List of Candidates for Elections 2022
The International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making
Executive committee election for the term 2022-2026
The Executive Committee (EC) of the Society is the body that makes the major decisions of the Society.
The terms of four members, namely Salvatore Greco, Hsu-Shih Shih, Kathrin Klamroth and Jyrki Wallenius have ended.
Below is the list of eight candidates that stand for election. The candidates who receive the most votes, respectively, will be elected for the EC. All members are elected for four years.
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The voting period will start on September 6, 2022 and end on September 30, 2022 at midnight MEST (UTC/GMT+2:00). All those who are members of the Society by July 31, 2022 can vote.
Salvatore Greco
I took my degree in 1988 at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Catania where I ave been a researcher since 1994, associated professor since 1998 and full professor since 2001. I have been teaching Decision Theory, General Mathematics and Financial Mathematics. My research regards Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding (MCDA). Together with Benedetto Matarazzo and Roman Slowinski, I proposed the Dominance-based Rough Set Approach (DRSA), which permits to apply rough set theory within MCDA. Together with other colleagues, I have also proposed Robust Ordinal Regression (ROR), which permits to take into account the whole set of value functions representing the preference information given by the decision maker. I have been working also on application of non-additive integrals to MCDA proposing, together with Benedetto Matarazzo and Silvio Giove, a new powerful generalization of the Choquet integral: the level dependent Choquet integral. Together with José Figueira and Matthias Ehrgott, I am the editor of a state of art collection in MCDA, published by Springer in 2005, which has become a reference book receiving 1281 citations according to Google Scholar: J. Figueira, S. Greco, M. Ehrgott (eds.) (2005). Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis: State of the Art Surveys. NEW YORK: Springer.
Dylan Jones
I am a Professor of Operational Research in the School of Mathematics and Physics, and Director of the Centre for Operational Research and Logistics. I have a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics with Operational Research from the University of Southampton and a PhD in Operational Research, also from the University of Portsmouth. I have been involved in research, teaching, and course development in the field of Logistics and Operational Research over the past twenty-five years. My area of research is the theory of making decisions in the presence of multiple, conflicting objectives.
I am interested in a wide range of applications but have specifically worked in applications to supply chain management and logistics, maritime logistics, healthcare, renewable energy and sustainability. I attend international conferences in either general Operational Research or specialised in Multi-Criteria Decision Making. My current research is funded by the European Union and I have particular research connections in France, Spain, and Brazil. I am the author of over 50 publications in international journals and a Springer research book on goal programming.
Kathrin Klamroth
Kathrin Klamroth leads the optimization group at the University of Wuppertal, Germany. The team has a strong research focus on multiple objective optimization, spanning the bridge from modelling and theoretical analysis to decision making tools and algorithm development and testing, and covering discrete and continuous optimization problems.
Kathrin received her PhD at the University of Braunschweig in Germany in 1994. In 2002, she attained her Habilitation at the University of Kaiserslautern. After six years at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, she moved to Wuppertal in 2008. She has held visiting positions at Clemson University (USA), the University of Copenhagen (Denmark) and Paris Dauphine University (France). Kathrin has been an executive committee member of the International Society on MCDM from 2006-2010 and since 2013. She was a member of the MCDM dissertation award committee 2011 and 2013. She has co-organized the MCDM track at several EURO and EMO meetings and she is co-organizer of a Dagstuhl seminar on MCDM and EMO in 2015, 2018 and 2020. In 2019, Kathrin received the Georg Cantor award of the Society on MCDM.
Janusz Miroforidis
Janusz Miroforidis is an assistant professor at the Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences. He received his M.S. degree in computer science from the University of Wrocław, and his Ph.D. from the Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Science for his research in soft computing and multiple-criteria decision-making methods for management needs. He is an active researcher working in the area of large-scale multiobjective op timization as well as in the area of multiple-criteria decision-making and soft computing methods. His major research interests include human-machine interaction in multiple-criteria decision-making as well as approximate methods for solving large-scale multiobjective optimization problems. He has published 30 scientific works, including one monograph. He has more than 25 years of experience in the information technology industry, backed by working for large international companies. He is particularly interested in applying operational research and artificial intelligence methods to solve practical problems. He has participated in many R&D projects for various industries. He also advises company boards on developing innovative solutions.
