July 25, 2015 -- Following the successful event of ICDSST 2015 in Belgrade this year, the EWG-DSS's 2016 International Conference on Decision Support System Technology (ICDSST 2016) will be held in Plymouth, UK between 23 and 25 May 2016. ICDSST 2016 will be the major event of Euro Working Group on Decision Support Systems (EWG-DSS) in 2016, jointly organised by EWG-DSS and Plymouth University. The theme of ICDSST 2016 is "Decision Support Systems Addressing Societal Challenges" reflecting the EU Horizon 2020 Programme. Specific topics of interests, publications and other information are now available on the conference website: https://icdsst2016.wordpress.com/

Important dates:

- Deadline for full paper submission for consideration to be published by Springer in *Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing is 30 November 2015

- Deadline for short paper submission for consideration to be published in ICDSST 2016 Proceedings of Abstracts (with ISBN Number) is 1 March 2016

- Deadline for poster submission for consideration to be published in ICDSST 2016 Proceedings of Abstracts* (with ISBN Number) 25 March 2016.

If you are interested in submitting your work to the conference, please check details on the conference website for further instructions. If you will be able to attend the conference, you will have the opportunity to socialise with colleagues in decision making and DSS relevant areas for potential collaboration in EU and international collaborative projects. In particular, ICDSST2016 plans to have two panel sessions: one Journal Editor's Panel to be comprised of editors of international journals and one EU Funding Panel with current EU project co-ordinators, proposal evaluators and the funder - European Commission. Hence, there will be fantastic opportunities to obtain advice and tips on publication and EU funding.

Please feel free to distribute the conference CFP and other information to your colleagues and networks. If you have any questions regarding the conference local organisation, please do not hesitate to contact us via: icdsst2016-secretariat@plymouth.ac.uk

On behalf of the EWG-DSS Co-ordination Board (Pascale Zarate, Fatima Dargam, Rita Ribeiro, Shaofeng Liu, Boris Delibasic, Isabelle Linden, Jason Papathanasiou) and ICDSST 2016 Local Organisation Committee (Festus Oderanti, Lynne Butel, Phil Megicks, Femi Oyemomi)