Decision support systems IX : main developments and future trends : 5th International Conference on decision support system technology, EmC-ICDSST 2019, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, May 27-29, 2019, Proceedings

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Decision Support Systems Technologies, ICDSST 2019, held in Madeira, Portugal, in May 2019. This year the conference is a EURO mini conference and therefore has a slightly different acronym: "EmC-ICDSST 2019". The EWG-DSS series of International Conference on Decision Support System Technology (ICDSST), starting with ICDSST 2015 in Belgrade, was 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 discuss current challenges that surround decision-making processes, to exchange ideas about realistic and innovative solutions, and to co-develop potential business opportunities. The main topic of this year’s conference was “Main Developments and Future Trends”. The 11 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 59 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: decision support systems in societal issues; decision support systems in industrial and business applications; and advances in decision support systems’ methods and technologies. EURO Working Group on Decision Support Systems 6 Preface 7 Organization 10 Contents 15 Decision Support Systems in Societal Issues 17 Fuzzy Cognitive Maps as a Tool to Forecast Emotions in Refugee and Migrant Communities for Site Management 18 Abstract 18 1 Introduction 18 2 The Emotion Model 20 3 Fuzzy Cognitive Maps 21 4 The Proposed Methodology 22 5 Conclusions 27 References 28 The Use of a Decision Support System to Aid a Location Problem Regarding a Public Security Facility 30 Abstract 30 1 Introduction 30 2 Literature Review 31 2.1 Decision Support in Public Security 31 2.2 Facility Location Problem 32 2.3 Covering Problems 33 3 The Proposed DSS 36 4 Identifying the Potential Location of MP Installations 37 5 Conclusions 41 Acknowledgment 41 References 41 Exploiting the Knowledge of Dynamics, Correlations and Causalities in the Performance of Different Road Paths for Enhancing Urban Transport Management 43 Abstract 43 1 Introduction 43 2 Study Area and Input Data; Thessaloniki as a Smart Traffic Laboratory 44 2.1 The Study Area 44 2.2 Input Traffic Data 45 2.3 The Road Network 45 3 Methodology 46 3.1 Aggregated Statistics 47 3.2 Cross Correlation Functions 47 3.3 Granger Causality 47 4 Results and Discussion 48 4.1 Initial Steps for Patterns Recognition 48 4.2 Correlation Knowledge Graphs 52 4.3 Causality Knowledge Graphs 53 4.4 Concluding Remarks 54 Acknowledgment 54 References 54 Value-Chain Wide Food Waste Management: A Systematic Literature Review 56 Abstract 56 1 Introduction 57 2 Research Methodology: Systematic Literature Review 58 2.1 Formulating the Research Questions 58 2.2 Locating Study 58 2.3 Study Selection and Evaluation 59 2.4 Analysis and Synthesis 59 2.5 Reporting and Using the Results 60 3 Findings 60 3.1 Thematic Analysis: Causes of Food Waste in the Value Chain 60 3.2 Thematic Analysis: Food Waste Prevention Strategies 63 4 Research Gaps and Future Directions 65 5 Discussion and Conclusions 66 References 67 Decision Support Systems in Industrial and Business Applications 70 Time-Aware Knowledge Graphs for Decision Making in the Building Industry 71 1 Introduction 71 2 Background and Related Work 72 2.1 General Time-Aware Aspects in Decision Making 72 2.2 Distributed Systems and Time-Awareness 73 2.3 Time-Aware Aspects in Service Composition 73 2.4 Time-Aware Knowledge Graphs 74 2.5 Heuristics in Decision Making 74 3 Our Approach of Building a Knowledge Graph 75 4 User Scenarios of the Building Industry 76 5 Time-Aware Knowledge Graphs Applied to the Building Industry 78 5.1 Concept Graph of Temporal Event Properties 79 5.2 Implementation of the Usage Examples 79 6 Conclusion and Future Work 80 References 81 A Conceptual Business Process Entity with Lifecycle and Compliance Alignment 84 Abstract 84 1 Introduction 84 2 Related Work 85 3 Business Process as an Entity: A Conceptual Model 87 4 A Business Process Lifecycle Based on the Proposed Entity 89 5 Multi-stage Compliance Framework 91 6 Discussion and Conclusions 93 References 94 How to Support Group Decision Making in Horticulture: An Approach Based on the Combination of a Centralized Mathematical Model and a Group Decision Support System 97 Abstract 97 1 Introduction 97 2 Related Work 98 2.1 Group Decision Support