AMCIS 2007@KEYSTONE -- CONFERENCE TRACK(MINI TRACK)

Environmental Decision

Support Systems

DSS

Omar El-Gayar (omar.el-gayar@dsu.edu)
Dakota State University
College of Business and Information Systems

(605) 256-5263

Arno Scharl (scharl@ecoresearch.net)
Know-Center & Graz University of Technology
Knowledge Management Institute

+43-316-8739257

SIG URL: SIGDSS (http://sigs.aisnet.org/SIGDSS/)

Description:

This AMCIS 2007 mini-track focuses on innovative design and use of Decision Support Systems (DSS), and their application to the environmental domain. The urgency and scope of environmental problems call for both immediate action and sustainable long-term strategies. Consequently, decision-makers need to reexamine their knowledge assets and identify new methods to exploit them more effectively. The fields of environmental communication, ecosystem monitoring and environmental resource management are constantly developing such methods.

The track brings together researchers interested in exploring new and innovative applications of DSS technology and their application to the environmental domain. Environmental DSS pose unique challenges from both technical and organizational perspectives. In terms of underlying technology, one can distinguish knowledge-driven, data-driven, model-driven, and geographically-driven approaches. This mini-track aims to provide an integrative view on these disciplines and technologies, and to align academic research on DSS technology with industry practice.

The mini-track welcomes both research articles and practitioner reports, and particularly encourages the submission of theoretically founded papers that illustrate the application of DSS technology to environmental problems. The mini-track is receptive to all types of research methodologies, with a particular interest in design science research.

The mini-track will focus on:

Environmental knowledge management and decision support systems
Spatial DSS and multiple criteria DSS for environmental management; environmental applications of geospatial technology
Ecological modeling and data management in distributed environments
Environmental DSS applications (watersheds, forest, rivers, lakes, etc.)
Technical, organizational and implementation issues pertinent to environmental DSS including (but not limited to)
DSS design methodologies and approaches
DSS design issues for improved performance
DSS user interface design implications
Role and effects of user involvement in DSS design and development
Decision support model formulation
DSS outcomes and performance evaluation
Environmental online communication
Environmental networks and virtual communities
Environmental management information systems (EMIS)
Case studies of environmental communication and decision support
Emerging technologies for DSS development and delivery with applications in the environmental domain, for example:
Soft-computing methods such as artificial neural networks, fuzzy logic, and genetic/evolutionary algorithms
Web services and service oriented architectures (SOA)
Semantic Web technologies