8th International Conference on Decision Support for Telecommunications and Information Society
September 4-7, 2009, Coimbra, Portugal

GENERAL INFORMATION

Conference objectives
The conference is devoted to issues of decision support in applications to telecommunications and computer networks, generally for information society. This will be the eighth conference on this subject of growing importance, with a tradition starting at the year 2000.
The dynamics of telecommunication sector development and strong competition in this sector in most countries induce telecommunication operators to use new computerised tools. Such tools might help in planning network development, in assessing financial and economic standing, in network design and management, in corporate management including strategic decisions and negotiations of interconnection agreements. The intensive development and decreasing costs of information technology increase the availability of such tools. The aim of this conference is to bring together international experts and researchers working in decision support and related fields, in order to present diverse methods and tools of decision analysis and support as well as knowledge engineering, which are applied in telecommunications industry and information society. Contributions are invited in the following areas:

• Distributed and agent based modelling
• Analytical modelling
• Multicriteria decision support systems
• Data mining
• Data warehousing
• Knowledge engineering, creation and management
• Soft computing
• Security in telecommunications
• New generations of decision support systems
• Decision support for information society
• Planning and management of telecommunications networks

Organisers of the 8th DSTIS Conference:
INESC-Coimbra (Portugal) and National Institute of Telecommunications (Poland).

Conference site
For the first time the conference will be held outside Poland. The Polish organizers accepted a kind invitation of INESC Coimbra, to held the 8th Conference in Coimbra, Portugal, at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra.

Venue Address:
Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra
Av Dias da Silva, 165
3004-502, Coimbra, Portugal
Room "Sala Keynes"

How to get to Coimbra

Language: English