Decision Support Systems – Collaborative Models and Approaches in Real Environments: Euro Working Group Workshops, EWG-DSS 2011, London, UK, June 23-24, 2011, and Paris, France, November 30 - December 1, 2011, Revised Selected and Extended Papers

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by  António Arrais-Castro (auth.), Jorge E. Hernández, Pascale Zarate, Fátima Dargam, Boris Delibašić, Shaofeng Liu, Rita Ribeiro (eds.)

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SeriesEditors
WilvanderAalst
EindhovenTechnicalUniversity,TheNetherlands
JohnMylopoulos
UniversityofTrento,Italy
MichaelRosemann
QueenslandUniversityofTechnology,Brisbane,Qld,Australia
MichaelJ.Shaw
UniversityofIllinois,Urbana-Champaign,IL,USA
ClemensSzyperski
MicrosoftResearch,Redmond,WA,USA
Jorge E. Hernández Pascale Zarate
Fátima Dargam Boris Delibašic´
Shaofeng Liu Rita Ribeiro (Eds.)
Decision Support Systems –
Collaborative Models and Approaches
in Real Environments
Euro Working Group Workshops, EWG-DSS 2011
London, UK, June 23-24, 2011
and Paris, France, November 30 - December 1, 2011
Revised Selected and Extended Papers
1 3
VolumeEditors
JorgeE.Hernández
UniversityofLiverpool,UK
E-mail:[email protected]
PascaleZarate
TolouseUniversity,France
E-mail:[email protected]
FátimaDargam
SimTechSimulationTechnology,Graz,Austria
E-mail:[email protected]
BorisDelibašic´
UniversityofBelgrade,Serbia
E-mail:[email protected]
ShaofengLiu
UniversityofPlymouth,UK
E-mail:[email protected]
RitaRibeiro
UNINOVA–CA3,Lisbon,Portugal
E-mail:[email protected]
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Preface
Thisbookcontainsextendedandrevisedversionsofasetofselectedpapersfrom
the EWG-DSS workshops held in London and Paris, in June and in November
2011,respectively.TheseworkshopswereorganizedbytheEuroWorkingGroup
on Decision Support Systems (EWG-DSS) and partially sponsored by the As-
sociation of European Operational Research Societies (EURO), in cooperation
with the Management School University of Liverpool (ULMS) in the UK; the
University of Toulouse, the Institute of Research in Informatics of Toulouse
(IRIT) in France; the UNINOVA - CA3 - Computational Intelligence Research
Group in Portugal; the School of Management, University of Plymouth in the
UK; the company SimTech Simulation Technology in Austria; the Institute of
Logic and Theory of Science (ILTC), Brazil; the University of Belgrade in Ser-
bia; the School of Business, Economics and Informatics at Birkbeck, University
of Londonin the UK; the Paris-DauphineUniversity in France; the Laboratoire
d’Analyse et Mod´elisation de Syst`emes pour l’Aide a` la DEcision (LAMSADE)
in France and the Decision Analysis Special Interest Group of the British OR
Society (DASIG).
The purposes of the London and Paris 2011 EWG-DSS workshops were to
bring together academics, researchers, practitioners, and enterprises interested
in implementing collaborative perspectives for different kinds of environments.
The workshops themes were “Decision Support Systems” and “Collaborative
Decision Making,” respectively. Hence, the scientific areas of interest for se-
lectedcontributionsfromthesetwooutstandingworkshopswere:(a)distributed
groupsupportsystems;(b)collaborativedecisionmaking;(c)supplychainman-
agement; (d) information technologies; and (e) simulation. In addition, since
effective collaboration leads to collaborative advantages and also to a better
partnership performance, the proper understanding and visualization is to be
supported by considering different perspectives of collaborations in real envi-
ronments. In this context, the London and Paris 2011 EWG-DSS workshops’
selectedpapersarerepresentativeofthecurrentresearchactivitiesintheareaof
decision support systems and addresses these challenges by considering a large
numberofresearchtopics:frommorestaticandabstractones,suchasconceptual
models, to more dynamic and technical ones, such as decision support systems
and software simulations and specification, from more enterprise-oriented ones,
such as business knowledge management process and collaborativespecification
and requirements to more multi-objective and multi-criteria expert systems to
support the different business behaviors in collaborative environments.
Both 2011 EWG-DSS workshops, London and Paris, considered 39 and 13
papers for oral presentation each. From the total of 52 papers, 11 papers were
selected for publication in this edition by considering their content, structure
and presentation quality. This led to a “full-paper” acceptance ratio of 22%,
VI Preface
and shows the intention of preserving a high-quality forum for the next edi-
tions of EWG-DSS workshops. The proceedings selection and publication pro-
cess was based on a double-blind paper evaluation method: each selected paper
wasreviewedby atleasttwointernationallyknownexpertsfromthe EWG-DSS
ProgramCommittee.
