Decision Support Systems VI - Addressing Sustainability and Societal Challenges: 2nd International Conference, ICDSST 2016, Plymouth, UK, May 23–25, 2016, Proceedings

228 Pages·2016·18.61 MB·English

by  Shaofeng Liu

Shaofeng Liu
Boris Delibašic
Festus Oderanti (Eds.)
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Decision Support Systems VI
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Shaofeng Liu Festus Oderanti
Graduate Schoolof Management Graduate Schoolof Management
University of Plymouth University of Plymouth
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Boris Delibašić
Faculty of Organizational Science
University of Belgrade
Belgrade
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EURO Working Group on Decision Support Systems
TheEWG-DSSisaEuroWorkingGrouponDecisionSupportSystemswithinEURO,
the Association of the European Operational Research Societies. The main purpose
oftheEWG-DSSistoestablishaplatformforencouragingstate-of-the-arthigh-quality
research and collaborationwork within the DSS community. Other aims of theEWG-
DSS are to:
(cid:129) Encourage the exchange of information among practitioners, end-users, and
researchers in the area of decision systems
(cid:129) Enforce the networking among the DSS communities available and facilitate
activitiesthatareessentialforthestartupofinternationalcooperationresearchand
projects
(cid:129) Facilitatethecreationofprofessional,academic,andindustrialopportunitiesforits
members
(cid:129) Favor the development of innovative models, methods, and tools in the field of
decision support and related areas
(cid:129) Actively promote the interest on decision systems in the scientific community by
organizing dedicated workshops, seminars, mini-conferences, and conference, as
well as editing special and contributed issues in relevant scientific journals
TheEWG-DSSwasfoundedwith24members,duringtheEUROSummerInstitute
on DSS that took place at Madeira, Portugal, in May 1989, organized by two well-
known academics of the OR community: Jean-Pierre Brans and José Paixão. The
EWG-DSSgrouphassubstantiallygrownalongtheyears.Currently,wehaveover300
registered members from around the world.
Through the years, much collaboration among the group members has generated
valuable contributions to the DSS field, which resulted in many journal publications.
Sinceitscreation,theEWG-DSShasheldannualmeetingsinvariousEuropeancountries,
andhastakenactivepartintheEUROConferencesondecision-making-relatedsubjects.
Starting from2015, the EWG-DSS established itsown annualconferences,namely, the
InternationalConferenceonDecisionSupportSystemTechnology(ICDSST).
The current EWG-DSS Coordination Board comprises seven experienced scholars
andpractitionersinDSSfield:PascaleZaraté(France), FátimaDargam(Austria),Rita
Ribeiro (Portugal), Shaofeng Liu (UK), Boris Delibašić (Serbia), Isabelle Linden
(Belgium), and Jason Papathanasiou (Greece).
VI EURO WorkingGroup onDecisionSupportSystems
The Editors:
Professor Shaofeng Liu
University of Plymouth, UK
Professor Boris Delibašić
University of Belgrade, Serbia
Dr. Festus Oderanti
University of Plymouth, UK
Preface
ThissixtheditionoftheEWG-DSSDecisionSupportSystemspublishedintheLNBIP
seriespresentsaselectionofreviewedandrevisedpapersfromtheSecondInternational
Conference on Decision Support System Technology (ICDSST 2016) held in Ply-
mouth,UK,duringMay23–25,2016,withthemaintopic“DecisionSupportSystems
Addressing Sustainability and Societal Challenges.” This event was organized by the
EuroWorkingGrouponDecisionSupportSystems(EWG-DSS)incollaborationwith
the University of Plymouth.
The EWG-DSS series of International Conference on Decision Support System
Technology (ICDSST), starting with ICDSST 2015 in Belgrade, were planned to
consolidate the tradition of annual events organized by the EWG-DSS in offering a
platform for European and international DSS communities, comprising the academic
and industrial sectors, to present state-of-the-art DSS research and developments, to
discusscurrentchallengesthatsurrounddecision-makingprocesses,toexchangeideas
about realistic and innovative solutions, and to co-develop potential business
opportunities.
The scientific topic areas of ICDSST 2016 include:
(cid:129) DSS for health, demographic change, and well-being
(cid:129) DSS for food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, and bio-economy
(cid:129) DSS for marine, maritime, and inland water research
(cid:129) DSS for secure, clean, and efficient energy
(cid:129) DSS for smart, green, and integrated transport
(cid:129) DSS for sustainable construction and architecture
(cid:129) DSS for climate action, environment, resource efficiency, and raw materials
(cid:129) DSS for inclusive, innovative, and reflective societies
(cid:129) DSS for secure societies – protecting freedom and security of the world and its
citizens
(cid:129) DSS for business sustainability, innovation, and entrepreneurship
