Introduction to Analytics and Decision Support for Ecosystems Minitrack

The aim of this minitrack is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in taking a step beyond what is currently done for presenting, exploring and understanding ecosystems and their data through analytics and decision support. Hence, our call was for perspectives from business, policy, computational sciences, and social sciences. We welcomed submissions across a range of topics, including analytics, ecosystem modeling, simulations, visual support, collaboration systems for multi-actor decision support, network orchestration and system leadership; with multiple research approaches. For the workshop, we received a significant number of high-quality submissions and could ultimately only accommodate 6 papers, concentrating on empirical studies and applications. We would like to thank the reviewers for their invaluable comments, which inspired both the authors as well as the organizers.