Paris, France, December 5, 2008 -- The Association for Information Systems (AIS) Special Interest Group on Decision Support, Data and Knowledge Management Systems (SIG DSS), the International Society for Decision Support Systems, is organizing a workshop under the umbrella of the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS-2008). The workshop theme is "Supporting real time decision-making: The role of context in decision suppport on the move." It will be held on Saturday, December 13, 2008 at Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6. Please check the workshop website: http://www-poleia.lip6.fr/~brezil/RTDMC-08/.

You can register for the workshop through the ICIS 2008 website at the same time as you register for the conference. Another option can be the payment on site. Contact Patrick Brezillon, Patrick.Brezillon@lip6.fr, University Paris VI, France.

The registration fee for the workshop is 70 euros which includes participation in the workshop and pre-workshop facilitated discussion, lunch and two break refreshments.

08.30 am Registration

09.00 am Opening and Welcome

09.15 am Keynote Address by Daniel Power
Challenges for Real-Time Decision Support

10.00 am Morning tea/Coffee break

PAPER SESSION 1 10.30am-11.30am

Why real time transaction processing fails to capture the context
required for decision support
Fergal Carton, Frederic Adam and Patrick Brézillon

The impact of audit frequency on information truthfulness and effort in
online decision support context
Reza Barkhi

PAPER SESSION 2 11.30am-12.30pm

Data presentation for agile information systems project decision
making
Raija Halonen, Kieran Conboy, Thomas Acton

Requirements for context-awareness in real-time decision support
systems
Yves.Vanrompay and Yolande Berbers

Context and time critical decision support for medical triage
Shane Grigsbi

12.30 pm LUNCH (Included in registration)

PAPER SESSION 3 14.00pm-15.30pm

Improvisation as model for real-time decision-making
Eric W. Stein

The contextual and collaborative dimensions of avatar in real-time
decision making
Norita Ahmad and Reza Barkhi

Creating low-latency dashboards using event-driven business
intelligence
Dan Marinescu and Alexis Naibo

Situation understanding process: the cornerstone for crisis
management support
Florence Aligne

Strategic bidding with context-based system
Ly-Fie Sugianto and Moeljono Widjaja

03.30 pm AFTERNOON TEA

04.00 pm till 5:30pm
Panel and Round table Session on Real-time Decision Support in
Emergency Management

Participants: David Paradice (discussant), Marcos Roberto da Silva
Borges, Arkady Zaslavsky, Uday Kulkarni, Frada Burstein

07.00 pm onwards
CONFERENCE DINNER (Optional Social Event)