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DAS Activities: January - December 1998

Visitors

Esa Ahonen

Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration, Helsinki, Finland

23 April

Jifa Gu

Systems Engineering Society of China, Beijing, Peoples Republic of China

20 April

Merja Halme

Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration, Helsinki, Finland

29 June - 5 July

Andrzej Jaszkiewicz

Institute of Computing Science, Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland

3-28 August

Gregory Kersten

School of Business, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

14-15 December

Geoff Mallory

Open University, Milton Keynes, UK

5-9 February

Wojtek Michalowski

School of Business, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

14-15 December

Hirotaka Nakayama

Department of Applied Mathematics, Konan University, Kobe, Japan

22-23 September

Wlodzimierz Ogryczak

Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland

24 May - 6 June

Michael Seebacher

IDEA Connection Systems, Vienna, Austria

29 May

Bertram Spector

Center for Negotiation Analysis, Potomac, USA

26 March

Jyrki Wallenius

Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration, Helsinki, Finland

25-31 March

Stanley Zionts

Jacobs Management Center, State University of New York, Buffalo, USA

2-3 July

Visiting Ph.D. Students

Grazia Concilio

University of Bari, Bari, Italy

30 January - 5 April

Timo Kuosmanen

Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration, Helsinki, Finland

12-15 October

David Metcalfe

University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

6-13 January

Robert Susmaga

Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland.

22 March - 4 April

Young Scientists' Summer Program

Darek Eriksson

Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden

Tarja Joro

Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration, Finland

Szymon Wilk

Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland


DAS Workshops

/Third DAS Roundtable and Eighth Workshop of the DGOR Working Group, Laxenburg, Austria, 25-27 February.

Joint DAS-IIASA and IDRC Seminar "Decision Methods and Systems for Development", IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria - 3-6 June.

Fourth DAS Workshop on "Multiple Criteria Support in Network Centric Organizations" and Tutorial on "Foundations of Decision Support Methodology", Istanbul, Turkey, 1-4 September.

Fifth DAS Workshop on "Issues in Decision Analysis and Support". IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria, 9-12 December, 1998.

In-house Presentations

Analyzing and Improving Performance (Efficiency) of Decision Making Units. Pekka Korhonen, 30 January.

Introduction to Methodological Research in DAS. Seminar for participants of the Young Scientists Summer Program. Pekka Korhonen, 18 June.

Conference Presentations

INFORMS Montreal Spring 1998 Meeting, Montreal, Canada, 26-29, April:

  • "INSPIRE: A System for Web-based Negotiation Research", G. Kersten;
  • "Automated Negotiation via an Intelligent Agent", G. Kersten;
  • "Psychological Stability of Solutions to MCDM Problems", W. Michalowski.
  • Third International Conference on Multi-Objective Programming and Goal Programming: Theory and Applications, Quebec, Canada, May 30-June 3:

  • "Structural Comparison of DEA and MOLP", P. Korhonen.
  • 14th International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making: MCDM and its Worldwide Role in Risk-based Decision Making, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA, June 8-12:

  • "Searching the Efficient Frontier in DEA", P. Korhonen.
  • Intelligent Information Systems, Malbork, Poland, June 15-19:

  • "Modelling Business Negotiations for Electronic Commerce", G.E. Kersten and S. Szpakowicz.
  • 16th European Conference on Operational Research, Brussels, Belgium, July 12-15:

  • "Some Thoughts on Future Trends in MCDS", Pekka Korhonen (Semi-Plenary).
  • 2nd Berkeley-KVL Conference/Workshop on Natural Resource Management", Copenhagen, Denmark, August 6-12:

  • "Supporting Multiple Criteria Decision Making in Forestry", Pekka Korhonen (Invited Speaker)
  • "Goal Programming", Pekka Korhonen (Invited Speaker).
  • Fourth DAS Workshop on Multiple Criteria Support in Network Centric Organizations, Istanbul, Turkey, September 1-4:

  • "Analyzing and Improving Efficiency in Organizations", Pekka Korhonen.
  • "Optimization System WWW-NIMBUS", Kaisa Miettinen.
  • ISPIM 1998 Workshop-Conference on The Power of Innovation Leadership, Vienna-Laxenburg, September 14-16:

  • "Analyzing and Improving Efficiency in Organizations", Pekka Korhonen

    Summer School on Data Envelopment Analysis, Stupava, Slovakia, September 7-25:

  • "Multiple Objective Programming and Data Envelopment Analysis", Pekka Korhonen

    Symposium on Data Envelopment Analysis - Recent Developments and Applications, Wernigerode, Germany, October 16-18, 1998:

  • "Practical Aspects of Value Efficiency Analysis", Pekka Korhonen, Aapo Siljamäki, and Margareta Soismaa

    Third Biennal Georgia Productivity Workshop, Athens, Georgia, USA, October 29-31:

  • "Practical Aspects of Value Efficiency Analysis", Pekka Korhonen, Aapo Siljamäki, and Margareta Soismaa

    Fourth Joint Management Science Doctoral Seminar. Athens, Georgia, USA, November 2-3. Organized jointly by The Terry College of Business (University of Georgia) together with the MCDS Group at the Helsinki School of Economics:

  • "Value Efficiency Analysis of Academic Research", Pekka Korhonen, Risto Tainio and Jyrki Wallenius

    IIASA Reports

    IR-98-002, Negotiation and the Web: Users'Perceptions and Acceptance, G . Kersten, S. Noronha.

    IR-98-010, Multiple Objective Programming Support, P. Korhonen.

    IR-98-011, An Algorithm for Projecting a Reference Direction onto the Nondominated Set of Given Points, P. Korhonen, J. Karaivanova.

