OnTheMove Federated Conferences & Workshops (OTM 2011)

Call for Papers: SeDeS 2010 (Semantic & Decision Support)

Crete, Greece, Oct 27~28, 2010

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 Support System (DSS) for business intelligence (BI)
* Decision models of business information, processes and events
* Decision table and decision tree
* Group Decision Making
* Decision models/tool in eGovernment
* Ontology for eLearning and eTraining
* Ontology & decision making in business domain
* Ontology‐based data mining and data clustering
* Industrial experience with ontology‐based DSS
* Ontology and business rules
* Ontology and business service modelling
* Workflow decision making
* Decision support languages
* Semantic web and decision support
* DSS for smart house or intelligent city
* Decision support for ubiquitous systems

Intended Audience

The workshop is aimed at researchers and practitioners in the cross field of ontology engineering and decision support. The approach is to analysis and design semantic decision support model 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.

Workshop co-chairs

Dr. Yan Tang, STARLab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Prof. Dr. Jan Vanthienen, ECON Lab, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Prof. Dr. Yannis Charalabidis, Decision Support System Lab, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Important Dates (2010)

   Paper Submission Deadline: July 06

   Acceptance Notification: Jul 30
   Camera Ready Due: Aug 13
   Registration Due: Sep 3

   OTM Conferences: Oct 25 - 29, 2010
   SeDeS 2010: Oct 27-28, 2010

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.

Paper submission site: http://www.onthemove-conferences.org/index.php/submitpaper

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
Dr. Saiful Akbar, School of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Indonesia
Prof. Dr. Weihua Li, Decision Support Lab, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
Prof. Dr. José Fernán Martínez, DIATEL, Polytechnical University of Madrid (UPM), Spain
Prof. Dr. Yue Liu, School of Computer Engineering & Science, Shanghai University, China
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. Ying Liu, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Prof. Dr. Dimitris Askounis, Decision Support System Lab, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Dr. Luke Chen, School of computing and mathematics, University of Ulster, UK

For more information on the workshop, please contact:

Dr Yan Tang
e‐mail: yan.tang(at)vub.ac.be

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