Decision Support Systems. Theory and Practice (DSS 2008)

FOURTH REMOTELY-ORGANIZED SCIENTIFIC-PRACTICAL CONFERENCE WITH INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPATION

Decision Support Systems. Theory and Practice (DSS’2008) 
June 9, 2008, Kiev, Ukraine

ORGANIZERS:

Academy of Technological Sciences of Ukraine

National Academy of Sciences (NAS) of Ukraine

Institute of Mathematical Machines and Systems, NAS Ukraine

Inter-regional public organization "Women in Science and Education" (Russia)

Ukrainian Center of Ecological and Water Projects, ATS Ukraine

CONFERENCE OBJECTIVES:
Exchanging and sharing experience on scientific research and organizational activity concerning

Modern Trends of Information Support for:

Crisis Relief Centers
Governmental Institutions
Welfare and Education

MAIN TOPICS:

1. DSS Foundations:
- DSS principles, concepts, and theories;
- frameworks;
- formal languages, and methods for DSS research;
- assessments of the DSS field.
2. DSS Development-Functionality:
- methods, tools, and techniques for developing the underlying functional aspects of a DSS;
- solver/model management;
- rule management and AI in DSSs;
- administrations.
3. DSS Development-Interfaces:
- methods, tools, and techniques for developing the overt user interface of a DSS;
- managing linguistic and cognituvity;
- DSS help facilities.
4. Situation centers:
- architecture;
- roles of users and personnel;
- applied technologies;
- procedural (regulation) aspects of functioning;
- support of decision making at a higher state level (managing
society), in economy, medicine, negotiations, etc.
5. Specialized DSS:
- DSS classification;
- CVISCS centers;
- DSS on economics, heals area etc.
6. DSS Impacts and Evaluation:
- DSS economics;

- DSS impacts on individual users, multiparticipant
users, organizations, and societies;
- evaluating/justifying DSSs.
7. Distributed decision making:
- creating, assessing, sharing, retrieving, filtering and
interpreting knowledge in distributed decision making;
- using the web for enhancing decisions;
- decision and business integration on the web (ERP,
Supply Chain Management, etc.);
- decision making for e-Business strategies.
8. Managing data & knowledge in a DSS:
- electronic documentation workflow;
- user knowledge presentation;
- managing user knowledge;
- representing and using know-how for decision making;
- presentation and use of now-how for making a decision.
9. DSS Experiences & Education:
- experiences in developing or operating DSSs;
- systems solutions to specific decision support needs;
- approaches to managing DSSs;
- DSS instruction/training approaches;
- decision training systems.
10. DSS Reference Studies:
- reference discipline tutorials for DSS researchers;
- emerging technologies relevant to DSS characteristics
or DSS development;
- related studies on such topics as communication
support systems, computer supported cooperative work, research support systems, task support systems

DEADLINES:
May 10: Participation request
May 15: Paper submission & conference fee payment
June 9: Papers publication on the conference site; beginning remote discussions
August 1: End of remote discussions
August-September: Snail mailing of the Conference Proceedings

OFFICIAL LANGUAGES: Ukrainian, Russian, English

tel. (38044) 5261369, fax: (38044) 5266181; e-mail: conf@immsp.kiev.ua

Site of last conference DSS http://conference.immsp.kiev.ua

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