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Decision Support News
D. J. Power, Editor
April 17, 2016             Vol. 17, No. 08


In this issue

1) What are ethical issues associated with building and using DSS?
2) Recent Decision Support News Headlines
3) Upcoming Decision Support Conferences/Call for Papers


1) What are ethical issues associated with building and using DSS?

by Daniel J. Power
Editor, DSSResources.com

Decision support builders and users face ethical challenges and issues. Some people think that building and using a computerized decision support capability is ethically neutral. That view is wrong. People are faced with ethical choices when dealing with computerized decision support that we are only beginning to consider and evaluate. Decision support project proposals can raise ethical and value issues for systems builders. Choosing to use or not use a computerized decision support system may itself be an ethical issue. We need to identify plausible critical ethical incidents that may be faced by DSS builders, data scientists, and other users.

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2) Recent Decision Support Headlines

04/14/2016 IBM honors 11 new Fellows for outstanding work in cognitive, cloud, security and healthcare. Check release.

04/14/2016 How to maximize your app's potential using data. Check release.

3) Upcoming Decision Support Conferences/Call for Papers/Books

1. MWAIS 2016, May 19-20, Milwaukee, WI. Click here.

2. CFP: Friday, May 20, 2016, 11:59 PM PDT. IEEE DSAA'2016: Third International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics, Montreal, Oct. 17-19, 2016. Click here.

3. 2016 Open Conference of the IFIP WG 8, June 22-24, 2016, University College Cork, Ireland. Check here.

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