Montreal, December 8, 2007 -- The AIS SIG DSS workshop will take place at the Salle des Boiseries room J-2805 located at the University of Quebec at Montreal's (UQAM's) Campus. It is accessible underground directly from the metro station Berri-UQAM or, from 405, rue Sainte-Catherine East the street level. Problems call Jacques Ajenstat, Workshop General Chair, 514-777-8183.

Pre-ICIS SIG DSS Workshop 2007

“Decision Support for Extreme Events: Learning from Success and Failure” Salle des boiseries,R-2805 UQAM, Montreal, Sunday, December 9, 2007

9:00 Welcoming Remarks –David Paradice, Program Chair FSU , USA and Jacques Ajenstat ,General Chair , UQAM , Canada

9:15 – 10:00 Keynote Speaker – Dr. Murray Turoff

Dynamic Emergency Response Management for Large Scale Decision Making in Extreme Hazardous Events” Murray Turoff , Connie White , Linda Plotnick , NJIT UniversityHeights , Newark NJ USA

10:00 – 12:15 Session 1 – Extreme Event Foundation and Infrastructure Issues

“An Activity Theory Framework for DSS for Extreme Events: With a Hurricane Example”, D. O’Leary University of Southern California (USC) ,USA.

“Organizational Coordination in Extreme Events: A Case Study of October 2006 Snowstorm in Western New York”, R. Chen, R. Sharman, H.R. Rao, and S. Upadhyaya, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA.

An Application of Innovation Diffusion to Supply Chain Contingency Planning Decisions”, J. Skipper and D. Hall, Auburn University, USA

The Application of Gaming to understand the Decision-making of Self-Directed teams in Volatile Environments ,Helen Hasan; Kate Crawford, Information Systems, Faculty of Commerce, University of Wollongong, Australia

12 :15 – 13:15 Lunch –

13:15 - 15:00 Session 2 – Studies of the Human Element in Extreme Events

“Persuasion Via Voice and text Communication Technologies: Implications for the Use in Extreme Environments”, M. Chaung and F. Tabak, Towson University, USA

“The Effects of Motivational Disposition on Alternative Solution Selection During Extreme Events”, J. Drake, D. Hall, and T. Lang, Auburn University, USA.

“Perceived Information Overload and Decision-Quality: The Role of Mindfulness”, B. Singh and G. Bansal, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, USA.

15:00 – 15:15 Break

15:15 – 16:45 Session 3 – Practical exploratory essays (extended summaries)

“Mobilizing Emergency Content: From Source to Use”, Albert Simard, Director, Knowledge Strategies, Natural Resources Canada.

“Objectives Alignment and Extreme Events: using OVAR a balanced scorecard Methodology”, Daniel Michel ,Emeritus Professor, HEC School of Business, PARIS ,Patrick Lutgé, Président, Atpiware , France.

Ontology commitment as a coping mechanism in emergency situations Albert Lejeune, Hélène Delerue, Philipe Curmin, Hamid Nach , UQAM , Canada

“Use of Kodaxil (Knowledge, Object, Data, Action eXtensible Interoperable Language) to assist in multi language Extreme Decision making”, Gerard Levy, Independent Systems Architect Montreal, Canada

17:15 Closing Remarks – David Paradice