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30 Years of the EWG-DSS Through the Lens of the Collab-Net Project

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Originally founded by 24 participants of the ESI VI-EURO Summer Institute on DSS, in Madeira in 1989, the EURO Working Group on Decision Support Systems (EWG-DSS) is now considered as one of the most stable and active groups of EURO and a reference on DSS in Europe and Worldwide. The EWG-DSS membership has continuously grown since its creation. The group currently counts with over 250 registered members, 340 members in LinkedIn, and 174 Twitter followers. Besides organizing annual scientific events and publications, the EWG-DSS leads a long-term research project on the analysis of its research activity, the Collab-Net project that is currently at its version 5. This chapter aims to explore the life of the group along the 30 last years of its existence through the optics of the Collab-Net project, its outcomes and its analysis.

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Acknowledgements

This chapter would not have been possible without contributions from all the developers to the project at all stages. Rahma Bouaziz who was a student at IRIT-University Toulouse III, developed the first analysis of the Collab-Net Project as described in [12]. David Dardenne, a master student at the University of Namur, studied the network in his master thesis [22] and ran the first centralities study involved in [9]. Mélanie Motte, a researcher at the University of Namur, conducted the analysis of 10 years of publications of the group, whose work is published in [15]. Jadielson Moura, a Ph.D. student at Federal University of Pernambuco, developed the V3 Platform as presented in [10, 11]. All of their work is highly appreciated!

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  1. Namur Digital Institute (NADI), University of Namur, Namur, Belgium

    Isabelle Linden

  2. Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil

    Jean Gomes Turet & Ana Paula Cabral SeixasCosta

  3. SimTech Simulation Technology, Graz, Austria

    Fatima Dargam

  4. University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK

    Shaofeng Liu

  5. UNINOVA, CA3, Caparica, Portugal

    Rita A. Ribeiro

  6. University Toulouse 1 Capitole - IRIT, Toulouse University, Toulouse, France

    Pascale Zaraté

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  1. Department of Business Administration, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece

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  2. University Toulouse 1 Capitole - IRIT, Toulouse University, Toulouse, France

    Pascale Zaraté

  3. Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Jorge Freire de Sousa

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Table 5 Special issues of journal (co-)edited by board members of EWG-DSS
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Table 6 Books Edited by board members of EWG-DSS
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Linden, I. et al. (2021). 30 Years of the EWG-DSS Through the Lens of the Collab-Net Project. In: Papathanasiou, J., Zaraté, P., Freire de Sousa, J. (eds) EURO Working Group on DSS. Integrated Series in Information Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70377-6_4

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