European Working Group on Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding
The European Working Group on Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding (also, EURO Working Group on Multicriteria Decision Aiding, EWG on Multicriteria Aid for Decisions, or EWG-MCDA) is a working group whose objective is to promote original research in the field of multicriteria decision aiding at the European level.[1]
The Group was founded in 1975[2] by Bernard Roy during the First European Conference on Operational Research (EURO I) held in Brussels, Belgium and has approximately 350 members from 38 countries.[3]
The objectives of the EURO Working Group on MCDA are the following:[1][3]
- to contribute to the development, at a European level, of an original way of thinking in the field of multicriteria decision aiding;
- to allow each member of the group to present to others methodological, theoretical or applied results, to submit his/her own work and thoughts to critical discussion by the group, and also to facilitate collaboration;
- to develop multicriteria aid for decisions by facilitating contact between all people interested in the subject, and by stimulating continuity and progress in exchanges and work;
- to keep the group alive and open by means of bi-annual meetings which should not be mini-conferences but real meetings favourable to exchanges and to the emergence of new ideas.
References
- ^ a b http://www.cs.put.poznan.pl/ewgmcda - EWG-MCDA webpage
- ^ Ballestero, E. and Romero, C. (1998). Decision Making and its Applications to Economic Problems, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston. p. 9. ISBN 0792382382
- ^ a b http://www.euro-online.org - EURO, Association of European Operational Research Societies
External links
- Published Working Group reports: