The London School of Economics and Political Science
and
The International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 8.3

International Conference on Creativity and Innovation in Decision Making and Decision Support (CIDMDS 2006)



Conference programme

International Conference on Creativity and Innovation in Decision Making and Decision Support-CIDMDS2006
June 28th to July 1st , 2006-London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.

Wednesday 28th of June, 2006

10.00-17.00

PhD Consortium
Chair Garrick Jones (LSE, UK)

A316 (Robinson Suite), 3rd Floor, Old Building

09.00-17.00

EWG DSS workshop
Chair: Pascale Zarate

S314, St Clement's Building

14.30-17.00

AIS SIG on DSS
Chair: David Paradice
Dr. Dan Power - Planning-oriented DSS.
Dr. Gerald Wagner - DSS design that exploits visual discovery
Dr. Jim Courtney - Merging the goals and philosophy of the medical domain with DSS design
Dr. Peter Keenan - Spatial decision support and geographic information systems.
Dr. David Paradice - Incorporating stories and "storytelling" into DSS design.

H206, Connaught House

From 14.00

Registration for conference delegates-collection of proceedings

Registration on 28th June (pm) is in A319 (Robinson Suite), 3rd Floor, Old Building. Registration on the 29th and 30th of June and 1st July (am) will be in the foyer area outside D1 in Clements house.

From 18.15

Welcome reception CIDMDS 2006

Box Innovation, 5th Floor, Tower 3

Thursday 29th of June


09.00-09:10

Official opening by Patrick Humphreys-Chairman of IFIP WG 8.3

D1, Clement House

09.10-10.10

Keynote 1: Babis Mainemelis (London Business School)
Playfulness & Creativity in Decision Making
CHAIR: Patrick Humphreys

D1, Clement House

10:10-11:10

Session 1 (part 1): Understanding creativity and innovation
CHAIR: Frederic Adam

D1, Clement House

 

Deciding to Innovate, and Making it Happen
A.M. McCosh

 

 

A Framework for Organisational Creativity & Innovation
R.V.V. Vidal, L. Sørensen, U. Holmetoft and M. Gottfredsen

 

 

 

 

11.10-11.30

Tea / Coffee Break

D202, Clement House

 

 

 

11:30-13:30

Session 1 (part 2): Understanding creativity and innovation
CHAIR: Frederic Adam

D1, Clement House

 

Creative Freedom and Decision Support Systems
R. Meredith

 

 

An Empirical Study of the Evolving Dynamics of Creative Teams in Action
D. Raisey, K. Tan, P. Swatman, and T. Blackburn

 

 

Supporting Creative Processes in “Any Time and Place” and Initial Empirical Work
T. Blackburn, V. Nguyen, P. Swatman and Rudi Vernik

 

 

Innovation and Knowledge Processes in an Inter-organisational Collaboration
L. Garcia-Lorenzo

 

 

 

 

11:30-13:30

Session A: Multi-criteria Decision Making and Applications
CHAIR: Frada Burstein

D702, Clement House

 

Intelligent Decision Support Tool for Prioritizing Equipment Repairs in Critical/Disaster Situations
P. Sousa, J.P. Pimentão and R. A. Ribeiro

 

 

Higher-Order Uncertainty Approach to Revision of Probabilistic Qualitative Multi-Attribute Decision Models
M. Znidarsic, M. Bohanec and B. Zupan

 

 

A multicriteria framework for locating and retrieving crucial knowledge
M. Farah, C. Rosenthal-Sabroux, I. Saad and D. Vanderpooten

 

 

Incosistent preferences in verbal decision analysis
A.B. Petrovsky

 

 

 

 

13.30-14.30

Lunch Break

D202, Clement House

 

 

 

14:30-16:00

Session 2 (part 1): Understanding creativity and innovation-tools and prototypes
CHAIR: Fatima Dargam

D1, Clement House

 

High-level decision support in companies: Where is the support for creativity and innovation?
Sari Stenfors Leena Tanner

 

 

IT-based Creativity Support Systems for Organizations: Where Are We?
A. C. Garavelli. M. Gorgoglione and C. Palmisano

 

 

Innovative Socio-Technical Systems for Complex Decision-making
H. Hasan and K. Crawford

 

 

 

 

14:30-16:00

Session B (part 1): Modelling uncertainty and using simulation tools
CHAIR: Leonid Churilov

D702, Clement House

 

Decision Support for Public Tax Policies through Social Simulation
A. Respicio, L. Antunes, J. Balsa and H. Coelho

 

 

A Method for Uncertainty Quantification in Expert Decision Support Systems
N. Chugunov, G. Shepelyov and M. Sternin

