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To the memory of Professor Yoshikazu Sawaragi (19 December, 1916 -- 22 October, 2011)
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10th International Conference on Operations Research
25th Conference of European Chapter on Combinatorial Optimization, ECCO2012
10th International Conference on Multiple Objective Programming and Goal Programming, MOPGP2012
10th EUROPT Workshop on Advances in Continuous Optimization
25th European Conference on Operational Research, EURO2012
IPMU 2012: 14th International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems
21st International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, ISMP2012
Workshop on Computational Optimization WCO'2012
INFORMS Annual Meeting 2012
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The next conference of the International Society on MCDM will be organized in Málaga, Spain on June 17-21, 2013.
It is deeply sad for me to inform the community of MCDM that Professor Yoshikazu Sawaragi passed away at the age of 94 in Kyoto, Japan, 22 October, 2011. He organized 7-th International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making, Kyoto, 1986. His photograph can be seen in the book Multiple Criteria Decision Making From Early History to the 21st Century , by Koksalan, Wallenius and Zionts, World Scientific, 2011 (p.67).
He made tremendous contributions to the field of control engineering and system sciences, in particular as a worldwide distinguished leader (e.g., IFAC President from 1978 to 1981, IFAC advisor since 1984, IFAC fellow in 2005, President of Association of Automatic Control Engineers, Japan (presently, Institute of Systems, Control and Information Engineers) from 1971 to 1976, President of Society of Instrument of Control Engineers from 1987 to 1989; In 1969 he became Member of Science Council of Japan).
He became a full professor of Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University in 1950. He played a major role to launch a new Department of Applied Mathematics and Physics, Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University in 1959 to educate students in new areas of applied mathematics, control theory, computer, operations research, and applied physics. After the retirement of Kyoto University, he established the Japan Institute of Systems Research (JISR) in 1980 to play a role as a bridge between academia and industry. Especially, he started a joint program between JISR and IIASA in 1987 on the Development of interactive modeling and decision support systems.
For his contributions in Systems and Control Engineering, he received from the Japanese Government the Medal with Purple Ribbon in 1980, and the Second Class Order of Sacred Treasure in 1988. Furthermore, he received Kyoto Prefecture Culture Achievement Award in 1994.
He loved the Japanese word shinayaka which literally means soft and hard (or, flexible and robust). There is no English word corresponding to this self-contradictory word at a glance. The idea of shinayaka seems to be originated from the oriental (in particular, Japanese) philosophy. Non-Japanese people can guess the meaning from an allegory that branches of willow are never broken even by strong wind and just swing with it. He advocated that systems engineering should be shinayaka. To this end, he insisted the importance of harmonized collaboration of human beings and computers. He kept a close observation on human beings. He named his last institute (NPO) Shinayaka Systems Engineering. MCDM should play an important role along this approach.
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The 10th International Conference on Operations Research will be held in Havana (Cuba), from March 6 to March 9, 2012. The conference is jointly organized by the University of Havana, and the University of Paris 1, and it is chaired by Prof. Sira Allende. Call for papers ends on December 20, 2011. For further details, visit the webpage of the conference, or contact Prof. Sira Allende.
The 25th Conference of European Chapter on Combinatorial Optimization, ECCO2012, will be held in Antalya (Turkey) from April 26 to April 28, 2012. The conference is organized by the Middle East Technical University and the Izmir University of Economics, and it is co-chaired by Profs. Gerhard Wilhelm Weber and Refail Kasimbeyli. Call for papers ends on February 1, 2012. For further details, visit the webpage of the conference.
The 10th International Conference on Multiple Objective Programming and Goal Programming, MOPGP2012, will be held in Niagara Falls (Canada), jointly with the 54th Annual conference of the Canadian Operational Research Society, from June 11 to June 13, 2012. The conference is chaired by Prof. Belaid Aouni. Call for papers ends on March 1, 2012. For further details, visit the webpage of the conference.
The 10th EUROPT Workshop on Advances in Continuous Optimization will be held in Siauliai (Lithuania), from July 5 to July 7, 2012. The conference is organized by the Siauliai University, and it is chaired by Prof. Mirjam Duer. Call for papers ends on April 30, 2012. For further details, visit the webpage of the conference.
The 25th European Conference on Operational Research, EURO2012, will be held in Vilnius (Lithuania), from July 8 to July 11, 2012. The conference is organized by the Vilnius University, and it is chaired by Prof. Leonidas Sakalauskas. Call for papers ends on February 29, 2012. For further details, visit the webpage of the conference.
The 14th International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems will be held in Catania (Italy), from July 9 to July 13, 2012. The conference is organized by the University of Catania, and it is chaired by Prof. Salvatore Greco. Call for papers ends on December 10, 2011. This conference is endorsed by the International Society on MCDM. For further details, visit the webpage of the conference.
21st International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, ISMP2012, will be held in Berlin (Germany), from August 19 to August 24, 2012. The conference is organized by the Technical University of Berlin, and it is chaired by Prof. Martin Skutella. There will be a tream devoted to multiobjective optimization. Call for papers ends on April 15, 2012. For further details, visit the webpage of the conference.
The Workshop on Computational Optimization WCO'2012 will be held in Wroclaw (Poland), from September 9 to September 12, 2012. The workshop is a FedCSIS event, organized by the Wroclaw University of Technology, and it is chaired by Prof. Mariusz Paradowski. Call for papers ends on April 22, 2012. For further details, visit the webpage of the conference.
The INFORMS Annual Meeting 2012 will be held in Phoenix (USA), from October 14 to October 17, 2012. The conference is organized by the Arizona State University, and it is chaired by Prof. Ronald G. Askin. There will be a cluster about MCDM. Call for papers ends on May 15, 2012. For further details, visit the webpage of the conference.
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Last but not least we wish to remind you that Ralph E. Steuer, Craig Piercy and Rudolf Vetschera have been doing a lot of work with membership database management and we want to take this opportunity to thank them for their most valuable work and effort!
The first business meeting of the INFORMS Section on MCDM has been held in Austin. The presentation and minutes of the business meeting can be found at the section's Web site. With this meeting, the establishment of the MCDM section was completed. The elected officers for the year 2011 were Murat Köksalan (president), Jyrki Wallenius (vice President) and Esma Gel (secretary/treasurer). Besides, the elected board members are Stan Zionts (3-year term), Jim Dyer (3-year term), Harold Benson (2-year term), Hannele Wallenius (2-year term), Mark Karwan (1-year term) and Larry Seiford (1-year term).
The Section enjoyed an enrollment of over 100 members (124 as of November 23, 2010) in a short period of time. To become a member, visit: https://online.informs.org/informsssa/informsmempubssarenew.choose?p_cust_id=1234.
One of the section's main goals for 2011 is to make a grand presence at the INFORMS conference in Charlotte, NC, November 13-16, 2011. They have already agreed with INFORMS to sponsor an MCDM cluster and Prof. Murat Köksalan agreed to act as the cluster chair. They would like to have a large number of high quality sessions in this cluster. Please inform Prof. Köksalan directly if you are interested in organizing a session or presenting a paper in one of the sessions of this cluster. Besides, they are also discussing with the organizers to organize tutorials on MCDM.
Besides, during MCDM2011, Murat Köksalan and Birsen Karpak became president-elect and vice-president of finance, respectively, because they were the only candiates for these positions.
Results of the Elections in 2004
In 2004, the members of the International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making elected Jyrki Wallenius as the President-Elect and the following persons to the International Executive Committee for four-year terms 2004-2008:
| Francisco Ruiz (University of Málaga, Spain) Secretary (at) mcdmsociety.org |