[Opt-net] 2nd call for papers: 20th International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making in Chengdu, China

[Kaisa Miettinen]

Second Call for Papers
The 20th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION MAKING

LOCATION:  Chengdu/Jiuzhaigou, China
DATES: June 21-26, 2009

Deadline for Abstract of Conference Papers: March 25, 2009

Theme: New State of MCDM in 21st Century

http://www.mcdm2009.cn/

Hosted by University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
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After the conference, participants of the conference will be invited to
submit the extended version of their paper for further review in special
issues of Journal of Multi Criteria Decision Analysis, Decision Support
Systems (SCI-indexed), Annals of Operations Research (SCI-indexed),
International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making
(SCI-indexed), and   Information Sciences (SCI-indexed).

Contributors of Abstract of Conference Papers are encouraged to submit a
full-length paper to a post conference proceeding in Lecture Notes in
Economics and Mathematical Systems.
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The International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making has
emerged as the global forum dedicated to the sharing of original research
results and practical development experiences among researchers and
application developers from different multiple criteria decision making
related areas such as multiple criteria decision aiding, multiple criteria
classification, ranking, and sorting, multiple objective continuous and
combinatorial optimization, multiple objective metaheuristics, multiple
criteria decision making and preference modeling, fuzzy multiple criteria
decision making.
The theme for MCDM 2009 is "New State of MCDM in 21st Century". The
conference seeks solutions to challenging problems facing the development of
multiple criteria decision making, and shapes future directions of research
by promoting high quality, novel and daring research findings. With the MCDM
conference, these new challenges and tools can easily be shared with the
multiple criteria decision making community. MCDM 2009 will invite a number
of well-known MCDM scholars to deliver keynote or plenary speeches which
include their experiences with the remarkable MCDM history, important
contributions to MCDM and/or creative thinking towards the future
development of MCDM. As the tradition of MCDM Conference Series, the main
conference sessions on June 22-26, 2009 have an equal emphasis on all
aspects of MCDM related topics that will affect scientific, social and
economic development of the 21st century. Moreover, MCDM 2009 creates new
tutorial and workshop programs on June 21, 2009 before the main conference.
The tutorial program of this conference will be invitation-based and cover
emerging MCDM technologies and the state-of-the-art of MCDM developments.
The workshop program will focus on new research challenges and initiatives.

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Important Dates
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For Abstract of Conference Papers:
Electronic submission of abstracts of conference papers: March 25, 2009
Notification of acceptance: April 10, 2009 Final advanced registration: May
10, 2009

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Call for Abstract of Conference Papers
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As part of tradition at MCDM Conferences, contributors to the main
conference sessions at MCDM 2009 should submit abstracts. The author's
names, addresses, phone numbers and e-mails must be listed starting with the
presenting author. Electronic submission (in MS Word or LaTex format) to
mcdm2009 at yahoo.com is strongly preferred. Abstracts will be reviewed to
determine whether acceptance for presentation is appropriate. A common style
is important, since Conference Proceedings of abstracts will be published. A
hard copy of the abstracts will be distributed with the Conference Program.
After the conference, contributors are encouraged to submit a full-length
paper to either a post conference proceeding that will be published in 2010
by Springer's the Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems or
several special issues of academic journals in the specified format. Such
papers will be peer-reviewed for their qualification of publication.
Papers from all areas of MCDM, in particular those addressing the conference
theme, are welcome to the main conference sessions. The topics include, but
are not limited to

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Topics of Interest
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Foundations of MCDM
MCDM algorithms and methods
MCDM application on pattern recognition and trend analysis MCDM Applications
in government, health or public affairs MCDM based data mining approaches
MCDM in electronic commerce, web and intrusion detection MCDM software MCDM
Theory and practice of fictitious economy Multi-objective integer or linear
programming Multiple attribute utility theory Multiple criteria
classification, ranking, and sorting Multiple criteria decision aiding
Multiple criteria in finance, marketing, operations or human resource
management Multiple objective continuous and combinatorial optimization
Multiple objective metaheuristics Analytic hierarchy process or analytic
network process Artificial Intelligence and MCDM Asset liability management
Bioinformatics and MCDM Complexity, efficiency, and scalability issues in
MCDM Conflict resolution, negotiation, and group decision support Data
envelopment analysis Data mining and knowledge management Decision support
systems Dynamic programming Environmental analysis and MCDM Fuzzy multiple
criteria decision making Fuzzy Systems and MCDM Game theory and MCDM Goal
programming Group decision making Habitual Domain Analysis Intelligent
decision support systems Issues of MCDM measurement Outranking techniques
Preference modelling Regional economy development Resource allocation Risk
and uncertainty Risk management by MCDM Social and behavioral studies of
MCDM processes Statistics and probability in MCDM

For further information, see http://www.mcdm2009.cn/

Please, forward information about this conference to those who may be
interested!

On behalf of the organizers, Kaisa Miettinen

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Professor Kaisa Miettinen, PhD
Dept. of Mathematical Information Technology P.O. BOx 35 (Agora)
FI-40014 University of Jyvaskyla, Finland

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