Systems for Agriculture or Horticulture 98 2.2 Collaborative Planning for Agriculture or Horticulture 99 3 Mathematical Model for the Tomato Planning Problem 100 4 GRoUp Support (GRUS) Description 101 5 Experiment 103 5.1 Scenario/Context 103 5.2 Results of the Centralized Mathematical Model 104 5.3 GRUS Experiment Using Solutions Generated by the Centralized Model 104 6 Conclusion 105 Acknowledgment 106 References 107 Advances in Decision Support Systems’ Methods and Technologies 109 Intelligent Multicriteria Decision Support System for a Periodic Prediction 110 1 Introduction 110 2 Related Work 111 3 Background: Dominance-Based Rough Set Approach 112 4 Intelligent Decision Support System for the Incremental Prediction 114 5 Functional Architecture of the Decision Support System 117 6 Case Study 118 6.1 Application Field 119 6.2 Approach Application 119 6.3 Results and Discussion 121 7 Conclusion 122 References 122 Assessing Multidimensional Sustainability of European Countries with a Novel, Two-Stage DEA 124 Abstract 124 1 Introduction 124 2 Literature Review 125 3 Model Formulation 128 3.1 Choice of Data and Indicators 128 4 Results 131 5 Conclusions and Future Research 134 References 134 Logikós: Augmenting the Web with Multi-criteria Decision Support 136 1 Introduction 136 2 Background 137 2.1 Informed Decision Making 137 2.2 Multi-criteria Approach 139 3 Approach 140 3.1 Web Information Objects 141 3.2 Shared Decision Profiles 142 3.3 Limiting the Need of Pairwise Comparisons Among Alternatives 142 4 Descriptive Evaluation: A Scenario 144 5 Related Work 146 6 Conclusions 147 References 148 Dynamic-R: A New ``Convincing'' Multiple Criteria Method for Rating Problem Statements 149 1 Introduction 149 2 Notations and Concepts 151 3 Overview of Dynamic-R 152 3.1 Outranking Methodology for Rating Problems 152 3.2 Presentation of Dynamic-R 153 4 Basic Concepts Within Dynamic-R 154 4.1 Basic Definitions 154 4.2 Theoretical Foundations of Dynamic-R 155 5 Discussion and Conclusion 160 References 161 Author Index 163 Front Matter ....Pages i-xviii Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Fuzzy Cognitive Maps as a Tool to Forecast Emotions in Refugee and Migrant Communities for Site Management (Maria Drakaki, Hacer Güner Gören, Panagiotis Tzionas)....Pages 3-14 The Use of a Decision Support System to Aid a Location Problem Regarding a Public Security Facility (Ana Paula Henriques de Gusmão, Rafaella Maria Aragão Pereira, Maisa Mendonça Silva, Bruno Ferreira da Costa Borba)....Pages 15-27 Exploiting the Knowledge of Dynamics, Correlations and Causalities in the Performance of Different Road Paths for Enhancing Urban Transport Management (Glykeria Myrovali, Theodoros Karakasidis, Avraam Charakopoulos, Panagiotis Tzenos, Maria Morfoulaki, Georgia Aifadopoulou)....Pages 28-40 Value-Chain Wide Food Waste Management: A Systematic Literature Review (Guoqing Zhao, Shaofeng Liu, Huilan Chen, Carmen Lopez, Jorge Hernandez, Cécile Guyon et al.)....Pages 41-54 Front Matter ....Pages 55-55 Time-Aware Knowledge Graphs for Decision Making in the Building Industry (Herwig Zeiner, Wolfgang Weiss, Roland Unterberger, Dietmar Maurer, Robert Jöbstl)....Pages 57-69 A Conceptual Business Process Entity with Lifecycle and Compliance Alignment (George Tsakalidis, Kostas Vergidis, Pavlos Delias, Maro Vlachopoulou)....Pages 70-82 How to Support Group Decision Making in Horticulture: An Approach Based on the Combination of a Centralized Mathematical Model and a Group Decision Support System (Pascale Zaraté, MME Alemany, Mariana del Pino, Ana Esteso Alvarez, Guy Camilleri)....Pages 83-94 Front Matter ....Pages 95-95 Intelligent Multicriteria Decision Support System for a Periodic Prediction (Sarra Bouzayane, Ines Saad)....Pages 97-110 Assessing Multidimensional Sustainability of European Countries with a Novel, Two-Stage DEA (Georgios Tsaples, Jason Papathanasiou, Andreas C. Georgiou, Nikolaos Samaras)....Pages 111-122 Logikós: Augmenting the Web with Multi-criteria Decision Support (Alejandro Fernández, Gabriela Bosetti, Sergio Firmenich, Pascale Zaraté)....Pages 123-135 Dynamic-R: A New “Convincing” Multiple Criteria Method for Rating Problem Statements (Oussama Raboun, Eric Chojnacki, Alexis Tsoukias)....Pages 136-149 Back Matter ....Pages 151-151 This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Algorithmic Decision Theory, ADT 2011, held in Piscataway, NJ, USA, in October 2011. The 24 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions.