New Applications in Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis

Dear Colleagues, 

Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) techniques have been used successfully in many real-world problems. For example, in the fields of logistics, finance, environment, diagnostics, technology selection, etc. However, due to the revolution driven by Industry 4.0, with new breakthroughs in data integration, devices, knowledge techniques, innovation, management and technology, which underlines growing digitalisation and cooperative coordination between productive units in the economy, there are new concepts which do not utilize MCDA, and which would be greatly advanced by including these techniques in decision processes. A similar revolution is happening in education, which is increasingly heading towards e-learning and web-based learning, and the management of industrial assets. 

All MCDA techniques are welcome, especially combined techniques, the inclusion of fuzzy sets or group decision making. The application of minority techniques, or ones that improve on those traditionally used, are also encouraged. 

The scope of this issue is applications in MCDA in new fields, subjects, or recent advances related to Industry 4.0, IoT or big data, e-education, etc.; that is, subjects which have recently undergone substantial change and where MCDA techniques have not yet been included in the decision processes.

Dr. María Carmen Carnero
Guest Editor

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