspects for developing DSSs.

The members of the EWG-DSS are expected to participate and to encourage the participation of other related professionals, so that further collaboration can be promoted on a larger scale during the workshop. The workshop will also embed a business meeting of the Euro Working Group on DSS at its last session.

The “EWG-DSS London-2011” Workshop will take place at the School of Business, Economics and Informatics, at Birkbeck, University of London (Malet Street, Bloomsbury London WC1E 7HX, UK). Birbeck is located in the heart of central London, near the British Museum and very easy to be reached by all public means of transportation.

Call for Papers

The “EWG-DSS London-2011” Workshop accepts submission of papers,  addressing topics in research and application of Decision Systems in the form of:

• Abstracts;
• Short/Extended Abstracts; or
• Full Papers.

Submissions may include, among others, the following topics:

- Group Support Systems / Distributed / Collaborative Decision Making
- Methods, Languages and Tools to support Decision Making
- Web 2.0 Systems for Decision Support & Globalisation Context
- Spatial-temporal Decision Support Systems
- Knowledge Management & Decision Support Systems
- Knowledge and Resource Discovery & Decision making
- Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing
- Negotiation Support Systems

Proposals for panel or demo presentations in special sessions are very welcome.

Contributions: Authors are requested to submit either Abstracts (1 page), Short Papers (4/6 A4 pages) or Full Papers (~ 12 A4 pages) in electronic form (MS-Word and PDF) to the email: ewg-dss@fccdp.com up to 18/04/2011 09/05/2011 using the Templates given below for download (Word “doc” format).

Templates to download:
EWG-DSS_Extended Abstract Template
EWG-DSS_Short or Full PaperTemplate

Workshop Proceedings: Only the Abstracts  of the submitted work (first page of full papers or first page of extended abstracts) will be published in the Workshop Proceedings (Book of Abstracts).  However, all submissions (abstracts, full papers, etc) will be distributed in an data-CD of the Workshop, which will also include the “List of Participants” and the pdf file of the “Book of Abstracts”.

Workshop Important Dates (DEADLINE EXTENDED!!):
Submission of Papers & Abstracts: up to 18/04/2011,   up to 09/05/2011
Notification of Acceptance: 30/04/2011,  23/05/2011
Registration Deadline: 30/05/2011, up to 06/06/2011
Workshop: 23-24/06/2011

Workshop Publications

As in previous years, Special Issues of DSS Journals will be published with selected papers presented during the “EWG-DSS London-2011 Workshop”.

The following Publications are planned for the “EWG-DSS London-2011 Workshop”:

• Proceedings of the “EWG-DSS London-2011 Workshop” (Book of Abstracts), published in time for distribution to the workshop participants. Editors: Fatima Dargam, Boris Delibasic, Jorge E. Hernández, Shaofeng Liu, Rita Ribeiro, Pascale Zaraté.

• Special Issue on “Networking Decision Making & Negotiation“ of the IJDSST – International Journal of Decision Support Systems Technology, IGI Global Publisher. This publication will consist of thoroughly revised  full papers selected from the presented submissions of the “EWG-DSS London-2011 Workshop”. Guest Editors: Fatima Dargam, Boris Delibasic, Jorge E. Hernández, Shaofeng Liu.

• Special Issue on “Collaborative Decision Support Systems“ of the of the IJIDS – International Journal of Information and Decision Sciences, InderScience Publishers. This publication will consist of thoroughly revised  full papers selected from the presented submissions of the “EWG-DSS London-2011 Workshop”. Guest Editors: Jason Papathanasiou, Shaofeng Liu, Pascale Zaraté.

• Book of Post-Proceedings of the Springer Series LNBIP – Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, Springer Publisher. This publication will consist of thoroughly revised and extended full papers selected from the “EWG-DSS London-2011 Workshop” in June 2011 and from the “EWG-DSS Paris-2011 Workshop” to be held in November 2011, in Paris. Guest Editors: Jorge E. Hernández, Pascale Zaraté, Fatima Dargam, Boris Delibasic, Shaofeng Liu, Rita Ribeiro.

Submissions to the Journal Special Issues:

Authors of submitted Abstracts, Short/Extended Abstracts or Full Papers to the EWG-DSS London-2011 Workshop are encouraged to publish their final work (full paper) in one of the Special Issues described above.

The presentation of the research work in the EWG-DSS London-2011 Workshop will provide authors with the constructive feedback they need to finalize their full papers for the Journal Submissions.

We expect the authors to express, via e-mail (as indicated in Special Issue Call for Papers), their intention of submission for either IJDSST or IJIDS Special Issue up to May 18th, 2011. Otherwise, authors will be contacted by the Special Issues guest editors during the workshop, with an invitation for submission. All submitted papers will be reviewed on a double-blind, peer review basis, by the journals’ ad-hoc reviewers.

Please visit the workshop page http://londonewgdss2011.wordpress.com/call-for-papers/templates/ for further information about the Special Issues Call for Papers.

Submissions to the LNBIP Springer Book:

The LNBIP Book of the Springer Series Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing will be published as a Post-Proceedings of selected originally presented research work of the two 2011 EWG-DSS Workshops: the “EWG-DSS London-2011 Workshop” in June 2011; and the “EWG-DSS Paris-2011 Workshop” to be held in November 2011, in Paris.

During both EWG-DSS Workshops, the LNBIP Springer Book guest editors will selectively invite participants/authors to submit high quality extended full papers to this publication. All papers will be thoroughly revised on a peer review basis.

More information about this LNBIP Springer Book publication will be given to the participants of the EWG-DSS London-2011 Workshop, during the event in London. Further information about it will also be published in the EWG-DSS Web Platforms in due course.

Further Participation Details:

Please visit the workshop pages http://londonewgdss2011.wordpress.com/registration/ for registration; and http://londonewgdss2011.wordpress.com/workshop-program/ for further information about the workshop program.

We are looking forwards to meeting you in London!

The EWG-DSS Coordination Board

http://ewgdss.wordpress.com/coordinators/