EURO Working Group on DSS

Jason Papathanasiou is an Associate Professor at the Department of Business Administration, University of Macedonia, Greece. He has worked for a number of years at various institutes and has organized and participated in a number of international scientific conferences and workshops. He has published papers in international scientific peer referred journals like the Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, Regional Studies, European Journal of Operational Research, PNAS, Fuzzy sets and Systems, and has edited or authored a number of books. He has participated and coordinated many research projects in FP6, FP7, Horizon 2020, Erasmus+, Interreg and COST; he was also a member of the TDP Panel of COST. His research interests include Decision Support Systems, Operational Research and Multicriteria Decision Making.Pascale Zaraté is a Professor at Toulouse 1 Capitole University since 2010. She conducts her research at the IRIT laboratory. Pascale Zaraté’s current research interests include: Decision Support Systems; Group Decision Support Systems; Distributed and Asynchronous Decision Making Processes; Knowledge Modelling; Cooperative Knowledge Based Systems; and Cooperative Decision Making. She was coordinator of the EURO Working Group on DSS for 20 years; she is currently coordinator of the Artificial Intelligence department at IRIT and Vice-Chair of the INFORMS Group Decision and Negotiation section. She participated to several European project and currently is member of the H2020-MSCA-RISE RUCAPS project. She published papers in journals like EJOR, Expert Systems with Applications, JDS, etc… She is Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Decision Support System Technologies, IGI Global, since 2010.Jorge Freire de Sousa is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP) and a Senior Researcher at INESC TEC in Porto. Since 1987, he has been working as a consultant and leader ofseveral industry projects at INEGI, an R&D interface institute of the UP. He was the Head of the Industrial Engineering and Management Unit at FEUP (1997-98 and 2003-05), a member of the Board of STCP, the Public Transport Company of Porto (1998-2002 and 2006-2012), and a member of the Direction of the Portuguese Association of Operational Research (2005-2007). He has participated in several national and European R&D projects in areas related to transport systems and mobility. His main research interests are public transport, transport planning, urban mobility, transport policy, decision support, business strategy, and morphological analysis. He published in journals like ACM Computing Surveys, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, EJOR, among others.

• Chapter 1. Decision Support Systems - Historical Innovations and Modern Technology Challenges.- Chapter 2. Thirty years of Decision Support: A Bibliometric view.- Chapter 3. Two Grand Challenges for DSS Evolution.- Chapter 4. 30 Years of the EWG-DSS through the Lens of the Collab-Net Project.- Chapter 5. Decision support in the era of social media and user-generated content.- Chapter 6. The evolution of Decision Support Systems for agriculture: A bibliometric network approach.- Chapter 7. 30 years Business Intelligence: from Data Analytics to Big Data.- Chapter 8. A systematic literature review of knowledge mobilisation and its support for business decisions over two decades (1999-2019).- Chapter 9. Social Responsibility of Algorithms: an overview.- Chapter 10. Negotiation Support - Trends and Problems.- Chapter 11. From Data and Models to Decision Support Systems: Lessons and Advice for the Future.- Chapter 12. DSS for Multicriteria Preference modeling with partial information andits modulation with behavioral studies.- Chapter 13. From Radical Movement to Organizational Mainstream: A Behavioral Economics Perspective on DSS History.- Chapter 14. The History and Future of PROMETHEE. Chapter 15. On the Impact of Big Data Analytics in Decision-Making Processes.- Chapter 16. The evolution of DSS in the pig industry and future perspectives.- Chapter 17. Game-Based Learning and Decision-Making for Urban Sustainability: a Case of System Dynamics Simulations.- Chapter 18. Advanced rule-based approaches in customer satisfaction analysis: Recent development and future prospects of fsQCA.- Chapter 19. Use of multicriteria analysis for enhancing sustainable urban mobility planning and decision making.