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Communicating Risks in Decision Support Systems - Conference Report

Risk analysis is an emerging field of research and relatively new in forestry.
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Landscape Management: From Data to Decision - abstract submission extended

Due to increasing interest to attend our conference the registration and abstract submission for the international conference "Landscape Management: From Data to Decision" is extended to July 16, 2018!

The conference will be held on September 17-19, 2018 in Prague, Czech Republic.

More information is available at the conference website www.praguelandman2018.org

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CoP ForestDSS News March 2018

21
Mar
03.21.2018 |
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This is the March 2018 newsletter of the Community of Practice (CoP) on Forest Management Decision Support Systems sent to all registered members. We would like to update you on the recent developments in the CoP:

The minutes of the annual ForestDSS Council meeting which has taken place on the 18th of September 2017 as a side event of the 125th IUFRO Anniversary Congress in Freiburg, Germany are available online. Besides the DSS sessions during the IUFRO congress there were intensive discussions among the DSS experts how to continue with the CoP in the next years. As a consequence of the discussions we have decided to launch the DSS related news also via Twitter - so you are welcome to follow us via @dss_forest as well ! Read more ....

Opportunity to participate in DSS related conferences:

There are several conferences organized this year, which allow strengthening collaboration and outreaching by the DSS community. In the conferences the members of the CoP are actively engaged as session organizers or co-organizers of the conference, which allows you to meet colleagues or organize side events:

The ICDSST - PROMETHEE DAYS 2018 will focus on the role, the qualities, the models and methods offered by sustainable data-driven and evidence based Decision Support. The ICDSST in 2018 is jointly organized by the EURO Working Group on Decision Support Systems (EWG-DSS) and the PROMETHEE DAYS group. The conference will be hosted by the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research during 22-25 May 2018. Read more ....

The international conference "COMMUNICATING RISKS IN Decision Support Systems: from basic research to advance decision support tools" is held from 6 and 7th June in Solsona and 8th of June Barcelona. It will focus on the presentation of models, methods and decision support systems that may be used by public administrators, forest owners and industry for forest management planning in a context of risk and uncertainty. This conference is co-financed by the SuFoRun international R&D project (http://suforun.ctfc.cat/) and is organized by Centre Tecnològic Forestal de Catalunya (CTFC, Spain) and IUFRO unit 4.04.07. Read more …

The open conference of the IFIP WG 8.3 on Decision Support Systems (IFIP DSS 2018) is held during 13-15 June 2018 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The theme of the conference is “DSS Research Delivering High Impacts to Business and Society” and provides an overview about Decision Support Methodologies, Systems & Software, Decision Making, Behaviours, Data & Decision Models, Business Analytics, Intelligence & Knowledge Discovery as well as Case Studies and Applications of Decision Support. Dr. Arkady Zaslavsky from the Commonwealth Science Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is one of the keynote speakers. Read more …

There are many more conferences scheduled for 2018 - you are able to track the latest call for abstracts and get to know about interesting conferences at the news and events page of the CoP.

Opportunity to participate summer schools:

There are several summer schools organized during the summer months, which have a special focus on the development and application of forest management tools and techniques. Take the opportunity to participate in the trainings:

  • You invited to participate in the Summer School on MCDA/MCDM to be held in Chania, Greece, from 23 July - 3 August, 2018. The summer school targets towards PhD students who are interested in theoretical and applied aspects of MCDA/M and seek to get an in-depth undestanding of the field and related topics. .Read more...
  • A two-days practical workshop will be held at Umeå from 20-21.08.2018 where beginners and more advanced modellers in the realm of agent/individual-based modelling mix and meet. The objective of the workshop is to share knowledge, experience and tips and tricks in this important field of modelling and to advance our understanding of how to apply this concept to various fields of ecology.. Read more...

Call for papers in journals

The International Journal of Communications, Network and System Sciences has launched a special issue on the topic Management Information Systems. Topics can cover papers on Software development, Information management models, Analysis of information management processes or Information technology management Submission Deadline is 29th March 2018. Read more…

The Journal Forests will publish a special issue ""Integrating Ecosystem Services into Valuation and Forest Management Decisions" . Besides studies that promote the integration of different ecosystem services into forest management decision making processes through quantitative models, also mathematical programming with single and multiple criteria in deterministic and non-deterministic scenarios are welcomed. Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 Juni 2018. Read more....

New publications and tools

The working group members Isabella De Meo and Chiara Torresan have intensively worked on an updated of the list of publications related to Forest DSS on the Community portal. More than 275 references are now listed, including the most recent publications in the field of decision support. This is a valuable source for conducting reviews in the field of Forest Management Decision Support Systems. You are welcome to screen the list of publications and add you most recent paper as well!

In case that you would like to share your activties and your DSS related projects with the community, please provide us with a short notice, so that we are able to include the information in the portal and in the next newsletter. Decision Support in AFORCLIMATE and Decision support for protected area managers - FORADAPT provide some examples on interesting decision support projects.  Please check out the website for further announcements via the news and events pages or follow the latest discussions at the community pages.

 

Call for papers - International Conference on Decision Support System Technologies (ICDSST 2018) – PROMETHEE Days 2018

The ICDSST in 2018 is jointly organised by the Euro Working Group on Decision Support Systems EWG-DSS and the PROMETHEE DAYS Group. The joint-conference aims to provide a communication platform for scholars, researchers, developers, specialists and other professionals in the related areas of decision making and decision support, including DSS methodologies and technologies as well as application oriented solutions, to get together in order to exchange ideas, share experiences, discuss key issues, and identify future research and development directions.

