A Social-Academic Network Analysis of the EURO Working Group on DSS

This paper addresses some aspects of the social network analysis (SNA) performed on the social-academic network that was implemented for the EURO Working Group on Decision Support Systems (EWG-DSS). The EWG-DSS network is populated with over 105 members of the group and was defined with the objective of analysing and representing the various relationships that academically link the group members, as well as of evaluating the group’s collaboration dynamics since its foundation in 1989. This paper shows some graphical representations and discusses their corresponding interpretation and analytical data. This work is part of the study being carried out within the underlying project of the EWGDSS social-academic network, aiming at understanding how the group interact, as well as encouraging new research and promoting further collaboration among the EWG-DSS group members.