Preface: multiple criteria decision making for sustainable decisions
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Preface: multiple criteria decision making for sustainable decisions Sarah Ben Amor1 · Anissa Frini2 · Gilles Reinhardt1 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
In July 2017, almost 200 researchers from academia and other organizations gathered in Ottawa, Canada for the 24th International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM). The theme of the conference was “Creating a Sustainable Society.” In the conference, sustainable decision making emerged as a key for responsibly building our future. This special issue is focused on sustainable decisions and consists of 17 peer-reviewed articles that stemmed from the conference. Sustainable decisions must consider the triple bottom line of social, economic and environmental outcomes. Factors that enter into such decisions are often uncertain or otherwise challenging to measure. Therefore, decision support and aiding models should integrate that complex dynamics and also be sensitive to the future consequences of the model outcomes. MCDM has greatly evolved in recent years, especially in terms of incorporating uncertainty components in its approaches. It also keeps gaining traction in several application areas. It is therefore natural that there was a strong interest in MCDM for sustainable decision making that was manifested in the number and quality of presentations and posters. The call for papers yielded over 50 manuscripts. The 17 published here underwent at least two rounds of blind reviews by over 100 methodological and application experts. We would like to express gratitude to these experts for their thorough and meticulous work. We would also like to thank Editor-in-Chief, Professor Endre Boros; managing editors, Katie D’Agosta and Ann Pulido; the authors and all conference participants. This special issue begins with two literature reviews. Colapinto, Jayaraman, Ben Abdelaziz and La Torre cover some of the most significant literature on environmental sustainability and categorize it to show how and why multiple criteria decision analysis (MCDA) models are widely used and are becoming increasingly favored by scholars. The review suggests that there has been significant growth in the environmental applications of MCDA, ranging
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Sarah Ben Amor [email protected] Anissa Frini [email protected] Gilles Reinhardt [email protected]
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Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, 55 Laurier Ave E, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada
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Université du Québec à Rimouski, Campus de Lévis, 1595, Boulevard Alphonse-Desjardins, Lévis, QC G6V 0A6, Canada
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Annals of Operations Research
from energy management and policy to land use, recycling management and sustainable tourism. Pelissari, Oliveira, Ben Amor, Kandakoglu and Helleno present an up-to-date literature review of different stochastic multicriteria acceptability analysis (SMAA) methods and their applications. They propose guidelines to assist decision-makers in the choice of a SMAA method for a specific decision-making context, as well as some
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