Application for MCDA/M Summer School 2016

The MCDA/M Summer School is a two-week event, taking place July 18th through 29th, 2016 in Recife/Brazil. The aim of the MCDA/M Summer School 2016 is to give to doctoral students/young researchers a state-of-the-art presentation of multiple criteria methods, applications and software. Details about the program, the application process and the venue are available at http://cdsid.org.br/mc-summer-school2016/

The aim of this school is to give graduate students/young researchers a state-of-the-art presentation of multiple criteria methods, applications and software and to stimulate a networking of young researchers in MCDA/M. The scientific program of the summer school consists of invited lectures and teams of participants working on case studies.

Distinguished professors who have already confirmed their participation are: Ehrgott, Matthias; Figueira, José Rui; Geiger, Martin J.; Greco, Salvatore; Keeney, Ralph L.; Köksalan, Murata and Słowiński, Roman.

The program will include the following topics:

. Introduction to MCDA/MCDM;
. Applications in real world problems;
. Problem Structuring;
. Preference Modelling;
. Outranking Methods ;
. MAVT/MAUT (Multi-Attribute Value/Utility Theory);
. Robust Ordinal Regression;
. Decision Rule Approach;
. MCDM Group Decision ;
. Interactive Methods of MultiobjectiveOptimization (IMMO);
. Multiobjective Combinatorial Optimization (MOCO);
. Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization (EMO);
. Decision Deck;
. Scientific writing and publication strategy;
. MCDM community and History.

Applications are open until December 18th, 2015 (http://cdsid.org.br/mc-summer-school2016/application/) and the number of participants are limited to 50.

For the application submission is required to send by email to mc-ss2016@cdsid.org a detailed curriculum, an abstract describing the Ph.D. project, a letter from supervisor specifying in clear terms the motivations to attend the Summer School and the application form, available on the homepage.