EmC-ICDSST 2019 & Celebration of 30 Years of the EWG-DSS EURO Working Group on Decision Support Systems Your Participation is a MUST! See you in Madeira! E-mail: ewg-dss@fccdp.com EWG-DSS EURO Homepage - EWG-DSS Blog EWG-DSS LinkedIn – EWG-DSS IRIT Server – EWG-DSS Twitter @EWGDSS

EmC-ICDSST 2019 – Call for Papers & Participation www.icdsst2019.wordpress.com

5th International Conference on Decision Support System Technology & EURO Mini Conference

27-29 May 2019, Madeira, Portugal

Main Theme: “Decision Support Systems: Main Developments & Future Trends”

A look backwards over the last 30 years to evaluate how well we stand on the research areas of

Decision Making and in which direction we should better proceed.

EmC-ICDSST 2019 Venue: University of Madeira, Madeira, Portugal - UMA-Rectory Colégio dos Jesuítas – Rua dos Ferreiros 9000-082 Funchal, Madeira

Conference Honorary Chairs: Prof. José Paixão & Prof. Jean-Pierre Brans Conference General Chairs: EWG-DSS Coordination Board Members Organizing Team: Fátima Dargam, Rita Ribeiro, Ana Luisa Respício, António Rodrigues, Jorge de Souza, among other EWG-DSS members Local Organizers: Prof. Paulo Sérgio Abreu Freitas & Prof. Jorge Nélio Ferreira

EURO (the Association of European Operational Research Societies) and its Working Group on Decision

Support Systems (EWG-DSS) invites you to participate in the EmC-ICDSST 2019 EURO Mini International

Conference on Decision Support System Technology on “Decision Support Systems – Main Developments &

Future Trends” in the Madeira Island, Portugal. The Conference will be hosted at the UMA University of

Madeira, during the period of May 27th to May 29th, 2019.

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.

The organization of the EmC-ICDSST 2019 in Madeira aims at recapitulating the developments of the Decision

Support Systems area in the last 30 years, as well as enforcing the trends and new technologies in use, so that

a consensus about the appropriate steps to be taken in future DSS research work can be established.

EmC-ICDSST 2019 & Celebration of 30 Years of the EWG-DSS EURO Working Group on Decision Support Systems Your Participation is a MUST! See you in Madeira! E-mail: ewg-dss@fccdp.com EWG-DSS EURO Homepage - EWG-DSS Blog EWG-DSS LinkedIn – EWG-DSS IRIT Server – EWG-DSS Twitter @EWGDSS

The Organizing Committee of the EmC-ICDSST 2019 invites researchers, developers and specialists in the related areas of

decision making, including its methodologies and technologies, as well as application oriented practitioners directed to

the implementation of solutions for DSS challenges to submit their work to the EmC-ICDSST 2019.

Contributions: We encourage submissions addressing (among others) the suggested topics listed below. Authors are

requested to submit full papers, short papers or posters. Full papers should be 11-13 pages long using LNBIP template

from Springer by following “Instructions for Authors”. The Latex version of the LNBIP template can be downloaded from

here, while the MS Word version of the LNBIP template can be downloaded from here. Short papers should have up to 6

pages and should use the Short-Paper EmC-ICDSST 2019 Template. Posters should use the Poster EmC-ICDSST 2019

Template. Accepted submissions will either be published in the Springer LNBIP Book (long papers) or in the EmC-ICDSST

2019 Conference Proceedings (short papers and posters). All Templates can be found in the EmC-ICDSST2019 Homepage

CfP page: https://icdsst2019.wordpress.com/call-for-papers/. All papers and posters should be submitted to the EmC-

ICDSST 2019 via the following EasyChair account: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icdsst2019.

EmC-ICDSST 2019 Publications: As in previous EWG-DSS ICDSST Conferences, accepted papers may be published through

various means, including the conference proceedings, Springer book series – Lecture Notes in Business Information

Processing (LNBIP), Special Issues in DSS related journals, including the International Journal of Decision Support System

Technology (IJDSST), the official partner Journal of the ICDSST conferences, and the Computer Science and Information

Systems Journal COMSIS. Proceedings of the EmC-ICDSST 2019 on “Decision Support Systems – Main Developments &

Future Trends” (containing abstracts of all accepted papers, with an ISBN number) will be Guest Edited at UMA. Details

about the EmC-ICDSST2019 Publications and Guest-Editors will be updated in the Conference Homepage. Link:

https://icdsst2019.wordpress.com/call-for-papers/publications/.

EmC-ICDSST 2019 Suggested Paper Topics (but not limited to): Deadlines for Submission:

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

Full Papers: Submission: 15 December 2018 (Extended Deadline!) Notification of acceptance: 15.02.2019 Camera ready version: 28 Feb. 2019 Short Papers: Submission: 01 March 2019 Notification of acceptance: 10.04.2019 Camera ready version: 20 April 2019 Posters: Submission: 15 March 2019 Notification of acceptance: 10.04.2019 Camera ready version: 20 April 2019

In order to enforce the 30 Years Celebration of the EURO Working Group of Decision Support Systems, all EWG-DSS

founding members and senior Collaborators from other EURO WGs and DSS Communities, who have consistently

contributed to the research in the DSS area in the last years, are highly encouraged and invited to submit their

contributions and participate in the conference. For further information contact the EWG-DSS: ewg-dss@fccdp.com.

Looking forward to seeing you in Madeira in 2019! Come and Celebrate with us!