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IWoMCDM workshop and MPaR conference
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The Department of Operations Research at the University of Economics in Katowice is organizing the XV National Scientific Conference on Preference Modeling and Risk, which will take place on April 7–8, 2025. For years, this conference has provided an interdisciplinary forum for the exchange of ideas and experiences regarding the latest achievements in the mathematical description and modeling of decision-making processes, with a particular focus on risk.
The Preference Modeling and Risk Conference is accompanied by the international scientific event International Workshop on Multiple Criteria Decision Making, dedicated to the theory and applications of multiple criteria decision-making. The concurrent organization of these two events allows participants to freely attend any thematic sessions of their choice.
In 2025, the conference will be held in Katowice at the University of Economics. On behalf of the chairs of the scientific committee, Prof. Tadeusz Trzaskalik and Prof. Tomasz Wachowicz, we warmly invite you to join us in Katowice in April 2025.
For more information about the conference, please visit: https://mpar.ue.katowice.pl/ and https://iwomcdm.ue.katowice.pl/
GDN 2025 - call for papers (3)
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Between June 15 and 18, 2025, the XXV International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation, organized by INFORMS GDN, will take place in Zaragoza, Spain. The conference focuses on group decision-making and negotiation and serves as a forum for the exchange of ideas among professionals in this field, bringing together researchers and practitioners from all over the world.
For the past ten years, the thematic stream Preference Modeling for Group Decision and Negotiation, chaired by Prof. Danielle Morais Costa (UFPE, Recife, Brazil) and Prof. Tomasz Wachowicz (University of Economics in Katowice, Poland), has been a part of the conference. This track gathers a scientific community conducting research on the use of formal decision-support methods for preference analysis and for organizing and facilitating multi-person decision problems.
We cordially invite you to submit your contributions to the conference and to this thematic track. This year, submissions may take the form of full papers, extended abstracts, or posters.
The Call for Papers for the PMfGDN track can be downloaded via the following link: CFP_GDN_PMfGDN_2025.pdf
More information about the conference and the track can be found on the conference website: https://gdnconference.org/gdn2025/
Miltiple criteria decision-aiding methods and behavioral profile of decision-makres
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Another interesting article by the N.EA team has been published in the journal Operations Research and Decisions. In this article, we conduct a very detailed analysis of the impact of various behavioral characteristics of decision-makers on their use of different multiple criteria decision-aiding (MCDA) methods and their final opinion regarding recommendations and future use of these methods. The conducted empirical study utilized a proprietary online decision support and survey system, and the data from the system was analyzed using a complex structural model that accounts for both direct and indirect influences of exogenous variables on the final assessment of MCDA methods’ functionality.
The article is available directly via the following link: https://ord.pwr.edu.pl/Issues/2024/vol34/p3_15
GDN 2024 Springer Proceedings
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From June 2-5, the 24th conference on Group Decision and Negotiation (GDN) took place in Porto, jointly with the ICDSST conference organized by EWG-DSS. Papers submitted to the GDN conference are typically published in two types of post-conference proceedings: local proceedings, published by the organizer (in 2024, the University of Porto), and Springer proceedings, published as part of the Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series. The co-editor of this year's GDN LNBIP volume (No. 509) was Professor Tomasz Wachowicz, and the entire editorial team included Marta Campos Fereira (University of Porto), Pascale Zarate (University of Toulouse), and Yu Maemura (University of Tokyo). Conference participants received free four-month electronic access to the volume. It is also available for purchase on the publisher's website: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-59373-4
Normalizing criteria weights
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Today, an interesting article by Prof. Ewa Roszkowska and Tomasz Wachowicz was published in the journal Entropy. It discusses the use of entropy concepts for generating weights in a multi-criteria decision-making problem and their impact on the ranking outcomes of decision variants. The work utilized the Hellwig method for positioning EU countries based on the degree of sustainable development in education. It highlights ambiguities stemming from the often-used double normalization in the analytical process (one for determining entropy weights, the other related to the Hellwig method itself) and shows that observing individual decision cases can lead to illusory beliefs about the similarity of results obtained for different analytical combinations. Although in the problem of sustainable development of education, choosing different analytical methods led to different weights but similar rankings of variants, it turned out that this is due to special correlational relationships between evaluation criteria. In cases where these correlations are eliminated, the differences in both weights and rankings can be very significant.
The article is available directly at the link: https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/26/5/365