Decisioning 2023

In a knowledge society, the term knowledge must be considered a core resource for organizations. So, beyond to be a medium to progress and to innovate, knowledge is one of our most important resources: something necessary to decide. Organizations that are embracing knowledge retention activities are gaining a competitive advantage. Organizational rearrangements from companies, notably outsourcing, increase a possible loss of knowledge, making knowledge retention an essential need for them. When Knowledge is less shared, collaborative decision-making seems harder to obtain insofar as a “communication breakdown” characterizes participants’ discourse. At best, stakeholders have to find a consensus according to their knowledge. Sharing knowledge ensures its retention and catalyzes the construction of this consensus. 

Our vision of collaborative decision-making aims not only at increasing the quality of the first parts of the decision-making process: intelligence and design but also at increasing the acceptance of the choice. Intelligence and design will be done by more than one individual, and constructed together the decision is more easily accepted. The decided choice will then be shared. Thereby where decision-making could be seen as a constructed model, collaborative decision-making, for us, is seen as the use of socio-technical media to improve decision-making performance and acceptability. The shared decision making is a core activity in a lot of human activities. For example, the sustainable decision-making is the job of not only governments and institutions, but also broader society. Recognizing the urgent need for sustainability, we can argue that to realize the sustainable development, it must be considered as a decision-making strategy. The location of knowledge in the realization of collaborative decision-making has to be regarded insofar as, knowledge sharing leads to improve collaborative decision-making: a “static view” has to be structured and constitutes the “collaborative knowledge”. Knowledge has an important role in individual decision-making, and we consider that for collaborative decision-making, knowledge has to be shared. What is required is a better understanding of the nature of group work”. Knowledge has to be shared, but how do we share knowledge?

Decisioning 2023 is the second workshop on Collaboration in knowledge discovery and decision-making: It has been organized by six research teams from France, Argentina, and Colombia, to explore the current frontier of knowledge and applications in different areas related to knowledge discovery and decision-making. The format of this workshop is hybrid (face-to-face or virtual), aims at the discussion and knowledge exchange between the academy and industry members.

Decisioning 2023 invites submissions on the following topics. Papers presenting original results on research, teaching, and industrial viewpoints are welcome. 

The topics of interest are not exhaustive:

• Knowledge Discovering Applications

• Knowledge Representation and Modeling

• Knowledge Maintenance

• Knowledge Elicitation

• Knowledge-Based Systems

• Knowledge applications to sustainability and agriculture

• Expert Systems 

• Decision Support Systems

• Content Management and Knowledge Management Systems

• Workflow Management Systems

• Ontology Engineering (Modeling, Mapping, Integration)

• Data Mining 

• Knowledge representation and ontologies to sustainability and agriculture

• Natural Language Processing

• Text Mining, Classification and Summarization

• Information Storage, Annotation and Retrieval

• Unstructured and Semi-Structured Data Retrieval

• Data Simulation, Modeling, and Visualization

• Information and Knowledge Integration 

• Knowledge graphs 

• Sustainable decision-making

• Knowledge management and sustainability

General Chairs

• Dr. Cesar Collazos, Universidad del Cauca, Colombia. <ccollazo@unicauca.edu.co>

• Dr. Diego Torres, Universidad Nacional de La Plata-Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina. <diego.torres@lifia.info.unlp.edu.ar>

• Dr. Mario Lezoche, University of Lorraine, France. <mario.lezoche@univ-lorraine.fr>

Organizing Committee

• Dr. Julio Hurtado, Universidad del Cauca, Colombia. <ahurtado@unicauca.edu.co>

• Dr. Freddy Muñoz. Fundación Universitaria de Popayán, <freddy.munoz@docente.fup.edu.co>

• Dr. Julio César Chavarro, Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, Colombia, <jchavar@utp.edu.co>

• Mag. Clara Eugenia Satizábal Serna. Fundación Universitaria de Popayán, <sistemas@fup.edu.co>

• Mag. Daniela Iboth Gutiérrez Idrobo. Fundación Universitaria de Popayán,<daniela.gutierrez@docente.fup.edu.co>

• Mag. Luis Alfonso Vejarano .Fundación Universitaria de Popayán

• Mag. Daniel Andrés Feriz García.Fundación Universitaria de Popayán

• Mag. Sonia Del Consuelo Gaviria Armero. Fundación Universitaria de Popayá

Doctoral Symposium Chair

• Dr. Cesar Collazos, Universidad del Cauca, Colombia. <ccollazo@unicauca.edu.co>