The high quality of the London and Paris EWG-DSS workshop programs
wasenhancedbyfivekeynotelectures,deliveredbydistinguishedguestswhoare
renownedexperts in their fields, including (alphabetically): Alex Duffy (Univer-
sityofStrathclyde,Glasgow,UK),PhilipPowell(SchoolofBusiness,Economics
andInformaticsatBirkbeck,UniversityofLondon,UK),andRitaRibeiro(CA3
– Computational Intelligence Research Group at UNINOVA, Portugal) for the
London’s workshop, and (alphabetically): Denis Bouyssou (Centre National de
Recherche Scientifique in Paris, France) and Sihem Amer-Yahia (Qatar Com-
putingResearchCenter,Qatar)fortheParisworkshop.Theirlectureswerevery
interestingandtherewasahighlevelofinformationexchangeforfurtherfruitful
cooperation among all participants. We would like to take this opportunity to
express our gratitude to all those who contributed to the EWG-DSS workshops
activities in 2011, including authors, reviewers, Program Committee members,
andinstitutionalsponsors.Finally,wehopeyouwillfindthecontentsusefuland
interesting to tackle many of the collaborative challenges, in terms of research
and practice activities, when addressing any of the related researchareas.
Jorge E. Herna´ndez
Pascale Zarate
Fa´tima Dargam
Boris Delibaˇsi´c
Shaofeng Liu
Rita Ribeiro
Euro Working Group on Decision Support
Systems
TheEWG-DSSisaWorkingGrouponDecisionSupportSystemswithinEURO,
the Association of the European Operational Research Societies.
The main purpose of the EWG-DSS is to establish a platform for encourag-
ing state-of-the-art high quality research and collaboration within the decision
support systems (DSS) community. Additional EWG-DSS aims are to:
(cid:129) Encourage the information exchange among practitioners, end-users, and re-
searchers in the area of DSS
(cid:129) Enforcenetworkingamongthe DSScommunitiesandfacilitateactivities that
are essential for starting up international cooperation research and projects
(cid:129) Facilitate professional academic and industrial opportunities for its members
(cid:129) Favor the development of innovative models, methods, and tools in the field
DSS and related areas
(cid:129) ActivelypromotetheinterestinDSSinthescientificcommunitybyorganizing
dedicated workshops, seminars, mini-conferences, and conference streams in
majorconferences,aswellaseditingspecialandcontributedissuesinrelevant
scientific journals.
The EWG-DSS was founded during a memorable EURO Summer Institute on
DSS that took place atMadeira,Portugal,in May1989.This Summer Institute
was organizedby two well-known academics of the OR community: Jean-Pierre
Brans and Jos´e Paixa˜o. It enjoyed the participation of 24 young researchers of
16 different nationalities. The number of EWG-DSS members has substantially
grownalongtheyears.Bythe endof2011wewereover150registeredmembers,
coming from various nationalities.
Throughtheyears,quiteafewwell-qualifiedresearchco-operationshavebeen
establishedwithin the groupmembers, whichhave generatedvaluable contribu-
tions to the DSS field in journal publications. Since its creation, the EWG-DSS
has held annual meetings in various European countries, and has taken active
part in the EURO Conferences on decision-making-relatedsubjects.
Since the beginning of 2011, the EWG-DSS coordination board has been
composed of: Pascale Zarat´e (France), Fa´tima Dargam (Austria), Rita Ribeiro
(Portugal), Jorge E. Herna´ndez (UK), Boris Delibaˇsi´c (Serbia) and Shaofeng
Liu(UK).
