This book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Decision Support
Systems ICDSST 2018 held in Heraklion Greece in May 2018. The main topic of this year's
conference was Sustainable Data-Driven and Evidence Based Decision Support. The 15 papers
presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 71 submissions. They were
organized in topical sections named: decision support systems for a sustainable society
decision support systems serving the public decision support systems in management and
organization and advances in decision support systems' technologies and methods. The EWG-DSS
series of International Conference on Decision Support System Technology (ICDSST) starting
with ICDSST 2015 in Belgrade were planned to consolidate the tradition of annual events
organized by the EWG-DSS in offering a platform for European and international DSS communities
comprising the academic and industrial sectors to present state-of-the-art DSS research and
developments to discuss current challenges that surround decision-making processes to
exchange ideas about realistic and innovative solutions and to co-develop potential business
opportunities.