Decision Support Systems and Multiple Criteria Decision Making for Sustainable Development

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue will include a collection of manuscripts analysing decision support systems and multiple criteria decision making for sustainable development. International research shows that decision support systems and multiple criteria decision making for sustainable development are very promising when related to quality, costs, sustainability, and efficiency. The researches of this Special Issue encompass the following main topics via decision support systems and multiple criteria decision making:

• Environmental sustainability;
• Sustainable economics and environmental economics;
• Sustainable technology;
• Sustainable manufacturing;
• Smart, sustainable cities;
• Sustainable engineering and architecture;
• Building information modelling in sustainable design, construction, and facilities management;
• Approaching sustainable transport;
• Health and sustainability;
• Sustainable energy;
• Sustainable business theory and practice;
• Sustainable income;
• Politics of sustainability;
• Environmental politics;
• Threats and paths to sustainability;
• Sustainability metrics and indices;
• Environmental governance;
• Cultural issues in sustainable development;
• Cultural heritage sustainability in theory and practice;
• Cultural factors of sustainable development projects;
• Human-centred design;
• Life-cycle analysis;
• Open data sustainability;
• Circularity and measurement;
• Sustainability decision-support systems;
• Approaching sustainable, smart infrastructure;
• Data and text mining for sustainability;
• Affective computing to enhance sustainability;
• Achieving sustainable advantage through biometric technologies.

This Special Issue of Sustainability intends to gather manuscripts to analyse the above-listed topics into prospects for perspective developments in decision-support systems and multiple criteria decision making for sustainable development.

Prof. Dr. Artūras Kaklauskas
Dr. Ajith Abraham
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.