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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
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Special Session on
Data-Driven Multiple Criteria Decision Making
24th International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM 2017)
10-14 July 2017, Ottawa, Canada
Abstract submission deadline: 1 February 2017
Special Session webpage: http://tinyurl.com/
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Scope of session
The emergence of advanced technologies and digital businesses has been changing our world and leading to a situation where physical assets are becoming less essential in business compared to non-physical assets. Data may become the most valuable asset a company has, urging the need to rethink how to tackle modern decision making problems. This special session focuses on this aspect and in particular on Data-Driven Multiple Criteria Decision Making. This session is addressing an important research question:
Given a dataset, how can one formulate and subsequently solve a decision making problem that addresses a particular challenge of interest?
This question can be broken down into many sub-questions/challenges, which define (but do not limit) the scope of the session as follows:
· Given a set of data related to making a decision (in contrast to a formal description e. g. via equations and functions), what are the challenges in defining a multiple criteria problem and how can these challenges be addressed?
· What properties should the dataset possess to facilitate data-driven MCDM?
· How can one account for non-suitable data – for example, datasets that are very large or small, incomplete, consisting of various data types, noisy, etc. – when solving an MCDM problem?
· If a dataset can be modified to aid the decision making process but at high cost, time and/or other resource expenditure, then how can one solve the MCDM problem most efficiently?
· Are novel MCDM techniques required for data-driven decision making?
· What most common real-world applications fall into the category of data-driven MCDM?
Abstract submission
Abstracts with at most 6000 characters can be submitted here: Submit abstracts. Please select the title of this session "Data-Driven Multiple Criteria Decision Making (Allmendinger et al.)" under "Topics". Detailed submission guidelines can be found here.
Important dates
Abstract submission: February 1, 2017
Author notification: March 15, 2017
Early bird registration deadline: April 15, 2017
Last date for registration: June 1, 2017
Special session organizers
Richard Allmendinger (Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK)
Jussi Hakanen (Faculty of Information Technology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
Dmitry Podkopaev (Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)
Karthik Sindhya (Faculty of Information Technology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
More information about the organizers can be found on the session webpage http://tinyurl.com/
Contact
Please feel free contact any of the special session organizers (atrichard.allmendinger@
Best wishes,
The Session Organizers