Multi-Criteria Decision Making Methods and Their Applications

Dear Colleagues,

The importance of strategic behavior in the human and social world is increasingly recognized in theory and practice. As a result, multi-criteria optimization methods, models and applications have emerged as a fundamental tool in pure and applied research. Multi-criteria decision making methods and optimization models and their applications strongly supports decision-making processes in an interactive environment. It draws on mathematics, economics, statistics, engineering, biology, political science, operations research, and other subjects. A multi-optimization occurs when multiple criteria considered by a decision maker is concerned with mathematical optimization problems involving more than one objective function to be optimized simultaneously. Decision maker considers a set of objectives in a situation in which each objective is possibly conflicting, possibly equally important, possibly overlapping. The problem is then to determine the trade off between objectives to support the decision making process.

The purpose of this Special Issue is to gather a collection of articles reflecting the latest developments in the mathematical programming methods of operations research for multi-criteria decision making processes for different fields of multi-criteria optimization approaches, models, applications and techniques. Submissions could cover not only multi-criteria theoretical algorithms, but also practical applications in logistics, supply chains, cybersecurity, healthcare and other area.

Prof. Dr. Bartosz Sawik
Prof. Dr. Elena Pérez-Bernabeu
Guest Editors

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