Special Issue on New Frontier on Information Systems and Technologies

The special issue brings together a few selected papers from the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (ICIST 2015), held in Istanbul, Turkey during March 21 23, 2015. The International Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (ICIST) is a forum for researchers, developers, and practitioners in the information systems and computer science fields. The ICIST conferences have been held annually since ICIST’11 (Tebessa, Algeria) in 2011, followed by ICIST’12 (Sousse, Tunisia), ICIST’13 (Tangier, Morocco), ICIST’14 (Valencia, Spain), and), and ICIST’15 (Istanbul, Turkey). The aim of the ICIST is to report on the progress and development of methodologies, technologies, planning and implementation, tools, and standards in information systems and computer science. The conference also examines socio-economic aspects, impacts and success factors of information systems. ICIST brings together leading academics and professionals in information systems from around the world. It aims at providing a platform for discussions on issues that take into consideration the social and technological aspects of information systems. We would like to express our appreciation to all of those who have contributed to this special issue as author and reviewers. The following eight articles address a wide range of issues related to the design, development and use of information systems in organizations from a multidisciplinary perspective. The first paper, “Decision Support Systems Application Development Trends (2002 – 2012)” (Eyong Kim and Sean Eom) present a new survey which provides new approaches to the design and development of DSSs published in peer reviewed journals. DSS applications were searched using the online database ABI/INFORM complete, which is available on the web through ProQuest. The collected 80 specific DSS applications, which were published in 41 journals, were analyzed to examine the development pattern of DSS in the time period of 2002-2012. This paper summarizes the survey results according to the area of application, the year of publication in each area of application, the distribution of underlying decision support tools in DSSs, a classification based on Alter’s taxonomy, and the management level (operational, tactical, or strategic) for which the DSS was designed. The second paper, “Incorporating the Negotiation Process in Urban Planning DSS” (Benatia, et al.), proposes a new cooperation and negotiation protocol based on the principals of the Contact Net Protocol (CNP). The suggested negotiation protocol is used to solve one of the problems in the context of the city planning which is the problem of election of urban projects. Our proposed protocol is intended for the decision makers in order to help them resolve the problem of the evaluation and the selection of the best urban project without the need to be together in a decision urban room. Cooperation in multi-agent systems (MAS) is necessary in order to perform complex tasks and lead MASs towards Special Issue on New Frontier on Information Systems and Technologies