Main Theme: Sustainable Data-Driven & Evidence-based Decision Support with Applications to the Environment and Energy Sectors

The ICDSST in 2018 is jointly organised by the Euro Working Group on Decision Support Systems EWG-DSS and the PROMETHEE DAYS Group. The joint-conference aims to provide a communication platform for scholars, researchers, developers, specialists and other professionals inthe related areas of decision making and decision support, including DSS methodologies and technologies as well as application oriented solutions, to get together in order to exchange ideas, share experiences, discuss key issues, and identify future research and development directions.Additionally,users of PROMETHEE are also welcome to participate and disseminate their theoretical developments, comparative analyses or practical applications of the PROMETHEE methods.

The ICDSST-PROMETHEE DAYS 2018will focus onthe role, the qualities, the models and methods offered by sustainable data-driven and evidence based Decision Support, mainly applied toEnvironment and Energy. On these sectors, diverse stakeholders at various governance levels seek to devise and implement sound and robust policies which mitigate environmental impacts while taking into account various parameters.Decision Support Systems can simulate different scenarios and offer solutions in modern managerial issues which are full of redundant and complex information. Such rapidly evolving situations, whichengage a large number of individuals with different agendas in complicated decision making processes,require such tools for support.It is in this context that the key topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

Decision Support Modeling

Decision Support and Expert Systems in the Environment and EnergySectors

Data Visualisation and Decision Making/Support

Environmental and Energy Data Visualisation

Geographic Information Systems

Data Science, Big Data Analytics and Business Intelligence

Technical and Managerial Dashboardsfor Decision Support

Knowledge Acquisition,Management, Extraction andVisualisation

Collaborative Decision Making

Intelligent, Web-based,Spatial Decision Support Systems

Application Models and Systems: Agricultural, Environmental, Farming, Water Resources, Livestock, Fisheries, Warehouse, Sustainable Forest and Rangeland Management, Food Processing and Supply Chain Management

Simulation Models and Systems, Regional Planning, Logistics and Traceability

Case Studies involving any of the above issues.

Contributions: We welcome submissions as: Full Papers (deadline 30 November 2017; Short Papers (by 1 March 2018); and Posters (by 25 March 2018). Templates for Papers & Posters will be available from the conference website:icdsst2018.wordpress.com.

Submission procedure: The submissions’handling and reviewing of papers of the ICDSST -PROMETHEE DAYS 2018 Conference will be done through EasyChair Conference System. Prospective authors are kindly asked to include a cover page in the submitted document indicating whether they are interested for the main ICDSST stream or the PROMETHEE DAYS stream. The EWG-DSS ICDSST-PROMETHEE DAYS2018 EasyChair link for submissionsis:https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icdsst2018.

Publications: As in previous EWG-DSS conferences, accepted papers may be published through various means, including the Conference Proceedings, the Springer book series –Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP), and the Special Issues in DSS related journals. The journals for selected and extended papers presented in the conference are the following:International Journal of Decision Support System Technology (IJDSST)KybernetesInternational Journal of Sustainable Agricultural Management and Informatics (IJSAMI)

International Journal of Information and Decision Sciences

(IJIDS)Looking forward to seeing you in Crete

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