Third International Workshop
on Semantics and Decision Making
(SeDeS’12)
Rome, Italy, September 10th~14th, 2012
Background
Decision support has been gradually evolved in both the fields of theoretical decision support studies and practical assisting tools for decision makers since 1960’s. The goal of decision support is to enhance decision processes in an accurate and efficient manner. Its application fields vary from business processes, business information management, system analysis, robotics, medical decision support, programming, project management, eGovernment & eBusiness, eLearning & eTraining,
market analysis, judicial support, smart objects and ubiquitous systems.
Ontology Engineering (OE) brings new synergy to decision support. It will change (and actually now is
changing) the decision support landscape, as it will enable new breeds of decision models, DSS
applications and systems to be developed. Its realm will be significantly extended. By enabling digital
intelligence in everyday decision support flows with interoperability and shareability, decision tasks
and decision making processes in our workplaces, our homes, our businesses and even our own
routine lives, could be simplified in a more efficient, more accurate way and more comfortable way.
SeDeS presents the latest innovations and achievements of academic/business/governmental
communities on Decision Support Systems (DSS). The workshop focuses on theory, systems,
computer aided methods, models, algorithms, techniques, methodologies and applications related
to supporting decision making.
Goals and Topics
The main goal of this workshop is to give an opportunity to researchers who are interested in
decision support systems and using modern semantic technologies to meet and exchange research
and implementation ideas. Research results concerning both theories and practices can be
articulated. It also provides researchers an excellent opportunity to present their research ideas and
experimental results in paper format. Relevant topics include (but are not limited to) theoretical
and/or empirical exploration of semantics and/or decision support, as well as case studies and
experience reports related to:
Theory/principles of decision support
- Decision trees
- Decision tables
- Bayes networks
- Decision models
- Fuzzy studies
- Rough set decision making
Ontology and Decision Support System (DSS) for business intelligence (BI)
- Decision models of business information
- Business process modelling
- Event controlling
- Business rule modelling
- Business service modelling
- Workflow modelling
- Group Decision Making
- Policy making
- eGovernment modelling
- eBusiness modelling
- Pattern negotiation and analysis
- Group analysis methodologies and algorithms
- Ontologies for business decision support systems
- Competency ontology
- eLearning and Training
- Business processes
- Ontology-based data mining
- Ontology-based data clustering
- Ontology-based searching
- Ontology matching
- Industrial experiences
- DSS for smart house
- DSS for smart city
- Decision support for ubiquitous systems
- eGovernment
- eBusiness
- Mechanical DSS models
- Model visualization
Intended Audience
The workshop is aimed at researchers and practitioners in the cross field of ontology engineering
and decision support. The approach is to analyse and design semantic decision support models and
semantic DSS. Attendees familiar with ontology engineering and decision support have the
opportunity to update and deepen their knowledge and expertise in this area. Attendees less
familiar have an ideal opportunity to learn about the approach from world experts in the area, and
adopt or adapt the many benefits of the approach.
OTM General Chairs
Prof. Dr. Robert Meersman, STARLab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Prof. Dr. Tharam Dillon, DEBII Lab, Curtin University, Australia
Prof. Dr. Pilar Herrero, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Workshop co-chairs
Dr. Yan Tang, STARLab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Prof. Dr. Jan Vanthienen, LIRIS, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Important Dates (2012)
Abstract Submission deadline: May 18, 2012
Paper Submission deadline: May 25, 2012
Acceptance Notification: July 2, 2012
Camera-Ready due: July 16, 2012
Author Registration due: July 16, 2012
SeDeS’12 Workshop: September 10 - 11, 2012
Submission Guidelines
All submitted papers will be evaluated by at least three members of the program committee, based
on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. Submissions must be in
English, and may discuss industrial experience and/or academic research. Papers should not exceed
5,000 words (excluding references and appendices), and should not exceed 10 pages in the final
camera-ready format (see later). Papers are normally allocated 45 minutes for presentation. Only
electronic submissions in Adobe PDF format are acceptable. The paper submission site will be
advised later.
Paper Submission site: http://www.onthemove-conferences.org/index.php/submitpaper/ormsub/
On the original submission, include a cover page with title of paper as well as the authors’ names,
affiliations, phones, faxes, and email addresses. The total number of words in the paper (excluding
cover page, tables, and references) should be indicated on the cover page. The second page should
begin with the title of the paper followed by author names and affiliations and an abstract of no
more than 150 words.
The proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag in their LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer
Science) series. The final paper (if accepted) should be formatted using the Springer LNCS style, as
described at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Failure to commit to presentation at
the workshop automatically excludes a paper from the proceedings.
Program committee
Prof. Dr. Frode Eika Sandnes, School of Engineering, Oslo University College, Norway
Prof. Dr. Kazuya HARAGUCHI, Ishinomaki Senshu University, Japan
Prof. Dr. Olegas Vasilecas, Vilnius Gediminas technical university, Lithuania
Prof. Dr. Ying Liu, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Prof. Dr. Dimitris Askounis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Prof. Dr. Weihua Li, Decision Support Lab, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
Prof. Dr. Seunghyun Im, University of Pittsburgh Johnstown, USA
Prof. Dr. José Fernán Martínez, DIATEL, Polytechnical University of Madrid (UPM), Spain
Dr. Piotr Paszek, University of Silesia, Poland
Prof. Dr. Yue Liu, School of Computer Engineering & Science, Shanghai University, China
Dr. Saiful Akbar, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia
Dr. Jiehan Zhou, University of Oulu, Finland
Dr. Peter Spyns, EWI Flemish Government, Belgium
Prof. Dr. Zhiwen Yu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
Ir. Johan Criel, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Lab, Belgium
Dr. Bin Guo, Institut TELECOM, France
Prof. Dr. Ir. Dean Vucinic, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Dr. Luke Chen, University of Ulster, UK
Dr. Antonia Albani, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Dr. Stijn Hoppenbrouwers, Radboud University Nijmegen
Ir. Damien Trog, Collibra, Belgium
For more information on the workshop, please contact:
Dr Yan Tang
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