Friday, March 21, 2014

[DMANET] Invitation to CENTERIS Workshop on Multicriteria Decision Making and Applications in Enterprise Information Systems to be held in Troia, Portugal, 15-17 October 2014 within CENTERIS conference centeris.eiswatch.org Deadline for submissions: April 30, 2014

Dear Colleague,


We would like to invite you to submit a contribution to the International Workshop on Multicriteria Decision Making & Applications in Enterprise Information Systems to be held in Troia, Portugal, 15-17 October 2014 within CENTERIS conference http://centeris.eiswatch.org/

WORKSHOP OBJECTIVE
The aim of the Multicriteria Decision Making & Applications in Enterprise Information Systems 2014 (MCDM&EIS) session is to provide a forum for researchers to discuss models for decision making with multiple usually conflicting criteria to be considered simultaneously, and their real-life applications.

In MCDA&EIS 2014, we encourage the submission of papers on decision making from both multiobjective optimization and multicriteria decision analysis areas. Novel applications of these methods to real world problems are welcome.

WORKSHOP TOPICS AND AREAS OF INTEREST (not limited to)
MCDM Theory
Game Theory
Decision Support Systems
Multiobjective Optimization
Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis/Aiding
Group Decision Making and Negotiations
Evolutionary Algorithms and MCDM
Multiattribute Utility or Value Theory
Behavioral Issues in Decision Making
Preference Modelling
Risk and Uncertainty/Prospect Theory
Applications of MCDM and Optimization in Enterprise Information Systems

SUBMISSIONS
We welcome full research papers (7-10 pages), short papers (4-6 pages), posters (3 pages) and industrial papers (4-6 pages) on the workshop theme.
Submitted manuscripts must be written in English. Each manuscript should not exceed the maximum number of pages predefined for each submission type, considering the format templates found here: http://centeris.eiswatch.org/index.php?page=submissionguidelines

For information on post-publications see here: http://centeris.eiswatch.org/index.php?page=proceedingsjournals

Manuscript should be submitted electronically at the CENTERIS webpage until April 30, 2014.
Submitted papers will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis, and authors will be notified of the review process results by May 26, 2014. Authors of accepted papers can receive recommendations to revise their manuscript according to the reviewers' comments and should submit the revised version until June 10, 2014.

IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for paper submission (strict): April 30, 2014
Notification of acceptance/rejection: May 26, 2014
Revised version: June 10, 2014
Conference Date: October 15-17, 2014

PUBLICATION
Accepted full and short papers will be published in the conference proceedings (with ISSN).
Poster and practitioner papers will be published in the conference book of abstracts, industry and poster papers (with ISBN).
Authors of a selection of papers will be invited to enhance their manuscripts for inclusion in a book of chapters or in a journal.

WORKSHOP SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Gu Pang, Newcastle Business School, UK
Maryia Sodencamp, University of Bamberg, Germany
Igor Linkov, US Army, USA
Martin Josef Geiger, Helmut Schmidt University, Germany
Maria Dementieva, Vrije University Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Christina Hopfe, Loughborough University, UK
Tommi Tervonen, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Hisao Ishibuchi, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
Katya Vladislavleva, Evolved Analytics Europe, Belgium
Heike Trautmann, University of Münster, Germany
Nanlin Jin, Northumbria University, UK
Philippe Nemery, SAP, China
Salvatore Greco, University of Catania, Italy, and University of Portsmouth, UK
Iurii Mishcheriakov, Kharkov National University of Radioelectronics, Ukraine

WORKSHOP CHAIRS
Iryna Yevseyeva (iryna.yevseyeva@ncl.ac.uk) University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
Michael Emmerich (emmerich@liacs.nl) Leiden University, the Netherlands
Alessio Ishizaka (alessio.ishizaka@port.ac.uk) Portsmouth Business School, UK

Kind Regards,
Iryna Yevseyeva, Michael Emmerich and Alessio Ishizaka

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