Hatem Masri
I am professor of business analytics and dean of the college of business administration at the university of Bahrain, Kingdom of Bahrain. I am president of the African Federation of Operations Research Societies (AFROS). I received a PhD in management science in 2004 and Master in operations research in 1999 from the university of Tunis, Tunisia. My research interests include business analytics, supply chain management, financial engineering and Islamic finance. I published more than 30 articles and 6 books among them a textbook in Islamic business administration. I am member of INFORMS, IEEE and the Tunisian Decision Aid Society and volunteer/mentor with the AACSB. The best way to get to know me is by reading information that appears on this web site. I am ready to share with you my experience and my knowledge. I hope to hear from you soon.
Danielle Morais
Danielle Costa Morais is an associate professor in the Management Engineering Department at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE) since 2007, Director of Post-Graduate Program of Management Engineering at UFPE (2008-2010 and 2013-currently), Director of the research group on Decision and Negotiation for Water Management (DNW) and reseacher member of the CDSID (Center for Decision Systems and Information Development). She is Civil Engineering and received her Master and PhD degrees in Management Engineering from UFPE, Brazil. She has been awarded a grant of Productivity in Research by CNPq (Brazilian NRC). Her research interest includes MCDM/A, Group Decision and Negotiation, Operational Research and Water Resources Management. She co-authored over 60 scientific papers in reviewed journals. She serves on the editorial board a few scholarly journals, such as: Group Decision and Negotiation. She has been an active member of the main societies related to Operational Research, MCDM/A and Group Decision, and served the INFORMS MCDM section as a board member.
Andrea Raith
I am a Senior Lecturer at the University of Auckland where I have been a member of the Department of Engineering Science since 2009. My research spans from various applications in transport, health-care and task scheduling, to more theoretical work particularly on algorithms for various multi-objective optimisation problems. My research interests include multi-objective shortest path and network flow problems and algorithms for transport problems such as equilibrium problems arising in traffic assignment. One focus in the past was algorithms for multi-objective robust optimisation problems, and I currently work on the integration of multi-objective optimisation methods and problem decomposition approaches. Another interest is optimisation problems in the context of transport and transport modelling, especially sustainable transport options, energy efficiency, electric vehicles, public transportation and active transport modes.
Living and working in New Zealand, I am well placed to represent the interests of the MCDM community in the Asia-Pacific region, while having strong connections to other researchers in our community world-wide. I am also long-term council member of the Operations Research Society of New Zealand, and currently Vice President.
More information is available here: https://profiles.auckland.ac.nz/a-raith/about
Ralph Steuer
Ralph E. Steuer is the Sanford Family Distinguished Chair of Business in the Department of Finance of the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia. He received an Sc.B. (electrical engineering) from Brown University, an MBA (accounting & finance) from Cornell University, and a Ph.D. in Business Administration (quantitative methods) from the University of North Carolina. Dr. Steuer is the author of Multiple Criteria Optimization: Theory, Computation and Application, the ADBASE multiple objective linear programming package, and over 100 research articles. Dr. Steuer's research interests are in multiple-attribute portfolio theory, efficient sets and surfaces, multiple objective programming, and multiple criteria decision making.
A recipient of a Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of North Carolina and the Lamar Dodd Award for Creative Research in the Sciences from the University of Georgia Dr. Steuer was a co-founder and has served as President of the International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making, a society that now has over 2,800 members from almost 100 countries. In addition, having lectured in 50 countries, Dr. Steuer has been an advisor to universities in emerging countries on the establishment of curricula in management and has been Honorary Dean of the School of Industrial Management at the Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology in Vietnam since 1991.
Prior to joining the University of Georgia, Dr. Steuer was a Visiting Associate Professor at Princeton University (one year) and on the faculty of the University of Kentucky (eight years).