EURO Working Group on DSS: A Tour of the DSS Developments Over the Last 30 Years

This book recapitulates the major developments in Decision Support Systems (DSS) over the last 30 years in order to evaluate the research areas of decision making and in which direction the field should proceed. As it attempts to find a consensus about the next steps for the future of DSS research, the book also enforces the trends and new technologies currently in use.

The book examines topics such as decision analysis for enterprise systems and non-hierarchical networks, integrated solutions for decision support and knowledge management in distributed environments, decision support system evaluation and analysis through social networks, and e-learning and its application to real environments. It clearly presents the evidence to support their cases and attempts to promote an extensive and objective discussion. In addition, the book also reflects on approaches to dead-end ideas and failures in DSS to better understand the lessons learned.

The contributions for this book have been written by thought leaders and influential researchers from the EURO Working Group of Decision Support Systems (EWG-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 of several 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.