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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#222222;background:white">< We apologize for multiple posting. Please kindly disseminate this Call for Abstracts to your colleagues and contacts></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#222222"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#222222;background:white">CALL FOR PAPERS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#222222">Special Session on <br>
</span><b><span lang="EN-US">Multiobjective Optimization and Decision Making in Engineering Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US">Optimization and Engineering</span></i><span lang="EN-US"> journal<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Paper submission deadline: <b>30 November, 2019</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Guest Editors:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Jussi Hakanen (Faculty of Information Technology, University of Jyväskylä)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Richard Allmendinger (Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Aim and scope<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The emergence of advanced technologies and digitalization has been changing our world and leading to a situation where physical assets are being augmented heavily with non-physical assets. In addition to widely used simulation-based
optimization, data-driven optimization approaches have become more popular in engineering sciences due to availability of large amounts of data collected in every field (e.g. from IoT, sensors, experimental measurements etc.). Therefore, the effective combination
of data and advanced engineering and management technologies and skills is becoming a key asset to a company urging the need to rethink how to tackle modern decision making problems. The consideration of various competing factors related to business, technical,
workforce, safety and environmental aspects further increases the complexity of decision making and leads to multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) problems. This special issue focuses on the intersection between Engineering, Data Science, Multiple Criteria
Decision Making (MCDM) and Multiobjective Optimization (MO). The development of new models and algorithmic methods to solve such problems is in the focus as much as the application of these concepts to real problems. The aim of the issue is to bring together
academics and practitioners with different expertise, in particular, in engineering, computer science, mathematics, data science and business.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">This special issue is connected to but not restricted to papers presented at the 25th International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making, MCDM2019 (to be held in Istanbul, Turkey, in June 2019).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Major topics of interest<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">All submissions related to the development/application of multi/many-objective optimization in engineering are welcome. Especially, submissions considering novel approaches combining engineering and data science are highly
encouraged. Topics of interest (but not limited to) include:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US">Preference-based approaches actively incorporating human decision makers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US">Data-driven methods and their combination with simulation-based approaches<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US">Applications in engineering sciences where multi/many-objective optimization has been used to make more informed decisions (e.g. advanced manufacturing, material sciences and digital technology)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US">MCDM system development aimed at practical use in engineering enabling interactive participation of the decision maker (visualization, decision support, graphical user interfaces, automatic configuration and
tuning of optimization and decision making algorithms)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US">Hybrid methodologies combining mathematical programming, evolutionary computation and/or machine learning<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US">Approaches for computationally expensive (black-box) multi/many-objective problems and/or challenges in MCDM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US">Methods to deal with problem challenges arising in engineering sciences such as uncertainty, dynamic landscapes/constraints, noisy functions/data, robustness requirements etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US">Test/benchmark problems/simulators and performance measures to validate optimization and decision making approaches in engineering sciences, large-scale/mixed type/highly constrained problems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Submission instructions</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Papers should be submitted online at <a href="https://www.opte-journal.com">
https://www.opte-journal.com</a> and the submission deadline for full-length papers is November 30, 2019. Upon manuscript submission, please select the special issue "MCDM 2019". Submissions will be peer-reviewed according to the standards of the journal. Manuscripts
will be processed as they arrive and will be published online as soon as they are accepted. For planning purposes, interested authors are encouraged to email a tentative title to the guest editors.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Contact</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Please feel free to contact us in case you have any questions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Jussi Hakanen: <a href="mailto:jussi.hakanen@jyu.fi">jussi.hakanen@jyu.fi</a>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Richard Allmendinger: <a href="mailto:richard.allmendinger@manchester.ac.uk">
richard.allmendinger@manchester.ac.uk</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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