• Dr. Alejandro Fernández, Universidad Nacional de La Plata-Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina <alejandro.fernandez@lifia.info.unlp.edu.ar>

Publicity Chairs

• Dr. Vanessa Agredo Delgado, Corporación Universitaria Comfacauca-Unicomfacauca, Colombia. <vagredo@unicomfacauca.edu.co>

• Dr. Pablo H. Ruiz, Corporación Universitaria Comfacauca-Unicomfacauca, Colombia. <pruiz@unicomfacauca.edu.co>

• Dr. Leandro Antonelli, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina. <leandro.antonelli@lifia.info.unlp.edu.ar>

Articles must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference, or previously published or submitted elsewhere. In addition, they will be scanned using a plagiarism check tool. 

• Full papers – scientific research papers, surveying works and industrial experiences describing significant advances. Submissions must be written in English, 12 to 15 pages long. Authors are requested to remove personal data, the acknowledgements section and any reference that may reveal the identity of the authors. Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ instructions and use the proceedings templates, either for LaTeX, MS Word, for the preparation of their papers.

• Short papers – early results or work in progress with initial findings. Papers should be 4 to 6 pages long, including bibliography. 

Submissions can be written in English or in Spanish, but in the last case Title and Abstract are required also in English.

Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ instructions and use the proceedings templates, either for LaTeX, MS Word, for the preparation of their papers.

All paper submissions (full and short)  will be reviewed by three experts and returned to the author(s).

All papers must be submitted through EasyChair, using PDF format only. Name of the file should be preceded for the type of article [Full] o [Short]

• Doctoral Symposium - Report should be 2 to 4 pages long, including bibliography. Submissions should clearly indicate the category of the submission (Early Stage -ES- or Middle/Late Stage -MS- LS-) and should adopt the following template of sections after the Title and Abstract:

1. Introduction/Motivation: Give a general introduction to the domain/area/topic.

2. State of the Art: Describe existing work in the area, work focusing on the same/similar problems or that might be useful to realizing your Ph.D.

3. Problem Statement and Contributions: Based on motivation and state of the art, formulate the problem you intend to solve, and how you intend to contribute to the research area. 

4. Research Methodology and Approach: Describe the research methodology you will apply in your research, including the different steps from the formulation of your research questions to answering them. Also describe the approach you are taking (or you intend to take for Early Stage submissions) to instantiate the research methodology, hence contributing to solve the problem described in Section 3 and confirm or reject your hypothesis. Discuss how this approach is innovative and novel, and how it is (might be) implemented.

5. Evaluation Plan: Describe your evaluation plan, which is the way you intend to validate your hypothesis, your results, and the value of your approach. For Early Stage submissions, this might be only partially defined, and details might be omitted. For Late Stage submissions, you might have partial evaluation results.

6. Preliminary or Intermediate Results: Being at an intermediate stage, you should report here about the results achieved up to now in applying your approach that might not yet be sufficient for a full evaluation.

7. Conclusions and Learned Lessons: Present your intermediate conclusions and lessons learned. Describe how your results will or might impact research or the world at large. We do neither expect you to have solved all issues nor expect you to have finished your Ph.D. However, we expect you to show an understanding of these issues (although open) and to have a clear plan to address them. This symposium is the best place to discuss these issues and plans with experienced researchers and fellow students to get informed feedback!

8. Ph.D. Stage: Early/Middle or Late

Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ instructions and use the proceedings templates, either for LaTeX, MS Word, for the preparation of their reports.

Submissions can be written in English or in Spanish, in the last case Title and abstract in English and Spanish language are required.

Reports will be evaluated in a closed reviewing process.

All reports must be submitted through EasyChair, using PDF format only. Name of the file should be preceded for the type of article [Doctoral ES] ,[Doctoral MS] or [Doctoral LS]

The accepted articles will be published in the internal memories of the event. Some of the best  articles will be invited to present extended articles in international journals indexed in SCOPUS, WoS and Scielo. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and submit their work.

The presentation of the articles will be hybrid (face-to-face or virtual) and must be done in English

(For papers and reports)

■ Paper submission: April 17, 2023 , new date: April 24, 2023

■ Notification due: May 24, 2023

■ Final version (camera ready): June 05, 2023

■ Workshop (face-to-face and virtual): June 21,22, 23, 2023.