Multiple Criteria Decision Making
The International Society
Mapping 25 Years of MCDM Research: A Scopus-based Analysis of Society Members (2001-2025) Over the past 25 years, the MCDM field has evolved from a specialized niche into a globally distributed, rapidly expanding, and increasingly application-driven research field. Drawing on data from the Scopus database covering publications authored by members of the International Society on … Read more
The bylaws of the Society were accepted at the Business Meeting of the Society in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, on June 11, 1998. Amendments to the Bylaws Amendments were made to the bylaws with the approval of the majority of members attending, at the Business Meeting of the Society in Hamburg, Germany, on August 6, 2015. The … Read more
Business Meetings are organized at International Conferences, every two years. The reports of the proceedings of the Business Meetings since 2004 are available electronically.
Below is the list of all the Presidents of the International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making and of the Special Interest Group that preceded the Society.
José Rui Figueira, President of the SocietyInstituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de LisboaPresident (at) mcdmsociety.org Portugal 2024-2028 Fouad Ben Abdelaziz, Past Meeting Ex-OfficioNeoma Business School France 2024-2026 Carlos Coello CoelloCINVESTAV-IPN Mexico 2019-2028 Matthias Ehrgott, Past PresidentLancaster University UK 2024-2028 Salvatore GrecoUniversity of Catania Italy 2017-2026 Gülsah Karakaya, Newsletter EditorMiddle East Technical Universitynewsletter (at) mcdmsociety.org Turkey 2024-2028 … Read more
MCDM can be defined as the study of methods and procedures by which concerns about multiple conflicting criteria can be formally incorporated into the management planning process. The purposes of the Society are to develop, test, evaluate and apply methodologies for solving multiple criteria decision making problems, to foster interaction and research in the scientific … Read more
Part of the history of the Multiple Criteria Decision Making, the International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making, and related activities from Profs. Ralph E. Steuer and Stan Zionts (with assists from Murat Köksalan, Kaisa Miettinen and Jyrki Wallenius). Early Roots The earliest known reference relating to Multiple Criteria Decision Making can be traced to … Read more