IFIP WG8.3 Taskforce

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This Task Force was first proposed and approved at the IFIP WG8.3. Business meeting held at the DSS 2022 conference in Budapest, June 2022

The Task force’s conveners are Patrick Humphreys, London School of Economics and Miguel Imas , Kingston University, UK
Membership of this task group is currently open to all members and friends of IFIP WG8.3

The Task force's CASE STUDY ARCHIVE is now operational:

To access it CLICK HERE

Task Force Formation History 2022-4

During 2022 -2023, the Task Forces’ convenors prepared a position paper (on the activity framework that the Task Force members might like might like to adopt. The title of this Position Paper is Decision Support for Social Innovation Enabling Sustainable Development". It was presented at the IFIP WG8.3 DSS2022 conference and published open access in The Journal of Decision Systems https://doi.org/10.1080/12460125.2022.2073634

This position paper was initially circulated to 9 potential members of the Task Force by the task force convenors, together with an invitation to join the task force, which all accepted, thus forming the initial membership of the Task Force.

During 2023, the task force convenors Patrick Humphreys and Miguel Imas conducted and analysed a pilot case study located within the framework proposed in th position paper for the Task fore. This as paper, titled “Supporting sustainability is the Sail Cargo Alliance Ecosystem” has now been published open access in The Journal of DecisIon Systems (https://doi.org/ 10.1080/12460125.2024.2349407) and presented at the IFIP WG8.3 DSS 2024 conference in Elche, Spain in June 2024.
The Inaugural plenary meeting of the Task Force was held on June 5, 2024 at the IFIP WG8.3 DSS24 conference. l16 members and Friends of IFIP WG8.3 attended this meeting. The members of the task force reviewed the framework proposed in the position paper for the Task forc and pilot case study They expressed the desire to collaboratively augment the description of this framework, to be included in a comprehensive statement the aims and activities the Task Force. Task Force members were invited to contribute and share their suggestions for future contexts for case studies in which members could be involved. The conveners of the Task Force agreed to create and maintain a “live ” archive for this purpose.

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Task Force Reference Publications

The activities of the Task Force will preferably be built on the format we used for the previous successful WG8.3 task force “Learning from Case Studies in Decision Making and Support (organized Dave Sammon and Patrick Humphreys between 2003 and 2007), with the results published as a special issue of TJDS (Vol 17, no 1, 2008). We will seek to have a selection of the scam studies produce by members of tis task force published in The a future special issue of the Journal of Decision Systems. We also have the opportunity to publish a themed selection of our case studies in The European Journal of innovation Management,

These case studies could be located within the general three-level (micro-meso-macro) framework described in ” Decision support for social innovation enabling sustainable development”, presented at the DSS 2022 conference (Journal of Decision Systems, available Open Source at DOI: 10.1080/12460125.2022.2073634.)

You can read this paper here.

Patrick Humphreys and Miguel Imas have prepared a case study example, where the analysis is located within this micro-meso-macro framework, for consideration by the Task Group's members. The case study is called "Supporting Sustainability within the Sail Cargo Alliance Ecosystem".

You can read this case study here

Opportunities for publishing Task Force members' Case Studies

The Task Force has an invitation from Dave Sammon, Managing editor of the Journal of Decision Systems to publish a curated set of case studies emanating from the Task ’s force activities as a special volume of the Journal of Decision Systems (This volume may may be built on the format used for the previous WG8.3 task force “Learning from Case Studies in Decision Making and Support”, organised Dave Sammon and Patrick Humphreys, with the results published as a special issue of TJDS: Vol 17, no 1, 2008).

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