DGSS 2012 - 28th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering Workshop on Data-Driven Decision Support and Guidance Systems (DGSS)

You are invited to participate in the upcoming Workshop on Data-Driven Decision Guidance and Support Systems (DGSS), to be held as part of the 28th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2012) in April 2012 at the Renaissance Arlington Capital View Hotel in Arlington, Virginia.

Decision support systems (DSS) are widely used to support business or organizational decision-making. They are used to inform decisions at the management, operations and planning levels of an organization. Decision guidance systems (DGS) are decision support systems that go beyond organizing and displaying information, providing actionable recommendations to and extracting knowledge from human decision-makers. More specifically, Decision Guidance and Support Systems (DGSS) often need to:
Use and mine large amounts of data collected from multiple sources;
Learn deterministic or stochastic models of underlying processes from historical data;
Learn objectives or decision preferences from decision makers' responses;
Perform optimization under diverse constraints, e.g., from business or engineering limitations and laws of nature; and
Present and justify actionable recommendations to decision makers.
Audience and Scope

This workshop will bring together DGSS researchers and practitioners to present novel methodologies, models, algorithms, systems, tools, applications and case studies of DGSS. Most importantly, the workshop will be a forum to discuss how to utilize advances from multiple disciplines for building DGSS that can intelligently merge human knowledge and expertise with formal mathematical models to make better decisions. The workshop will include both formal presentations and informal discussion of important research directions in DGSS, and their interactions with Knowledge and data engineering.
Topic List

The areas below are intended as general guidance. Contributions are welcome on any topic related to DGSS and any domain using DGSS.

* Case studies of DGSS drawn from domains such as:

- Health care

- Sustainable development

- Energy efficiency and smart grid

- Environmental systems

- Military decision making

- Logistics and supply chain management

- Facility location decisions

* Fundamental technical challenges for DGSS

- Knowledge management for DGSS

- Advanced analytics for managerial DGSS

- OLAP and Data Warehousing for DGSS

- Cloud computing and DGSS

- Learning agents for DGSS

- Data mining and business intelligence for DGSS

- Regression, time series, and other statistical methods for DGSS

- Optimization methods for DGSS

- Knowledge and resource discovery for DGSS

* DGSS for different categories of decision

- Negotiation support

- Decision dynamics, processes and issues for decisions with multiple stakeholders

- Group, distributed, and collaborative DGSS

- Crowd-sourcing and collective intelligence for DGSS

- DGSS for strategic, tactical and operational level decisions