 

 

Structuring uncertainty: sponsoring innovation and creativity
P. M. Bednar and C. Welch

 

 

 

 

16.00-16.30

Tea / Coffee Break

D202, Clement House

 

 

 

16:30-18:00

Session 2 (part 2): Understanding creativity and innovation-tools and prototypes
CHAIR: Fatima Dargam

D1, Clement House

 

Problem Solving and Creativity For Decision Support Systems
C. Tijus and P. Brézillon

 

 

Creative Decision Support System: An Empirical Evaluation
M. Handzic and A. Loy

 

 

A Financial Consulting Support System based on the Data-Dialog-Modeling-Communication-Creativity Paradigm
S. Stanek, H. Sroka and Z. Twardowski

 

 

 

 

16:30-18:00

Session B (part 2): Modelling uncertainty and using simulation tools
CHAIR: Leonid Churilov

D702, Clement House

 

Dealing with epistemic uncertainty in the SST framework
V. Katos, P.M. Bednar and C.Welch

 

 

A Novel Matrix-Agent Connection Design in Multi-agent
Based Architecture for Decision Support Systems.
Authors: H.L. Zhang, C. H.C. Leung and G. K. Raikundalia.

 

 

Supporting Process Engineering: From Simulators to Simulation Environment
F. Fabre, G. Hetreux, P. Zarate and J. M. Le Lann

 

 

 

 

18.00-18.45

Business meeting: IFIP 8.3 task force on Learning from case studies of decisions making and decision support
Chair: Frederic Adam

D 306, Clement House

Friday 30th of June, 2006


09.00-10.00

Keynote 2: Rex Brown (George Mason University)
Decision Aiding Needs Research Designed to be Useful
CHAIR: Andrew Mc Cosh

D1, Clement House

 

 

 

10:00-11:00

Session C (part 1): Core debates for the DSS discipline
CHAIR: Henry Sroka

D702, Clement House

 

Eight Key Issues for the Decision Support Systems Discipline
D. Arnott and G. Pervan

 

 

The theory-practice divide in decision support systems research
S. Eom

 

 

 

 

10:00-11:00

Session Work in progress (part 1)
CHAIR: Malini Jayaganesh

D306, Clement House

 

Using the Policy Analysis Framework to Design a DSS
R. Wijnen, W. Walker

 

 

Innovation and creativity in university
R. Dehnavi. E Hassanzadeh, M Shahheidari, S Nourihekmat

 

 

 

 

11.00-11.30

Tea / Coffee Break

D202, Clement House

 

 

 

11.30-13.00

Session 3 (part 2): Tools for supporting group decision making
CHAIR: Pascale Zarate

D1, Clement House

 

Design and Development of a Role-Oriented, Web-based Planning Decision Support System: PlanningDSS.com
D.J. Power

 

 

Computerized Support for Qualitative Meta-synthesis as Perspective Development for Complex Problem Solving
X. Tang and Y. Liu

 

 

Context-based Groupware Systems
P. Brézillon and J.-C. Pomerol

 

 

 

 

11.30-13.00

Session C (part 2): Core debates for the DSS discipline
CHAIR: Henry Sroka

D702, Clement House

 

Research in Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence: 1990-2004
G. Pervan and D. Arnott

 

 

A Critical Review of Literature on Data Warehouse Systems Success and Failure
D. Briggs and P. O'Donnell

 

 

A decision support system for delineating the intellectual structure of academic disciplines: Development and implementation
S. Eom

 

 

 

 

11.30-13.00

Session Work in progress (part 2)
CHAIR: Malini Jayaganesh

D306, Clement House

 

A Portal Based Architecture for Cooperative Decision Making that Supports Knowledge Management
Kenneth A. Griggs, Rosemary H. Wild

 

 

Decision support grid-a collaboration framework
Huang Jin Cia

 

 

 

 

13.00-14.00

Lunch Break

D202, Clement House

 

 

 

14:00-15:30

Session 4: Understanding Decision Making
CHAIR: Rita Ribeiro

D1, Clement House

 

Measures of Network Centrality Correlates to Coordination
L. Hossain and A. Wu

 

 

Towards a Netsourcing Decision Model: An Empirical Evaluation of Criteria Determining Organizational Decision Making
C. Huyskensand C. Loebbecke

 

 

Contexts and Process Design in Group Decision Authoring and Communication Support
P. Humphreys and G. Jones

 

 

 

 

14:00-15:30


Session D: Entreprise Wide systems and Decision Support
CHAIR: Peter O'Donnell

D702, Clement House

 

Opportunities for Innovative Use of CRM and Event-Based Marketing in Decision Making During the Product Development Life Cycle
J. Ionescu and I. Jagielska

