CoP ForestDSS News January 2015
Meetings and Workshops
The Technical University in Zvolen organized jointly with University of Lisbonon on December the 2nd, 2014 in the framework of the bilateral project "Development of modules and interfaces for forestry decision support systems" a workshop in Zvolen, Slovakia. Several presentations were given and the forest practioners had the opportunity to critically evaluate the usability of the decision support systems. For more details please check the website
Upcoming conferences and meetings
There are several meetings scheduled for this year, which would allow the members of the CoP to meet physically in a council meeting as a side event of the planned conferences. Two options are listed below, where members of the CoP are warmly welcomed to participate and present their research and submit an abstract as well:
The conference "Mountain Forest Management in a Changing World" will provide the opportunity to present and discuss the potentials and limitations of current and possible future approaches to mountain forest management for providing portfolios of ecosystem services under current and future climatic and socio-economic conditions. Themes of the conference are Potentials and limitations of current management approaches to provide multiple ecosystem services, Climate change impacts on ecosystem service provisioning in mountain forests, Disturbance regimes in mountain forests and implications for ecosystem services, Alternative management strategies in mountain forests and consequences on ecosystem service provisioning, Decision support tools for mountain forest management, Governance approaches to secure multiple ecosystem service provisioning in the future. Deadline for the submission of abstracts is 15 February 2015. The call for abstracts is available at the website
The Symposium for Systems Analysis in Forest Resources (SSAFR 2015) will be held from August 19 to August 21, 2015 in Uppsala, Sweden. The SSAFR symposia congregate researchers and practitioners in the area of Operations Research and Systems Analysis in Forest Resources. Topics of interest include: strategic, operational and tactical planning forest planning, fire and pests, spatial problems, hierarchical problems, forest operations, forest supply chain, multiple objectives, uncertainty, GIS and information technologies, algorithmic developments, exact, heuristic and metaheuristic methods as well as broad problem areas such as economics of sustainability, assessment of ecosystem services, environmental issues, wood for energy, and landscape planning. Deadline for the submission of presentations and posters is March 1st, 2015. More details can be found at the website .
The EURO 2015 as the premier European conference for Operational Research and Management Science (ORMS), organised by the European Association of Operational Research Societies in conjunction with the UK OR Society will be held from 12-15 of July in the University of Strathclyde. The organizers of the stream Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (area: OR in Natural Resources) invite you to submit an abstract of your research in the broad area of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. Your research in the field of decision support systems might fit to one of the following sessions: Sustainable Forest Management and Ecosystems Services and OR in Forestry. Deadline for the submission of presentations and posters is March 16th, 2015. For more details please check out the call for papers and the (EURO 2015 website ).
Please check out the website for further announcements via the (news and events pages ) or follow the latest discussions at the (community pages ).
New publications
There are five papers already published in the Special Issue of Forests that was intended to comprise the research presented at the 24th IUFRO World Congress. The papers provide an overview regarding how Decision Support Systems (DSS) are currently designed and applied for the sustained provision of ecosystem services within the context of climate change. For more details regarding the published papers of Marusak et al., Garcia-Gonzalo et al., Reynolds et al., Aldea et al. and Estrella et al. please check out the special issue . We are looking forward the other papers to be published soon in this special issue as well.
The list of publications is steadily growing and allows a good overview about forest DSS related papers. The most recent papers of members of the CoP are always highlighted on the main page of the CoP. You might have an interest to check the list of publications.
New members
In the last months a number of new members joined the Community of Practice and we welcome them all! Michal Petr from the Northern Research Station at Forest Research (UK), Edwin Corrigan from the University College Dublin (Ireland), Kyle Eyvindson from the University of Helsinki (Finland), Peter Surový from the Czech University of Life Sciences (Czech Republic), Naicong Li from the Spatial Decision Support Consortium (United States) and Martin Forsslund from Esri (Sweden), Suresh Thachappully from the Kerala Forest Research Institute (India) Francisco Dominguez Hernadez from the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (Mexico), Jean-Martin Lussier from the Canadian Forest Service-Canadian Wood Fibre Centre (Canada) among many others. We are happy about their involvement in the CoP and warmly welcome the new members - Here are only some of the new members with their affiliation highlighted - for more details on all members please refer to the search page
