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

---

WGIII

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)