@inproceedings{b5769921f3a84fe599e2c721730e2c4c,
title = "The development roadmap of the EWG-DSS collab-net project: A social network perspective of DSS research collaboration in Europe",
abstract = "It is well-known that social network analysis has been playing an increasingly important role in evaluating scientific research collaboration within publication databases. This paper presents the development roadmap of the EWG-DSS Collab-Net Project of the EURO Working Group on Decision Support Systems. The current project serves as a means for a social network perspective of research collaboration within the Decision Support Systems community in Europe. The major key variable used for the network analysis is co-authorship. The network was designed to show the collaboration dynamics among the researchers, members of the EWG-DSS group. Newly in this paper is the specification of the ontology model to be used within the collaboration research network, stating its benefits to the project. The study provides a clear understanding of the community{\textquoteright}s strengths, in terms of key players, strong links and well researched topic areas; as well as weaknesses such as weak links and isolated researchers. The main goal of the project{\textquoteright}s network analysis is to allow researchers to seek opportunities for future collaboration within the DSS communities. Results achieved so far are briefly described within the paper.",
keywords = "Co-authorship, EWG-DSS, Ontology Model, Project EWG-DSS-Collab-Net, Scientific Research Collaboration, Social Network Analysis",
author = "F{\'a}tima Dargam and Isabelle Linden and Shaofeng Liu and Ribeiro, {Rita A.} and Pascale Zarat{\'e}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013.; Euro Working Group Workshop on Decision Support Systems, EWG-DSS 2012 ; Conference date: 08-07-2012 Through 11-07-2012",
year = "2013",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-642-41077-2_1",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783642410765",
series = "Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "1--18",
editor = "Hernandez, {Jorge E.} and Shaofeng Liu and Boris Delibasic and Pascale Zarate and Fatima Dargam and Rita Ribeiro",
booktitle = "Decision Support Systems II - Recent Developments Applied to DSS Network Environments - EuroWorking GroupWorkshop, EWG-DSS 2012, Revised Selected and Extended Papers",
address = "Germany",
}