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Special Issue “Optimization for Decision Making”
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2019
Special Issue Editors
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Guest Editor Prof. Víctor Yepes
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Guest Editor Prof. José M. Moreno-Jiménez
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Dear Colleagues,
In the current context of the electronic governance of society, both administrations and citizens are demanding greater participation of all the actors involved in the decision-making process relative to the governance of society. In addition, the design, planning, and operations management rely on mathematical models, the complexity of which depends on the detail of models and complexity/characteristics of the problem they represent. Unfortunately, decision-making by humans is often suboptimal in ways that can be reliably predicted. Furthermore, the process industry seeks not only to minimize cost, but also to minimize adverse environmental and social impacts. On the other hand, in order to give an appropriate response to the new challenges raised, the decision-making process can be done by applying different methods and tools, as well as using different objectives. In real-life problems, the formulation of decision-making problems and application of optimization techniques to support decisions are particularly complex and a wide range of optimization techniques and methodologies are used to minimize risks or improve quality in making concomitant decisions. In addition, a sensitivity analysis should be done to validate/analyze the influence of uncertainty regarding decision-making.
Prof. Víctor Yepes
Prof. José M. Moreno-Jiménez
Guest Editors
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- Multicriteria decision making
- Optimization techniques
- Multiobjective optimization