The School of Management of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul ((EA - Escola de Administração da UFRGS – Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul), is proud to host the Eight International Conference on Decision Support Systems - ISDSS'05.

The 8th Conference for the International Society for Decision Support Systems will be held in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. This is the first time this conference is being held in the South American continent. It is also the first major event hosted by combined forces of the Special Interest Group in DSS of the Association of the Information Systems and International Society for Decision Support Systems.


KEYNOTES SPEAKERS

George Wright is Professor of Management at Durham Business School at the University of Durham, UK. He is a psychologist with knowledge of the way individuals and small groups make judgments about the future. George has edited a special issue of the International Journal of Forecasting on the role and validity of judgement in forecasting. His own research on scenario method, Delphi applications, and judgmental forecasting, has appeared in a variety of major journals including Management Science, Strategic Management Journal, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. He is Editor of the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making and an Associate Editor of International Journal of Forecasting and Journal of Forecasting. He is co-author with Paul Goodwin of Decision Analysis for Management Judgment (third edition published in 2004 by Wiley) and an editorial board member of Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis and Decision Support Systems. His consultancy clients include: IBM; ICL; Clerical Medical Investment Group (UK); Philips; NEM Insurance; Link Interchange (UK); Petronas ( the Malaysian national oil company): and the Jordan Ministry of Planning. Much of his consultancy has been focussed on facilitating management teams and multi-agency groupings to anticipate the future - and how it will affect them.


Dr. Pitu B. Mirchandani is a Professor of Systems & Industrial Engineering and Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Arizona; he is the Director of the ATLAS Research Center and is the Salt River Project Professor of Technology, Public Policy and Markets. His educational background includes BS and MS degrees in Engineering from UCLA, a SM degree from MIT in Aeronautics and Astronautics, and a ScD. degree, also from MIT, in Operations Research.
His research interests include stochastic dynamic networks, location theory, decision making under uncertainty and competition, real-time information and control systems and intelligent transportation systems. He has co-authored two books and authored or co-authored over 90 articles in a variety of journals, those that focus on theory, to those on model and algorithm development and those that focus on applications. He has been on the editorial boards of IIE Transactions: Scheduling and Logistics Section, Transportation Science, Journal of Industrial Mathematics, and Journal of Technology, Policy and Management. He is a member of IEEE, INFORMS, IIE, POMS, TRB, and a charter member of ITS-Arizona, and past member of ACM and ITS America.
Dr. Mirchandani has been a PI on a large number of research programs, with a total funding of over seven million dollars in the last ten years. Federal agencies such as NSF, USDOT and FHWA and several state and local transportation agencies such as ADOT, WSDOT and City of Tucson, have supported his work. His recent research projects are on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Real-Time Traffic Adaptive Signal Control, and Remote, Airborne Sensing of Transportation Flows.