[Opt-net] Call for Abstracts: The 21st International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making

Wed Nov 24 17:44:27 MET 2010

Dear all,

I’d like to draw your attention to the 1st call for abstracts of the 21st International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making, MCDM2011 (to be held in Jyvaskyla, Finland, in June 2011) below. The deadline for abstracts is end of January, 2011.

Those interested in competing for the Wiley Practice Prize should prepare a practice-oriented full paper before end of January, 2011. For further instructions, see www.jyu.fi/mcdm2011/callpapers/Wiley.

Those interested in taking part in the MCDM Doctoral Dissertation Award competition should visit www.jyu.fi/mcdm2011/callpapers/MCDM%20award for further instructions.

The finalists of both the Wiley Practice Prize and the MCDM Doctoral Dissertation Award competition are expected to give a talk in the conference.

I look forward to seeing you in Jyvaskyla in June 2011.

Yours, Kaisa Miettinen

General Chair of MCDM2011

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Professor Kaisa Miettinen, PhD
Industrial Optimization Group
http://www.mit.jyu.fi/optgroup/
Dept. of Mathematical Information Technology
P.O. Box 35 (Agora)
FI-40014 University of Jyvaskyla, Finland

tel. +358 14 2604908, +358 50 3732247 (mob.)
fax: +358 14 2602771
email: kaisa.miettinen at jyu.fi
homepage: http://www.mit.jyu.fi/miettine and
    http://www.mit.jyu.fi/miettine/engl.html
My book: Nonlinear Multiobjective Optimization, Kluwer,
see http://www.mit.jyu.fi/miettine/book/

21st Int. Conf. on MCDM: http://www.jyu.fi/mcdm2011/

1st Call for Abstracts

The 21st International Conference on 
Multiple Criteria Decision Making

Jyväskylä, Finland

June 13-17, 2011

www.jyu.fi/mcdm2011

The biannual Conference aims to bring together researchers and practitioners who address Multiple Criteria Decision Making and Multiobjective Optimization. We expect about 200 participants from all over the world. The Conference theme is Environment and Policy.

We invite abstracts and discussions relevant to the conference theme as well as in any areas of Decision Making, Support and Optimization under Multiple Criteria, especially:

*	Advancements in MCDM Theory
*	New Approaches and Decision Support Systems
*	Multiobjective Optimization
*	Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding
*	Group Decision Making, Negotiations
*	Goal Programming
*	Evolutionary Algorithms and MCDM
*	Multiattribute Utility or Value Theory 
*	Preference Modelling
*	Behavioral Issues in Decision Making
*	Risk and Uncertainty
*	Environmental Decision Making
*	Applications of MCDM
*	New Areas where MCDM is Applied, such as DEA, Finance, etc.
*	Computing and Software for MCDM
*	Teaching MCDM

A participant cannot give more than one talk in the conference (except for discussion sessions). The person who gives a talk, have to submit an abstract.

The abstract must not exceed 350 words (including possible LaTeX commands). If you want to submit an abstract, please visit our web-page for detailed instructions: www.jyu.fi/en/congress/mcdm2011/callpapers/submission.

Important dates:

deadline for abstract submission – January 31, 2011;

acceptance notification – not later than February 28, 2011;

early-bird and talk presenters registration – until March 15, 2011;

deadline for registration – May 1, 2011.

Please note that if you are going to give a talk at the Conference (after having your abstract accepted), you must register not later than March 15, 2011.

Selected full papers will be published (after reviewing) in special issues of several OR journals. They can be submitted after the Conference; the deadline will be announced later.

Wiley Practice Prize will be awarded during the Conference. To apply for it, your full paper (practice oriented) should be submitted according to instructions on our web-site: www.jyu.fi/mcdm2011/callpapers/Wiley . The finalists are expected to give their talks at the Conference before the final decision.

During the conference, the International Society on MCDM will honor the MCDM Doctoral Dissertation Award to a young scholar, who has obtained a doctoral degree in the MCDM and/or related fields. To apply, please visit www.jyu.fi/mcdm2011/callpapers/MCDM%20award .

Conference fees:

Regular: early-bird 375 € (normal 500 €)
Student/PhD student: early-bird 200 € (normal 300 €)
Industry participant: early-bird 500 € (normal 650 €)

The conference fee includes conference materials (e. g. the abstract book); refreshments and lunches daily; welcome reception (June 12); half-day outing (June 15), and evening banquet with boat cruise (June 16). Please visit our web page for some important information concerning conference fees: www.jyu.fi/mcdm2011/registration/fees .

Organizing committee: 

Kaisa Miettinen (General Chair), Univ. of Jyväskylä, Dept. of MIT

Jussi Hakanen, Univ. of Jyväskylä, Dept. of MIT

Pekka Salminen, Univ. of Jyväskylä, School of Business and Economics

Tero Tuovinen, Univ. of Jyväskylä, Dept. of MIT

Hannele Wallenius, Aalto University School of Science and Technology

Marja-Leena Rantalainen, (Secretary), Univ. of Jyväskylä, Dept. of MIT

Program committee: 

Pekka Korhonen (Co-chair), Aalto University School of Economics, FINLAND

Jyrki Wallenius (Co-chair), Aalto University School of Economics, FINLAND

Christer Carlsson, Åbo Akademi, FINLAND

Kalyanmoy Deb, IIT Kanpur, INDIA & Aalto University School of Economics, FINLAND

Matthias Ehrgott, University of Auckland, NEW ZEALAND

Raimo Hämäläinen, Aalto University School of Science and Technology, FINLAND

Juhani Koski, Tampere University of Technology, FINLAND

Gang Kou, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, CHINA

Murat Köksalan, Middle East Technical University, TURKEY

Kaisa Miettinen, University of Jyväskylä, FINLAND

Jaap Spronk, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, NETHERLANDS

Ralph E. Steuer, University of Georgia, USA

Daniel Vanderpooten, Universite Paris Dauphine, FRANCE

For further information please visit our conference web-page www.jyu.fi/mcdm2011 
or contact the Conference Secretariat by e-mail mcdm2011 at mcdmsociety.org .

Prof. Kaisa Miettinen
Organizing Committee, General Chair

Prof. Jyrki Wallenius,
Prof. Pekka Korhonen
Program Committee, Co-Chairs

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