 

 

CRM System Benefits: Encouraging Innovative Use of CRM Systems
M. Jayaganesh, G. Shanks and I. Jagielska

 

 

Implementing radical changes with ERP-a case study in the Irish Health Service
D. Sammon and F. Adam

 

 

 

 

15.30-16.00

Tea / Coffee Break

D202, Clement House

 

 

 

16:00-18:00

Session 5: Tools for supporting decisions
CHAIR: Dan Power

 

 

A suite of decision support services to support port planning
R. T.H. Chin and A. Verbraeck

 

 

Mobile Interfaces For Decision Support
T. Acton, W. Golden and H. van der Heijden

 

 

Designing an organizational memory system to facilitate consultation and transparency of decision information
F. Agahi

 

 

MindTrack-A Computer Aided Decision Support / Problem Solving Tool
J. Gao and M. XiaoChen

 

 

 

 

18:45-late

Conference dinner while cruising on the Thames riverboat Naticia

Embarkation Point: Embankment

Saturday 1st of July, 2006


09.00-10.00

Keynote 3: Osvaldo Garcia (Systems Design, Santiago de Chile)
Self Management: an Innovative Tool for Enactive Human Design
CHAIR: Sven Carlsson

D1, Clement House

10.00-11.00

Panel: Creativity and Innovation in Decision Support
Chair: Patrick Humphreys
Panelists: Rex Brown (George Mason University), Osvaldo Garcia (Systems Design, Santiago de Chile), Babis Mainemelis (London Business School), Garrick Jones (London School of Economics and Ludic Group LLP) and Lewis Pinault (BOX, London).

D1, Clement House

 

 

 

11.00-11.30

Tea / Coffee Break

D202, Clement House

 

 

 

11:30-13:30

Session 6: Knowledge Management, Business Intelligence and Data warehouses
CHAIR: Liaquat Hossain

D1, Clement House

 

Strategy and Structure in Organizational Intelligence
B. Cronquist

 

 

Decision Support through Knowledge Management: What Works and What Breaks
S. A. Carlsson and T. Kalling

 

 

Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence Governance: An Empirical Study
D. Arnott

 

 

 

 

11:30-12:30

Session E: Context in Decision Making
CHAIR: Paul Swatman

D702, Clement House

 

Context-based Formalisms and Representation Levels in Decision Making
P. Brezillon

 

 

Using Context To Support Group Decision Making in Disasters Affecting Urban Areas
S. F. Ochoa, A. Neyem, J.A. Pino and M.R.S. Borges

 

 

 

 

12:30-13:30

Session F: Intelligent DSS
CHAIR: Gloria Wren

D702, Clement House

 

Combining data mining and case-based reasoning for intelligent decision support for pathology ordering by general practitioners in Australia
Z.Y. Zhuang, L. Churilov, F. Burstein and K. Sikaris

 

 

Evaluation of Decision-making Support Systems (DMSS): An Integrated DMSS and AI approach
G. Phillips-Wren, M. Mora, G.A. Forgionne and J.N.D. Gupta

 

 

 

 

13.30-14.15

Lunch Break

D202, Clement House

 

 

 

14.15-15:45

Session 7: Role of users in DSS
CHAIR: Sean Eom

D1, Clement House

 

The Client and User in Decision Support Systems: Review and Research Agenda
G. Dodson, D. Arnott and G. Pervan

 

 

Applying a user centred design apporach to building a personalised health information portal for Decision Support
J. Fisher, F. Burstein, S. McKemmish and R. Manaszewicz

 

 

The effect of learning style on the ability of end-users to perform OLAP query: An experimental study
P. O'Donnell

 

 

 

 

14:15-15:45

Workshop : Personal problem solving and counselling
CHAIR :Patrick Humphreys

D702, Clement House

 

A Problem Solving Process Model for Counseling (PSPM-C)
Athena Chatjoulis

 

 

Workshop and discussion animated by Athena Chatjoulis

 

 

 

 

15.45-16.00

Tea / Coffee Break

D202, Clement House

 

 

 

16.00-17.00

Business meeting: Conference close and WG 8.3 business meeting
Session Chairperson: Patrick Humphreys

D1, Clement House


All rooms have projection equipment for normal transparencies and will be equipped for projection of computer output if requested by authors.

A number of networked computers with access to the Internet will be made available to delegates for email purposes in Room S315, 3rd Floor, St Clements Building.

Rooms D206 and D 306 (this room free except between 10.00 to 11.00 and 11.30 to 13.00 on the Friday morning) will be available to conference delegates for meetings for the duration of the conference


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