WG3  Agenda for Catania Meeting

 

Wednesday 16/4

 

Morning Session: (Starting time may change to 9:30 – please check)

Talks are 40min+10min for discussion+10 minute break

10:00 Elicitation of parameters of a multi-attribute sorting method for sorting in ordered categories - Marc Pirlot

11:00 Soft Constraints with Missing Preferences – Brent Venable

12:00 Dominance-based rough-set approach to multi-criteria decision analysis – Salvatore  Greco

 

Lunch break 12:50 – 2:30

 

Afternoon Session

2:20 Preferences over Interval – Alexis Tsoukias

3:20 Computational Social Choice – Jerome Lang (longer talk)

4:20 Short break

4:45 Multi-Criteria Optimization with Preferences – Ulrich Junker

5:45 Preferences for Control – Ronen Brafman

 

Thursday Morning Session: Preference from two perspectives: a decision analyst (Alexis Tsoukias) and a computer scienties (Ronen Brafman)

 

Thursday afternoon session: Decisions in the Real World:

Each talk is 30 minutes – exact schedule will be aligned with other WGs.

·         Categories of decision problems – Simon French

·         Experience with real-world decision problems – Simon French            

·         Rural road maintenance in Madagascar – Alexis Tsoukias

·         Two real world applications (choice of a cooling system for a power plant; selection of road pavement and surfacing in Southern part of Belgium) – Marc Pirlot

 

Friday late morning session

Discussions on two topics:

1. Test cases for preferences techniques

2. Measuring utilities and uncertainties