23rd International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making MCDM 2015 - Bridging Disciplines
August 2nd–7th, 2015, Hamburg, Germany
|01.10.2015|
The submission deadline for the Special Issue of the Computers and Operations Research Journal on "Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization" has been extended to October 15, 2015.
|24.08.2015|
Now the Book of Abstracts can be downloaded. Also a short program is available. Note that each document will be provided in a printed version at the conference.
|13.08.2015|
The photos of the scientific and the social program can be downloaded here.
|31.07.2015|
The Master Track Schedule (also provided in a printed version) and the Session Chair Instructions can be downloaded.
|09.07.2015|
The public transportation ticket will be sent to registered participants who have pre-paid the conference fee by 27th of July at the latest.
|08.07.2015|
The final timetable is online.
|04/2015|
Conference registration opens.
|04/2015|
Apply for free voucher codes for traveling to Hamburg with FlixBus.
|03/2015|
Update on the social program.
IS-SUST: Use of MCDM to support sustainability evaluations: a way forward in multidisciplinary research
The increasing interest in environmental protection and sustainability studies leads scholars to face challenging decision support problems that span across a variety of disciplines and require the integration of a wide array of information and expertise.
The evaluation of progress towards sustainability is based on the identification of assessment criteria that are domain-specific for each sphere of investigation. Each of these spheres has experts and stakeholders who should be included in the decision-making process.
MCDM provides appropriate sets of tools to face these challenges and offers a path for structured decision-making. This session will focus on studies which adopted MCDM frameworks and methods to tackle problems that deal with sustainability-related issues. We encourage the submission of case studies with real involvement of decision makers and other stakeholders, with the aim of showing the potentials and usefulness of MCDM in the effective advancement of our society towards a more sustainable future. Furthermore, we support studies that show successful integration of MCDM with other assessment tools, including (but not limited to) risk assessment and management, life cycle assessment, environmental impact assessment, ecological footprint, urban planning, policy analysis, energy analysis, exergy analysis, benefits assessment, costs analysis and scenario analysis.
More specifically, the papers presented in this session will encourage the description of:
- Inclusion strategy of stakeholders in the decision-making process;
- Selection procedure of sustainability criteria/indicators and assessment tools;
- Rationale for MCDM method(s) choice;
- Results interpretation, validation and communication.