International Summer School
On Multiple Criteria Decision Aid 2003

"Concerted Resource Management and Sustainable
Development: Processes and Tools"

May 26 to June 6, 2003

School Location: HEC Montréal
3000, chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine
Montréal (Qc) H3T 2A7
mcda@gerad.ca
(Building #28 on the campus map).

Goals and Designated Public

The aim of the school is to give a state-of-the-art presentation of multiple criteria methods, applications and software. A special attention will be given on "Concerted Resource Management and Sustainable Development: processes and tools". The term resources means here all kind of resources: financial, human, material, natural. These concepts and tools are presented in a didactic way and they illustrate the complementarity of the approaches which can be found in the literature. They follow a clue from problem structuring till operation methods. Software presentations and case studies are also included in the program.

Multicriteria decision aid (MCDA) is a rapidly evolving domain which scientific developments are altogether based on fundamental sciences as mathematics, computer science, operation research, engineering, etc. and on social sciences and management science as sociology, management, political sciences. Interdisciplinarity needs a special involvement and will to insure full collaboration. The field of application is continuously expanding and social demands are numerous.

The specific objectives of the school are:

to exchange knowledge to provide an efficient approach of real life decision problems;
to present recent developments in MCDA methods and practices;
to present software developments;
to analyse and discuss several applications of MCDA to complex evaluation situations.

The designated public is the following:

people involved in the professional life (staff members in Government and Industry, managers, consultants) and who wish to familiarize with the tools on Multicriteria decision aid in view to use them in the frame of their work;
young researchers who wish to achieve a thesis on the subject or to carry on a personal work which uses Multicriteria decision aid or to in-depth their knowledge in this discipline in order to complete their training.

It is very important that both categories described be present in order to favour the exchanges between people who are used to deal with decision problems in very different manners. The ideal number of participants is about 40 and, in any case, less than 50.

Language

The official language of the School is English. No simultaneous translation will be provided.

Welcoming Institution

GERAD Research Center (Group for Research in Decision Analysis)

Supporting institutions

International Society on MCDA: Chairman, Valérie Belton, Professor of Management Science, Strathclyde University, United Kingdom;
The two working groups of EURO (The Association of European Operational Research Societies) in MCDA:
- Euro Working Group "Aide multicritère à la décision": Chairman, Bernard Roy, Professor at Lamsade, Université de Paris-Dauphine, France;
- ESIGMA Group (European Special Interest Group on Multicriteria Analysis): Chairman, Theo Stewart, Professor of Statistical Sciences, Capetown University, South Africa.

Permanent International Scientific Committee

The Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the International Summer Schools in MCDA is presently Ph. Vincke from Belgium. This committee is constituted of eight people, who are :

V. Belton (United Kingdom): Chairman of the International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Aid
C. Bana e Costa (Portugal): Representative of the ESIGMA Group
P. Korhonen (Finland): Representative of the International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Aid
B. Matarazzo (Italy): Organizer of the former International Summer School on Multiple Criteria Decision Aid
B. Roy (France): Chairman of the Euro Working Group "Aide multicritère à la décision"
Th. Stewart (South Africa): Chairman of the ESIGMA Group
Ph. Vincke (Belgium): Representative of the Euro Working Group "Aide multicritère à la décision"
J.-P. Waaub (Canada): Organizer of the International Summer School on Multiple Criteria Decision Aid 2003