Organization
Conference Chairs
Fa´tima Dargam SimTech Simulation Technology, Austria
Pascale Zarat´e IRIT / Toulouse University, France
Rita Ribeiro UNINOVA – CA3, Portugal
Jorge E. Herna´ndez University of Liverpool, UK
Shaofeng Liu University of Plymouth, UK
Boris Delibaˇsi´c University of Belgrade, Serbia
Program Committee
Ana Resp´ıcio University of Lisbon, Portugal
Antonio Rodrigues University of Lisbon, Portugal
Boris Delibaˇsi´c University of Belgrade, Serbia
Csaba Csaki University College Cork, Ireland
Dragana Becejski-Vujaklija University of Belgrade, Serbia
Fa´tima Dargam ILTC, Brazil and SimTech Simulation
Technology, Austria
Fr´edreric Adam University College Cork, Ireland
Isabel Nunes Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Jason Papathanasiou University of Macedonia, Greece
Joa˜o Cl´ımaco Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Joa˜o Lourenc¸o IST, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
Jorge Freire de Souza Engineering University of Porto, Portugal
Jorge E. Herna´ndez University of Liverpool, UK
Jorge Pinho de Sousa Engineering University of Porto, Portugal
Jos´e Maria Moreno ZaragozaUniversity, Spain
Leonilda Varela Leonilde University of Minho, Portugal
Nadia Lehoux Universit´e Laval, Canada
Pascale Zarat´e IRIT / Toulouse University, France
Peter Keenan University College Dublin, Ireland
Philip Powel Birkbeck, University of London, UK
Rita Ribeiro UNINOVA – CA3, Portugal
Rudolf Vetschera University of Vienna, Austria
Sean B. Eom Southeast Missouri State University, USA
Shaofeng Liu University of Plymouth, UK
X Organization
Organizing Committee
EWG-DSS
Fa´tima Dargam SimTech Simulation Technology, Austria
Pascale Zarat´e IRIT / Toulouse University, France
Rita Ribeiro UNINOVA – CA3, Portugal
Jorge Herna´ndez University of Liverpool, UK
Shaofeng Liu University of Plymouth, UK
Boris Delibaˇsiæ University of Belgrade, Serbia
London
Philip Powell School of Business, Economics and Informatics
at Birkbeck, University of London
Paris
Nadia Papamichail Manchester Business School, UK
Alexis Tsoukias Professor at LAMSADE CNRS,
Paris-Dauphine University, France
Technical Sponsors
Working Group on Decision Support Systems
(http://ewgdss.wordpress.com/)
(cid:3)
Association of European Operational Research
Societies
(www.euro-online.org)
Organisational Co-Sponsors
Management School, University of
Liverpool, UK
(http://www.liv.ac.uk/management/)
University of Toulouse, France
(http://www.univ-tlse1.fr/)
IRIT Institut de Research en
(cid:3)
Informatique de Toulouse, France
(http://www.irit.fr/)
Organization XI
UNINOVA - CA3 - Computational
Intelligence Research Group
(www.uninova.pt/ca3/)
School of Management,
University of Plymouth, UK
(http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/)
SimTech Simulation Technology,
Austria
(cid:3) (htt#p://w#ww.SimTechnology.com)
ILTC - Instituto de Lo´gica Filosofia
e Teoria da Ciˆencia, RJ, Brazil
(http://#www.#iltc.br)
University of Belgrade, Serbia
(http://www.bg.ac.rs/eng/uni/university.php#)
(cid:3)
School of Business, Economics and
Informatics at Birkbeck, University
of London
(http://www.bbk.ac.uk/)
Paris-Dauphine University
(http://www.dauphine.fr/)
LAMSADE – CNRS
(http://www.lamsade.dauphine.fr/)
Table of Contents
Collaborative Network Platform for Multi-site Production............. 1
Ant´onio Arrais-Castro, Maria Leonilde R. Varela,
Goran D. Putnik, and Rita A. Ribeiro
A Conceptual Model for MRP IV .................................. 14
Manuel D´ıaz-Madron˜ero, Josefa Mula, and David Peidro
Conceptualising the Mass Customisation Decision-Making Process
in Collaborative Supply Chain Networks ............................ 26
Andrew C. Lyons, Jorge E. Hern´andez, Lucy Everington, and
Dong Li
Combining FDSS and Simulation to Improve Supply Chain
Resilience ....................................................... 42
Isabel L. Nunes, Sara Figueira, and V. Cruz Machado
Training Clinical Decision-Making through Simulation ................ 59
Cecilia Dias Flores, Marta Rosecler Bez, Ana Resp´ıcio, and
Jo˜ao Marcelo Fonseca
DSS for Winemaker: A Dynamic Modeling Approach ................. 74
Hassan Ait Haddou, Guy Camilleri, and Pascale Zarat´e
Collaborative Dynamic Decision Making: A Case Study from B2B
Supplier Selection................................................ 88
G. Campanella, A. Pereira, Rita A. Ribeiro, and
Maria Leonilde R. Varela
New Belief Function Based Methods for Multi-Criteria
Decision-Making ................................................. 103
Jean-Marc Tacnet and Jean Dezert
Support to Collaboration for Wealth and Estate Planning Using
the SEPlanS Platform ............................................ 121
Isabelle Linden, Jean-Marie Jacquet, Gustavo Ospina, and
Mihail O. Staicu
A Knowledge System for Integrated Production Waste Elimination
in Support of OrganisationalDecision Making ....................... 134
Shaofeng Liu, Fenio Annansingh, Jonathan Moizer, Li Liu, and
Wei Sun