(cid:129) DSS for lean operations, reverse logistics, and sustainable supply chain
management
(cid:129) DSS for green marketing management and new product/service development
(cid:129) DSS for human resource/leadership management and organizational ethics
(cid:129) DSS for socially responsible accounting, finance and banking management
(cid:129) DSS for economics sustainability and regional/international development
(cid:129) Innovative decision-making approaches/methods and technologies
(cid:129) Big data analytics for solving societal decision-making issues
(cid:129) Knowledge management and business intelligence
(cid:129) Decision making in modern education
This wide and rich variety of topic areas allowed us, on the one hand, to present a
collection of innovative solutions to real decision-making processes in a range of
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domains,and,ontheotherhand,tohighlightthemaintrendsandresearchevolutionin
DSS. This LNBIP Springer volume edited by the EWG-DSS has considered contri-
butions from a large number of submissions that were reviewed using a triple-blind
paper evaluation method, maintaining long-established reputation and standards of
high quality of the EWG-DSS. Each selected paper was reviewed by three interna-
tionally known experts from the ICDSST 2016 Program Committee comprising 79
scholars and practitioners from 28 countries. Therefore, through a rigorous two-stage,
triple-blind review process, 15 out of 51 submissions were selected to be included in
this volume, giving an acceptance rate of 29.41 %.
Inthiscontext,theselectedpapersarerepresentativeofthecurrentandrelevantDSS
research and application advances. The papers have been classified into four major
categories: (1) DSSapplications addressing sustainabilityandsocietalchallenges such
as in agriculture, business ecosystem, health care, and environmental improvement;
(2) DSS to support business resilience/risk management and project portfolio man-
agement; (3) DSS technologies underpinned by business intelligence and knowledge
management; (4)DSStechnologyimprovingsystemusabilityandfeasibility.Thefirst
category comprises five papers, the second category three papers, the third category
five papers, and fourth category two papers.
WewouldliketothankmanypeoplewhogreatlyhelpedthesuccessofthisLNBIP
book.Firstofall,wewouldliketothankSpringerforgivingustheopportunitytoguest
edit the DSS book, and we especially wish to express our sincere gratitude to Ralf
Gerstner and Eléonore Samklu, who have provided us with timely professional guid-
anceandadviceduringthevolumeeditingprocess.Secondly,weneedtothankallthe
authors for submitting their state-of-the-art work to be considered for the LNBIP
volume.Allselectedpapersareofextremelyhighquality.Itwasaharddecisionforthe
guest editors to select the best 15. Thirdly, we wish to express our gratitude to the
reviewers, who volunteered to help with the selection and improvement of the papers.
Finally, we believe that this EWG-DSS Springer LNBIP volume has made a
high-quality selection of well-balanced and interesting research papers addressing the
conference main theme. We hope the readers will enjoy the publication!
March 2016 Shaofeng Liu
Boris Delibašić
Festus Oderanti
Organization
Conference Chairs
Shaofeng Liu University of Plymouth, UK
Boris Delibašić University of Belgrade, Serbia
Pascale Zaraté IRIT/Toulouse University, France
Fátima Dargam SimTech Simulation Technology, Austria
Rita Ribeiro UNINOVA – CA3, Portugal
Isabelle Linden University of Namur, Belgium
Jason Papathanasiou University of Macedonia, Greece
Jorge E. Hernández University of Liverpool, UK
Program Committee
Abdelkader Adla University of Oran 1, Algeria
Adiel Teixeira de Almeida Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
Alan Pearman Leeds University, UK
Alex Duffy University of Strathclyde, UK
Alexander Smirnov Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Alexis Tsoukias University of Paris Dauphine, France
Alok Choudhary Loughborough University, UK
Ana Paula Cabral Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
Ana Respício University of Lisbon, Portugal
Andy Wong University of Strathclyde, UK
Antonio Rodrigues University of Lisbon, Portugal
Ben C.K. Ngan Pennsylvania State University, USA
Bob Young Loughborough University, UK
Bo Zhou Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Boris Delibašić University of Belgrade, Serbia
Carlos Henggeler Antunes University of Coimbra, Portugal
Csaba Csaki University College Cork, Ireland
Daba Chowdhury University Campus Suffolk, UK
Daniel Power University of Northern Iowa, USA
Dobrila Petrovic Coventry University, UK
Dragana Bečejski-Vujaklija Serbian Society for Informatics, Serbia
Fátima Dargam SimTech Simulation Technology/ILTC, Austria
Francesca Toni Imperial College, UK
Festus Oderanti University of Plymouth, UK
Francisco Antunes Beira Interior University, Portugal
François Pinet Cemagref/Irstea, France