SS-ISDA 2009 - The International worksop on Consensus and Decision Making on ISDA 2009

The worksop on "Consensus and Decision Making" (http://sci2s.ugr.es/SS-ISDA2009) is part of the Conference (ISDA 2009, http://cig.iet.unipi.it/isda09/)

Consensus is an important area of research in decision making. Consensus is defined as a state of mutual agreement among members of a group where all opinions have been heard and addressed to the satisfaction of the group. A consensus reaching process is a dynamic and iterative process composed by several rounds where the experts express, discuss and modify their preferences. Normally, this process is guided by the figure of a moderator, who helps the experts to make their preferences closer to each other. In consensus and decision making activities the management of uncertainty is necessary. The objective of the proposed session is to highlight the ongoing research on Artificial Intelligence Techniques in consensus and decision making under uncertainty. Focusing on theoretical issues and applications on various domains, ideas on how to solve consensus processes in decision making using A.I. tools, both in research and development and industrial applications, are welcome. Papers describing advanced prototypes, systems, tools and techniques and general survey papers indicating future directions are also encouraged.

We encourage authors to submit original papers as well as preliminary and promising works in the topics of the special session.

TOPICS
The topics for the special session include but are not limited to:

Grouop Decision Making
Consensus
Negotiation Process
Preference Modelling
Preference Aggregation
Rationality
Web Decision Support Systems
Applications of Decision Making
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Authors are invited to submit papers through ISDA2009 web site. Papers are up to 6 pages and must be formatted according to the IEEE Journal format. The Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. A number of selected high quality papers will be published in special issues of several international journals. Current list:

Applied Soft Computing
Soft Computing, Springer
Evolutionary Intelligence, Springer
International Journal of Hybrid INtelligente Systems, IOS Press
International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems, World Scientific
International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications, World Scientific
Neural Network World, Academy of Science, Czech Republic
For more details, please visit ISDA 2009 web site.
Please feel free to send this invitation to other colleagues that may be interested in these topics.

ORGANIZING CHAIRS
Enrique Herrera Viedma
Research Group of "Soft Computing and Intelligent Information Systems", Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Granada, Granada, Spain
Contact: viedma-AT-decsai.ugr.es
Web: http://sci2s.ugr.es

José Luis Garc�a-Lapresta
Research Group of "PREferences, Social choice And Decision aid", Department of Applied Economics University of Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain
Contact: lapresta-AT-eco.uva.es
Web: http://www2.eco.uva.es/presad/index_ing.htm