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Call for abstracts - Communicating risks in DSS

The international conference "COMMUNICATING RISKS IN Decision Support Systems: from basic research to advance decision support tools" to be held from 6 and 7th June in Solsona and 8th of June Barcelona will focus on the presentation of models, methods and decision support systems that may be used by public administrators, forest owners and industry for forest management planning in a context of risk and uncertainty.

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Travel Award for international forest conference

Two Travel Awards for postdocs or PhD students consisting of CHF 800 / USD 850 / EUR 700 each will be awarded to attend a forestry related conference from the open access journal Forests,

Eligibility:

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Call for abstracts - EFITA WCCA Congress 2017

The 2017 EFITA Congress, European conference dedicated to the future use of ICT in the agri-food sector, bioresource and biomass sector, will take place in Montpellier from 2 to 6 July 2017.

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Call for abstracts - SSAFR 2017 extended

The Symposium on Systems Analysis in Forest Resources (SSAFR 2017) will be held from 23rd-27th of August 2017 near Seattle, WA. Past symposia brought together decision scientists from around the world who studied forest systems with the goal of making better management and policy decisions.

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Call for abstracts - KMIC 2017

Whatever the environment of the enterprise, the human capital is the most important actor in it. The brain power of the human changed the world and continues to change it. Under increasing competitive pressure, many companies are examining how they can better manage their Knowledge (KM) and their Intellectual Capital (IC). Transition of most developing and developed nations to knowledge economies has resulted in an increasing awareness of knowledge as a success factor for economic growth and performance.

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Forests and Sustainable Decision Support Systems at International Conference in DSS Technology

15
Jun
06.15.2016 |
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The 2016 International Conference on Decision Support System Technology (https://icdsst2016.wordpress.com/) took place in May 23-25, 2016 in Plymouth, UK. It was organized by the EURO Working Group for Decision Support Systems. This year conference focused on DSS for Addressing Sustainability and Societal Challenges. The conference involved around 50 participants from 16 countries in Europe, Africa, America and Asia (China, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, UK, Portugal, Austria, Serbia, Greece, Czech Republic, South Africa, Canada, Brazil and USA). Its program encompassed 4 keynote presentations addressing current main issues of decision-making in the different fields such as manufacturing, building, environment or financial uncertainty. It encompassed further more than 30 oral presentations organized into 7 sessions focusing on themes such as a) Knowledge-based DSS, b) DSS applications in healthcare and management, c) Data Analytics and risk analysis, d) Multiple Criteria Decision Making, e) Forest and Sustainable DSS, f) Supply chain and logistics DSS, g) DSS applications.

The session on “Forest and Sustainable DSS” focused on the use of DSS in forest resources management and policy analysis’. It aimed at presenting and discussing the state-of-the-art DSS in the forest sector. Decision makers are facing many challenges in managing forest resources in a sustainable manner and addressing the rising demands from society. Although the consideration of the interactions in spatial and temporal contexts between society and forest resource management is complex, there is a need for easy to use decision support tools. The special session of the ICDSST 2016 conference allowed to explore these challenges and discuss options for smart solutions.It encompassed 5 oral presentations:

  • An Operations Research-based Morphological Analysis to Support Environmental Management Decision-Making” by M. F. Teles;
  • A Web-based Forest and Natural Resources Decision Support System: SADfLOR by M. Marto;
  • A Multicriteria Decision Model for selecting Wastewater Treatment Systems for Brazilian Industrial Laundries by S. Daher;
  • Challenges in the Design of Forest Management Decision Support Systems addressing Sustainability and Societal Demands by Jan Kašpar and
  • DSS Optimal for Use in Brazil Plantation Management by Jan Kašpar.

The conference worked well as a meeting place for experts on the development and implementation of DSS and operations research methods. It brought together researchers at very different stages of their careers, from PhD students to professors and from different continents. The special session helped disseminate research on the use of DSS in forest sector among the wider DSS research and developer communities. The participants had the opportunity to share some ideas, knowledge and experience in a more informal way in the conference social activities. This may help strengthen the recent ties between IUFRO and the Community of Practice (CoP) on Forest Management Decision Support Systems (http://www.forestdss.org/) and the Euro Working Group on Decision Support Systems (EWG-DSS) (https://ewgdss.wordpress.com/about/). 

The video recording from ICDSST 2016 for all plenary sessions are available on YouTube produced by the team of Prof. Shaofeng Liu at the University of Plymouth:
 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHpn_CgmzQw0bwlHLXhhIyfrzq2dioh5S.

These include a list of links to:

Conference opening session - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNlzFUIKoT4&index=1&list=PLHpn_CgmzQw0bwlHLXhhIyfrzq2dioh5S

Two Panel sessions:        

  1.  EU Funding - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkJSHdXnjiU&index=10&list=PLHpn_CgmzQw0bwlHLXhhIyfrzq2dioh5S
  2. Journal Editors’ Panels - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZpup-LfvGo&index=6&list=PLHpn_CgmzQw0bwlHLXhhIyfrzq2dioh5S

ICDSST 2017 and ICDSST 2018 presentations- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNTGvvV_04U&index=8&list=PLHpn_CgmzQw0bwlHLXhhIyfrzq2dioh5S
Keynote presentations:      

Conference closing session - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STux8tSGmIY&index=9&list=PLHpn_CgmzQw0bwlHLXhhIyfrzq2dioh5S
 

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