From 1st of August Croatia, Slovenia and Turkey are full members of the Action  after approval of the Management Committee of  FORSYS.

Professor Alexis Tsoukiàs, LAMSADE-CNRS, Université Paris Dauphine, chair of COST Action Algodec – http://cost-ic0602.org/ and key-note speaker at the upcoming FORSYS meeting in Brussels on October 6 has drawn attention to the lack of initiative in the areas of decision sciences in FP7. To promote the area in FP7 and, perhaps more importantly, FP8 Alexis has put together a short draft presenting this area and some opportunities (Decision Sciences and Technologies in the EU Frame Programmes). The idea is to use this document as a basis in order to start some discussion within the concerned COST Actions, among them FORSYS, and arrive by the end of September with an improved version. This will be followed up by a small workshop in November with one or two participants from each of the concerned COST Actions. Therefore, please discuss this document among yourselves. Also, bring your ideas to me, or directly to Alexis Tsoukiàs [tsoukias@lamsade.dauphine.fr] for us to bring with us in the ensuing process.

Two presentations with relevance for the FORSYS work on forest DSS were presented at the 24th European Conference on Operations Research, EURO XXIV Lisbon July 11-14 2010; one with focus more on methodologies for tactical and operational planning – OR in support of forest products management and supply by Alexandra Marques, Mikael Ronnqvist, Sophie D’Amours, and José Borges – and on what methodologies are used in a selection of forest DSS – European forest decision support systems -what do we have and what is missing? by Ola Eriksson.