2011-06 Thessaloniki Case Study Notes by WG

==WGI

Purposes: Lessons learned ! Concrete impacts of DSS in SFM Role of architecture and development process Why DSS are not used ... ?

The set of case studies should cover ... most important planning problem types (based on the number of countries mentioning them ?) most (all) regions covered by COST FORSYS (group of countries) different types of architectures and development methodologies issues like interoperability, GUI (user friendliness) successful and unsuccessful DSSs (what is successful ?) most of the temporal and spatial scales

Single case study selection criteria: - Described in the WIKI (gold flag), presented in the country report - Possibility to come in contact with developers, researchers and users?

Selection of the case studies – what kinds of case studies ? how many ? Main problem types  assessment  3 case studies Context, tradition, institutional setup (why DSS used, why not)  2

WG3

Criteria - Problem types should cover different countries in a wider geographical context (Non Cost countries, Cost Countries,…) - Screening of DSS is not enough – analyze certain hypothesis - What are the similarities/differences in the context of the applicationss (Who? How?)

Topics - Comparing DSS for Fire management - Comparing DSS for adapting forest management under CC - Comparing DSS for utilization of forest resources for energy use - Comparing DSS for Sustainable Forest Management

Other issues - Comparing DSS in most often described problem types (reduce dimensions) - Comparing the development processes for DSS (regional, forest, stand – strategic, tactical, operational) - Comparing the process of the DSS application from KM perspective (how the tools Expert Systems, Knowledge Mapping, Web Portal are used and benchmark with others)