Shaofeng Liu

Shaofeng LiuShaofeng Liu is Professor of Operations Management and Decision Making, at University of Plymouth, UK. She is currently the Deputy Director of Doctoral College and previously Associate Head of School for Research and Innovation. She obtained her PhD from Loughborough University, UK, specializing in knowledge modelling for global manufacturing co-ordination decisions. Her main research interest and expertise area includes management decision making, knowledge sharing, intelligent decision systems, decision technology applications in real business context, multi-criteria decision analysis in food and healthcare value chains. She has undertaken a great number of influential, collaborative research projects funded by various UK research councils and European Commission with a total value of over €40M. She has supervised almost 20 PhD students and has been an external examiner for 26 PhD theses in UK, Brazil, France, Spain, South Africa, and UAE. She is a regular keynote speaker at relevant international conferences. As an author, she has published 2 books and over 200 research papers. She is the sole author of the book “Knowledge Management: An Interdisciplinary Approach for Business Decisions” published by Kogan Page in 2020 (ISBN-10: 0749494832, ISBN-13: 978-0749494834). The book was translated and published in Chinese in 2022 by CITIC Press Group. Professor Liu has extensive editorial expereince. She has been senior editor, associate editor and editorial board member for 5 international journals, including IJDSST, JDS (Journal of Decision Systems, Associate Editor, 2011-2016), and Cogent Business and Management (Senior Editor, 2013-2019). She has been guest editor for 12 Special Issues in international journals, including IJDSST, JDS, and Information Systems Frontier (ISF). She has edited 8 books published by Springer and 6 conference/workshop proceedings. She is a regular reviewer for over ten international journals. Professor Liu is the current President of Euro Working Group of Decision Support Systems – An International Society. EWG-DSS was founded in 1989 and provides a platform for researchers, scholars and practitioners to collaborate and share knowledge in the broad area of decison making, decision support, decision technology, decision analysis, and other related aspects. EWG-DSS now has members from around the world and organises its annunal confernece series: International Conference on Decision Support System Technology (ICDSST). The society named its annual conference ICDSST to support the journal IJDSST in 2015. There have been close collaborations between the IJDSST and EWG-DSS for very long time. IJDSST is a journal that has been loved and supported by the EWG-DSS. More information about EWG-DSS and our long connection with IJDSST is available on the society’s official webpage: https://ewgdss.wordpress.com/ For more details of Professor Liu’s work, please refer to her professional website: http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/sliu1

Publications

Knowledge Mobilization for Agri-Food Supply Chain Decisions: Identification of Knowledge Boundaries and Categorization of Boundary-Spanning Mechanisms
Knowledge Mobilization for Agri-Food Supply Chain Decisions: Identification of Knowledge Boundaries and Categorization of Boundary-Spanning Mechanisms
Guoqing Zhao, Shaofeng Liu, Sebastian Elgueta, Juan Pablo Manzur, Carmen Lopez, Huilan Chen. © 2023. 25 pages.
The current world business environment is characterized by increasing uncertainties, complexities, and risks, which require agri-food supply chain (AFSC) managers to respond and...
A Knowledge Network and Mobilisation Framework for Lean Supply Chain Decisions in Agri-Food Industry
A Knowledge Network and Mobilisation Framework for Lean Supply Chain Decisions in Agri-Food Industry
Huilan Chen, Shaofeng Liu, Festus Oderanti. © 2020. 13 pages.
Making the right decisions for food supply chain is extremely important towards achieving sustainability in agricultural businesses. This paper explores that knowledge sharing to...
Towards the Realization of an Integrated Decision Support Environment for Organizational Decision Making
Towards the Realization of an Integrated Decision Support Environment for Organizational Decision Making
Shaofeng Liu, Alex H.B. Duffy, Robert Ian Whitfield, Iain M. Boyle, Iain McKenna. © 2010. 22 pages.
Traditional decision support systems are based on the paradigm of a single decision maker working at a standalone computer or terminal who has a specific decision to make with a...
International Journal of Decision Support System Technology (IJDSST)
International Journal of Decision Support System Technology (IJDSST)
Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, Shaofeng Liu, Biljana Mileva Boshkoska. Est. 2009.
The primary objective of the International Journal of Decision Support System Technology (IJDSST) is to provide comprehensive coverage for DMSS technology issues. The issues can...
Towards the Realization of an Integrated Decision Support Environment for Organizational Decision Making
Towards the Realization of an Integrated Decision Support Environment for Organizational Decision Making
Shaofeng Liu, Alex H.B. Duffy, Robert Ian Whitfield, Iain M. Boyle, Iain McKenna. © 2009. 21 pages.
Traditional decision support systems are based on the paradigm of a single decision maker working at a standalone computer or terminal who has a specific decision to make with a...