DR FAacuteTIMA DARGAM BIOGRAPHY

April 2016

Faacutetima Dargam is a senior IT professional at SimTech Simulation Technology and Coordinator of the EURO Working Group on Decision Support Systems (EWG-DSS) She joined SimTech in 1995 where she works on research projects and development of application software modules supporting computer-based simulation She holds a PhD in Computer Sciences (Logic and Automated Reasoning) from the Department of Computing at Imperial College London (1996) She also holds a Master degree in Artificial Intelligence from Instituto Militar de Engenharia (IME) Rio de Janeiro (1989) an Engineering degree in Electronics from Santa Ursula University (USU) in Rio de Janeiro (1983) and a Bachelors degree (BA) in English (Teaching Didactics amp Literature) from USU Rio de Janeiro (1983) Fatima Dargam is a founding member of the EURO Working Group on Decision Support Systems (EWG-DSS) since 1989 and since

2007 she integrates its Coordination Board (httpewgdsswordpresscom) She also cooperates as senior research consultant with the Institute of Logic Philosophy and Theory of Science ndash ILTC in Rio de Janeiro Brazil since 1988 She was head of the Computer Graphics Division of the Informatics Group in the Brazilian Naval Research Institute (IPqM) in Rio de Janeiro (1983-1990) During this period she worked with CAE-CAD-CAM systems for electrical applications and also on research and development of Expert Systems and Decision Support Systems Fatimarsquos research interests reside mainly in the development of intelligent distributed and cooperative web-based decision support systems for various applications bridging the areas of knowledge management and decision making Other topics of her interest include decision analysis big data data analytics for decision making social networks ontology belief revision and updates knowledge representation non-monotonic reasoning multi-agent systems expert systems as well as multi-criteria decision making and dynamic systems She is Associate Editor of the IJDSST International Journal of Decision Support Systems Technology and belongs to the Editorial Board of Journals in the area of Decision Support Systems like IJDSS IJDSST and IJASCA She acts as referee for several IT OR and DSS Conferences and Journals like DSSElsevier JDS EJOR CEJOR ITOR GRUP IJIDS EJDP IJITDM IJDSST IJASCA JKMEIT among others As independent expert for the EC European Commission since 2012 she has been involved in the assessment evaluation and review of several large-scale research amp innovation projects within FP7 and Horizon2020 ICT-related domains Selected publications of Faacutetima Dargam can be found in her ResearchGate account (wwwresearchgatenetprofileFatima_Dargam) as well as in her private homepage (wwwfccdpcomPublicationshtm)

Dr Faacutetima Dargam E-Mail FDargamSimTechnologycom SimTech Simulation Technology - Address Riesstr 120 A-8010 Graz Austria URL httpwwwsimtechnologycom - URL (private) httpwwwfccdpcom Phone+43(0)316 38627845 - Mobile +43(0)316 3862789 - Skype fatimadargam