The ICDSST 2025 Conference is proud to feature invited speakers who will share their expertise on key topics in decision support systems.
Stay tuned as we announce additional speakers in the coming weeks!
Fátima Dargam
REACH Innovation
CEO & Research Managing Director / Co-founder
Honorary Chair and Invited Speaker
Dr. Fátima Dargam is an expert in Decision Support Systems and Artificial Intelligence, with a Ph.D. from Imperial College London and extensive experience as an R&D IT Manager at SimTech in Austria. Her work spans intelligent decision-making, multi-agent systems, and big data analytics, with significant contributions through research, publications, and her role as a founding member and former coordinator of the EURO Working Group on DSS.
Pascale Zaraté
Université Toulouse Capitole- IRIT
Full Professor
Honorary Chair and Invited Speaker
Dr. Pascale Zaraté is a Professor at Toulouse 1 Capitole University in France, where she conducts research at the IRIT Laboratory, focusing on Decision Support Systems (DSS), cooperative decision-making, and recommender systems. She earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the LAMSADE laboratory at Paris Dauphine University in 1991. Dr. Zaraté chaired the European Working Group on DSS from 2000 to 2020 and currently serves as Vice-President of the INFORMS Group Decision and Negotiation section. Her research interests encompass distributed and asynchronous decision-making processes, knowledge modeling, and cooperative knowledge-based systems.
Zoran Obradović
Director, Center for Data Analytics and Biomedical Informatics
Temple University
Invited Speaker
Dr. Zoran Obradović is a distinguished professor at Temple University, holding the Laura H. Carnell Professorship of Data Analytics. He serves as the director of the Center for Data Analytics and Biomedical Informatics and holds professorships in both the Department of Computer and Information Sciences and the Department of Statistical Science. His research encompasses data science, machine learning, and biomedical informatics, with a focus on big data analytics, complex systems, and decision support systems. Dr. Obradović has authored over 450 publications, garnering more than 34,000 citations, reflecting his significant impact on the field. He is an elected member of Academia Europaea and a foreign member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Marko Bohanec
Scientific Councillor
Department for Knowledge Tehnologies, Jožef Stefan Institute.
Dr. Marko Bohanec is a prominent computer scientist specializing in decision support systems and multi-attribute decision modeling. He serves as a Scientific Councillor at the Jožef Stefan Institute’s Department of Knowledge Technologies in Ljubljana and is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Nova Gorica. He is renowned for developing the DEX (Decision EXpert) methodology, a qualitative multi-attribute decision modeling approach that integrates multi-criteria decision modeling with rule-based expert systems. Throughout his career, Dr. Bohanec has authored numerous publications and has been cited over 6,800 times, reflecting his significant impact on the field. His research interests include decision analysis, artificial intelligence, expert systems, machine learning, and data mining.