    IR-98-015, Modelling Business Negotiations for Electronic Commerce, G. Kersten, S. Szpakowicz.

    IR-98-018, World-Wide-Web Technology in Support of Negotiation and Communication, J. Teich, H. Wallenius, J. Wallenius.

    IR-98-019, Using Trade-Off Information in Attributes' Investing, V. Jog, I. Kaliszewski, W. Michalowski.

    IR-98-024, Rational Inefficient Compromises in Negotiation, G. Kersten, G.R. Mallory.

    IR-98-032, Value Efficiency Analysis of Academic Research, P. Korhonen, R. Tainio, J. Wallenius.

    IR-98-041, Extending the MAD Portfolio Optimization Model to Incorporate Downside Risk Aversion, W.Michalowski, W.Ogryczak.

    IR-98-042, Practical Aspects of Value Efficiency Analysis, P. Korhonen, A. Siljamäki, M. Soismaa.

    IR-98-049, Learning Business Negotiations with Web-based Systems: The Case of IIMB, G.E. Kersten, T.R. Madan Mohan, S.J. Noronha and M.J. Kersten.

    IR-98-054, Value Efficiency Analysis for Incorporating Preference Information in Data Envelopment Analysis, M. Halme, T. Joro, P. Korhonen, S. Salo and J. Wallenius.

    IR-98-055, Models for Identifying Target Units in Data Envelopment Analysis: Comparison and Extension, T. Joro.

    IR-98-060, Managing Problems of Postmodernity: Some Heuristics for Evaluation of Systems Approaches, D.M. Eriksson.

    IR-98-064, Rank Order for a Rehabilitation Program Using Multiple Criteria, G. Concilio, P. Korhonen, M. Soismaa.

    IR-98-066, Using Objective Values to Start Multiple Objective Linear Programming Algorithms, A. Arbel, P. Korhonen.

    IR-98-070, Establishing Regret Attitude of a Decision Maker within the MCDM Modelling Framework, I. Kaliszewski, W. Michalowski.

    IR-98-104, Restricting Weights in Value Efficiency Analysis, M.Halme, P. Korhonen.

    IR-98-106, Identification of Biodiversity and other Forest Attributes for Forest Management: Siberian Forest Case Study, S.Wilk, M. Flinkman, W. Michalowski and R. Susmaga.

    IR-98-107, The Value of Preference Information in Agency Relationships, R. Vetschera.

    IR-98-109, Multiple Issue Auction and Market Algorithms for the World Wide Web, J. Teich, H. Wallenius, J. Wallenius.

    IR-98-111, Distributed Performance Analysis on the Internet Using a Centric Database, K. Miettinen, P. Korhonen.

    IR-98-112, Dealing with Interval Scale Data in Data Envelopment Analysis, Merja Halme, T. Joro. M. Koivu.

    Publications

    Halme, M., Joro, T., Korhonen, P., Salo, S., and Wallenius, J. (1998). "A Value Efficiency Approach to Incorporating Preference Information in Data Envelopment Analysis". Forthcoming in Management Science.

    Iz, P., and Korhonen, P. (Eds.) (1998). "Special Issue on Group Decision and Negotiation Based on Multiple Criteria". Group Decision and Negotiation, Vol. 7, No. 1.

    Jog, V.M., Michalowski, W., Thomas, R., and Srivastava. A. (1998). "Are Artificial Neural Networks Worth Considering?" Canadian Investment Review, Vol.11, pp.11-17.

    Joro, T., Korhonen, P., and Wallenius, J. (1998). "Structural Comparison of Data Envelopment Analysis and Multiple Objective Linear Programming". Management Science, Vol.44, No.7, pp.962-970.

    Kaliszewski, I., and Michalowski, W. (1998). "Efficient Solutions and Bounds on Global Trade-offs". Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, Vol. 44, No. 2, pp.381-394.

    Kaliszewski, I., and Michalowski, W. (1998). "Searching for Psychologically Stable Solutions of Multiple Criteria Decision Problems". Forthcoming in European Journal of Operational Research.

    Karaivanova, J., and Korhonen, P. (1998). "Searching for the Best Alternatives in Discrete Multiple Criteria Problems". Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Systems for Automation of Engineering and Research (SAER '98), 19-29 September 1998, Varna.

    Kersten, G.E., and Noronha, S.J. (1998). "Negotiation via the World Wide Web: A Cross-Cultural Study of Decision Making". Forthcoming in Group Decisions and Negotiation Journal.

    Kersten, G.E., and Noronha, S.J. (1998). "Rational Agents, Contract Curves, and Inefficient Compromises". IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics-Part A: Systems and Humans, Vol. 28, No. 3, pp.326-338.

    Kersten, G.E., and Szpakowicz, S. (1998). "Modelling Business Negotiations for Electronic Commerce". Proceedings of the Workshop Intelligent Information Systems, Malbork, Poland, June 15-19. IPI PAN, pp.17-28.

    Korhonen, P., and Siljamäki, A. (1998). "Ordinal principal component analysis theory and an application". Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Vol. 26, pp.411-424.

    Korhonen, P., and Yu, G. (1998). "On computing objective function values in multiple objective quadratic-linear programming". European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 106, pp.184-190.

    Korhonen, P., Phillips, J., Teich, J., and Wallenius, J. (1998). Letter to the Editor: "Are Pareto Improvements Always Preferred by Negotiators?". Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis, Vol. 7, No.11, pp.1-2.

    Miettinen, K.M. (1999). Nonlinear Multiobjective Optimization, Kluwer Academic Publishers.

    Soismaa, M. (1999). "A Note on Efficient Solutions for the Linear Bilevel Programming Problem". European Journal of Operational Research, 112, pp.427-431.


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