Towards a Collaboration Network for the EURO Working Group on DSS

The primary objective of this work is to develop a social-academic network for the EURO Working Group on Decision Support Systems (EWG-DSS), using as its defined population, the academic members of the group. Our motivation for carrying out this work comes from the importance and the need of analysing and representing the EWG-DSS various relationships that academically link its current 104 members. With this project, we will be able to evaluate the group’s collaboration dynamics since its foundation in 1989, up to the present moment. As a by-product, we aim to encourage new research and promote further collaboration among the academic members of the group in common projects and jointpublications, since their current areas of research will be revisited and focused by this study. Another expected result of this work is to evaluate social informal relationships among the group members.