Decisioning 2023

The second workshop on “Collaboration in knowledge discovery and decision making.”

DATE: June 21,22,23, 2023

Venue: Popayán, Colombia

Call for Papers

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:

General Chairs


Organizing Committee


Doctoral Symposium Chair


Publicity Chairs

Program Committee Members

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. 

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]

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. 

Organizers