CALL FOR PAPERS

 

INFOS 2008

The 6th International Conference on Informatics and Systems

www.fci.cu.edu.eg/INFOS2008/

 

27 – 29 March, 2008

Cairo, EGYPT

 

Special Track

On

 

Web Based Decision Support Systems

 

 

Managers and Decision Makers face different types of challenging and sometimes complicated problems. These problems stem from the modern industrial and managerial techniques. Web-Based Decision Support Systems (WBDSS) are good tools to solve these types of problems. WBDSS deliver decision support information or decision support tools to a manager or business analyst using a "thin-client" Web browsers like Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer that is accessing the Global Internet or a corporate intranet. Web-based means the entire application is implemented using Web technologies; Web-enabled means key parts of an application like a database remain on a legacy system, but the application can be accessed from a Web-based component and displayed in a browser. This track aims to be a forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas and solutions for advanced techniques in the area of Web-Based Decision Support Systems.

 

Topics

The following is a non-exhaustive list of topics covered by the track:

·        Model-Driven DSS.

·        DSS Model Management

·        Intelligent DSS

·        Spatial DSS

·        Group DSS

·        DSS using DEA techniques

·        DSS architectures including Web and client-server approaches.

  • DSS capabilities, including development of intelligent agents, model management, incorporating hypertext in DSS, OLAP, ROLAP.

·        DSS design approaches and evaluation of DSS designs.

·        DSS model management in Web and distributed computing environments.

·        DSS typologies.

·        DSS user interface design, standards, features.

·        Neural network application

·        Factors affecting DSS implementation.

·        Impact of user characteristics on DSS use.

·        Impact of Web-Based DSS on learning, problem knowledge, problem structuring, user behavior, customers and suppliers.

·        Knowledge-Driven DSS and Expert Systems Applications

·        Impact of Knowledge-Driven DSS on insurance underwriting.

·        Integrating different types of DSS.

·        Linking models and database technologies.

·        Relationships between DSS and quality of decisions made, decision acceptance, decision satisfaction, and decision speed.

·        Selection of DSS generators and development packages.

·        Studies of industry-specific and function-specific DSS,

  • Use of computer-based information and analyses in decision making.
  • Decision Support for Crisis Management, Facilities Planning, and Marketing
  • Information and Managerial Decision Making

 

Track Chair

Assem Tharwat,

Faculty of Computers and Information, Cairo University

 

Program Committee

            Ali Bastaweesy                                     Egypt

Assem Tharwat                                    Egypt

Karel Zimmermann                               Czech Republic

            Moataz Khorshid                                  Egypt

            Mohamed Elbeltagy                              Egypt

            Mohamed Nour Eldin                           Egypt

Mohamed Rasmy                                 Egypt

            Mohamed Saleh                                   Egypt

            Ulrich Derigs                                        Germany

 

For further information

Dr. Assem Tharwat, a.tharwat@fci-cu.edu.eg