Awards
The Executive Committee of the Society decides which of the following Awards will be given: the MCDM Gold Medal; the Edgeworth-Pareto Award; and the Georg Cantor Award. All members of the Society are eligible to make nominations to the Awards Committee, in a manner the Committee shall specify. The Awards will be presented at International Conferences; Honorees are expected to give a lecture at the Conference at which they receive Awards.
The MCDM Gold Medal
This is the highest honor that the International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making bestows upon a scholar who, over a distinguished career, has markedly contributed to the theory, methodology, practice and professional development of MCDM.
The MCDM Edgeworth-Pareto Award
This is the highest distinction that the International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making bestows upon a researcher or practitioner of MCDM who has demonstrated a high level of creativity in developing novel areas of application of MCDM and associated methodology, markedly influencing the form of MCDM practice.
The Georg Cantor Award
This is the highest form of recognition that the International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making bestows upon a researcher who has personified the spirit of independent inquiry in developing innovative ideas in the theory and methodology of MCDM, significantly expanding the tools available to MCDM practice.
| MCDM Gold Medal | Edgeworth-Pareto Award | Georg Cantor Award | |
| 1992 | Stanley Zionts | Po-Lung Yu Milan Zeleny | Andrzej P. Wierzbicki |
| 1994 | Oleg I. Larichev | Jyrki Wallenius | Pekka Korhonen |
| 1995 | Bernard Roy | Hirotaka Nakayama | Yacov Y. Haimes |
| 1997 | Ralph E. Steuer | Roman Słowinski | – |
| 1998 | Ralph L. Keeney Howard Raiffa | Jared L. Cohon | Tomas Gal |
| 2000 | Thomas Saaty | Alexander Lotov | Philippe Vincke |
| 2002 | Jaap Spronk | – | Masatoshi Sakawa |
| 2004 | William W. Cooper | Raimo P. Hämäläinen | Harold P. Benson |
| 2006 | Murat Köksalan | James S. Dyer | Carlos Romero |
| 2008 | Theodor J. Stewart | Kalyanmoy Deb | Valerie Belton |
| 2009 | Benedetto Matarazzo Detlof von Winterfeldt | Gwo-Hshiung Tzeng | Yong Shi |
| 2011 | – | Matthias Ehrgott | Tetsuzo Tanino |
| 2013 | Salvatore Greco | Constantin Zopounidis | João Climaco |
| 2015 | Yannis Siskos | Peter J. Fleming | David E. Bell |
| 2017 | José Rui Figueira | Wojtek Michalowski | Kaisa Miettinen |
| 2019 | Margaret M. Wiecek Michalis Doumpos | Ahti Salo | Kathrin Klamroth |
| 2022 | Simon French | Igor Linkov | Adiel Teixeira de Allmeida |
| 2024 | Serpil Sayin | Carlos Coello Coello | Francisco Ruiz |
The MCDM Doctoral Dissertation Award
The executive committee of the International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making decided to introduce the MCDM Doctoral Dissertation Award, to the best dissertation related to MCDM, in 2011. After the first award was given in Jyväskylä (Finland), the executive committee decided to continue awarding it also in later conferences.
| Year | Awardee |
| 2011 | Özgür Özpeynirci |
| 2013 | Miłosz Kadziński |
| 2015 | Sebastiaan Breedveld |
| 2017 | Britta Schulze |
| 2019 | Fritz Bökler |
| 2022 | Ana Sara Costa |
| 2024 | Bhupinder Singh Sain |