EWG-DSS Thessaloniki Workshop – Feedback

The EWG-DSS Thessaloniki-2013 Workshop on “Exploring New Directions for Decisions in the Internet Age” , during the period of May 29-31,2013, was a great success!

We wish to express here our deep gratitude to Jason Papathanasiou and the University of Macedonia, for their great job in locally organizing this event in Greece. We are extremely grateful to all the local arrangements and help received from him and his Team. Many Thanks!

We had 27 research contributions/presentations, 5 special talks and 2 web-seminars. We would like to acknowledge the interest and cooperation of all the authors who submitted their finished and on-going research work for presentation in this workshop.  All presentations were very interesting and there was a high level of information exchange for further fruitful cooperation among all participants.

The digital version of the Workshop Proceedings can be downloaded via the link: EWG-DSS Thessaloniki-2013 Digital Proceedings.
https://ewgdssthessaloniki2013.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/ewg-dss_thessaloniki_2013_proceedings.pdf

The Workshop Photos can be seen and downloaded via the link:
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0BzymY7K6g3F_Y3BHOWx3VkVKWjA&usp=sharing

It was very nice being in Thessaloniki and meeting you all!

Some of the presentation slideshows will also be placed at the Workshop Homepage soon.

Workshop Participants and Authors: Please do not forget to submit your finalized final papers to the Workshop Journal Special Issues.
See CfP here. (Link:  https://ewgdssthessaloniki2013.wordpress.com/publications/ )

The 2 next meetings this year of our group will take place i:

• Rome, in the EWG-DSS DSS Stream of the EURO-INFORMS 2013 Conference, during the period of July 1-4, 2013. In this Conference the EWG-DSS DSS stream will have 7 Sessions, namely:
  
  • Applications in Decision Making & Decision Analysis
  • Knowledge Management & Decision Systems
  • Knowledge Management & Decision Making
  • Decision Support, Policy-making & Decision Analysis
  • Collaborative Decision Making
  • Decision-Making using Social Networks  and Web Resources     
  • Decision Support for Network Processes &  Supply Chain Management. EURO-INFORMS 2013 Conference Homepage: http://euro2013.org/
    

• and in Graz, Austria, within the EURO Mini-Conference on “Collaborative Decision Systems in Economics and in Complex Societal and Environmental Applications” , during the period of  October 17th-19th, 2013 at the the Institute of Statistics and Operations Research of the Karl-Franzens Universität Graz. This EURO Mini Conference is jointly organised by the EURO Working Groups on Decision Support Systems (EWG-DSS); Experimental Economics (EWG E-CUBE), the EURO Working Group on Methodology for Complex Societal Problems (MCSP) and the EURO Working Group on OR in Agriculture and Forest Management (ORAFM). We encourage you to submit your work to this Mini-Conference and participate! (Deadline for Submissions:20/07/2013)
  More information about this event can be found in the link:
  EURO Mini-Conference Graz-2013 Homepage
  (Link: http://eurominiconferencegraz2013.wordpress.com/)

Thessaloniki was Great!
Now we are looking forwards to meeting you in Rome and in Graz!

Best regards,
The EWG-DSS Coordinators

EWG-DSS Thessaloniki-2013 Workshop

May 29th – May 31st, 2013

Workshop’s Theme:
“Exploring New Directions for Decisions in the Internet Age”

EXTENDED Deadline for Papers’ Submission: 14/04/2013

Dear Members of the EWG-DSS,  Dear Colleagues!

The EURO Working Group on Decision Support Systems invites you to participate in  the  EWG-DSS Thessaloniki-2013 Workshop on “Exploring New Directions for Decisions in the Internet Age”, which will be hosted at the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki, Greece, in cooperation with its Department of Marketing and Operations Management, during the period of May 29^th to  31^st, 2013.

The EWG-DSS Thessaloniki-2013 Workshop on “Exploring New Directions for Decisions in the Internet Age” will particularly focus on the advances on research in the field of Decision Sciences, for meeting the challenges of paradigm shift in decision making and decision support brought by recent developments of Web 2.0 and 3.0 technologies.  Specifically, the workshop will develop a research agenda that identifies the key issues and challenges, and explores new approaches and tools for future collaborative decision making, including using social networks and Web resources, dynamic spatial-temporal decision making, and technical and social aspects of web-based decision processes.

Members of the EWG-DSS working group are expected to participate and to encourage the participation of other related professionals in this Workshop on “Exploring New Directions for Decisions in the Internet Age”, so that further collaboration can be promoted on a larger scale.

Proposals for panels or demo presentations and special sessions are very welcome.

As in previous years, Special Issues of International Journals will be published with selected papers presented during the “EWG-DSS Thessaloniki-2013 Workshop”.

The EWG-DSS Coordination Board is very grateful to the support received by Dr. Jason Papathanasiou, member of the EWG-DSS and Lecturer at the Dept. of Marketing and Operations Management of the University of Macedonia,  in organizing this meeting in the Thessaloniki.

Details about the Participation, Program and Registration of this Workshop can be found in this web-site ( follow the links: About, Call for Papers, Program, Program Committee, Registration). If you need any further information, please contact us via e-mail: ewg-dss@fccdp.com .

We thank you in advance for your participation interest.
We hope to see you in Thessaloniki!

The EWG-DSS Coordination Board