Theory and applications of multicriteria decision models

The objective of the session is to attract the participants of IFIP TC7 congress on System modeling and Optimization who work on MCDM, thus promoting the theory of management science, operations research, decision analysis and computer science, as well their applications in:

• Business
• Management
• Economics and finance
• Engineering,
• Natural resources and environment management
• Energy planning
• e-business and e-government
• Accounting and auditing
• Computer science and information technology
• Human resources management
• Information systems management
• Logistics and supply chain management
• Marketing
• Operations management
• Risk analysis and management
• Telecommunications
• Transportation
• In general principles of practice such as problem structuring for multicriteria problems
• Implementation of group decision and negotiation support systems
• etc.

In keeping with the theme of the conference (System Modeling and Optimization) papers dealing with comparisons and integration of a variety of MCDM approaches, as well as links between MCDM and related management science techniques such as data envelopment analysis and systems methodology are also particularly welcome to the session "Theory and applications of multicriteria decision models".
In addition, developments in all of the main directions of MCDM, i. e. multiple objective and goal programming, reference point methods, AHP/ANP, value function methods, outranking and voting procedures, fuzzy sets, non-classical MCDM methods, as well as MCDM software are appreciated to be discussed in the session.

The main aim to the session "Theory and applications of multicriteria decision models" is to:

• increase the awareness of importance regarding the exploitation of the MCDM modelling
• direct on developing MCDM methodologies, models and techniques to deal with decision making problems in numerous fields of applications
• present insights on the latest MCDM developments.