Preface

摘要

This fourth edition of the EURO Working Group on Decision Support Systems (EWG-DSS) includes selected and extended papers from two major events organized by EWG-DSS in 2014, complemented by an open call on the topic "Information and Knowledge Management in Decision Processes." The events include the GDN 2014 conference, co-organized by the EWG-DSS and the INFORMS-GDN group; and the DSS Stream organized by the EWG-DSS in the IFORS international conference. Both events were partially supported and sponsored by the EURO Working Group on Decision Support Systems (EWG-DSS) and the Association of European Operational Research Societies (EURO), respectively, in cooperation with: the Business Administration Department of the University of Macedonia in Greece; SimTech Simulation Technology in Austria; University of Toulouse and the Institut de Research en Infor-matique de Toulouse (IRIT) in France; the University of Liverpool Management School (ULMS) in the UK; UNINOVA Computational Intelligence Research Group (CA3) in Portugal; School of Management, University of Plymouth in the UK; Instituto de Logica Filosofia e Teoria da Ciencia (ILTC) in Brazil; the University of Namur in Belgium; and the University of Belgrade in Serbia.