17–19 Sept 2026
ETH Zürich
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  1. Dimitris Zopounidis (Technical University of Crete)
    17/09/2026, 15:30
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    Poster submission

    Airports are increasingly required to balance operational efficiency, environmental responsibility, infrastructure adequacy and socioeconomic contribution in an increasingly evolving aviation industry environment. This study proposes the Airport Sustainability Performance Index (ASPI), a multi-criteria assessment framework for Greek regional airports using PROMETHEE II and a panel dataset...

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  2. SADAF FARBOODI (Technical University of Denmark)
    17/09/2026, 15:30
    Poster submission

    Green Shipping Corridors (GSCs), defined as zero-emission maritime routes between ports, have emerged as key initiatives to accelerate maritime decarbonization. A central component of GSC development is selecting suitable alternative fuel pathways. However, identifying appropriate fuel options for a specific corridor remains challenging due to differences in technological maturity,...

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  3. Grzegorz Miebs (Poznan University of Technology)
    17/09/2026, 15:30
    Poster submission

    This study proposes a two-stage methodology for a collection of portfolios construction. In the first stage, alternatives are scored using an active-learning UTA preference-learning method focused on the most promising alternatives. In the second stage, the alternatives are assigned to portfolios through a bi-objective optimization model that maximizes alternative scores while minimizing...

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  4. Silvano Zappalà (University of Catania)
    17/09/2026, 15:30
    Poster submission

    EI-SCORE is a Python application that builds an explainable and interpretable composite indicator based on "if-then" decision rules induced by Dominance-based Rough Set Approach (DRSA). The software provides an intuitive, user-friendly interface and implements a recently introduced methodology for DRSA-based composite indicator construction. It constructs the indicator from a learning set of...

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  5. Shan-Lin Huang
    17/09/2026, 15:30
    Poster submission

    Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) has long emphasized the importance of modeling interactions among criteria to improve the evaluation and ranking of alternatives. Fuzzy measures and the Choquet integral provide a powerful non-additive framework for capturing synergistic and redundant relationships among criteria and have been widely applied in decision analysis. However, the effectiveness...

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  6. Saba Torabi
    17/09/2026, 15:30
    Poster submission

    Review and recommendation platforms play a central role in decision-aiding processes by supporting users in the evaluation of services, products, or places. As social platforms based on user-generated content, they typically aggregate individual opinions to rank alternatives. However, conventional rating systems often fail to capture the complexity of users' subjective evaluations, since...

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  7. François Verschueren (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
    17/09/2026, 15:30
    Poster submission

    In multiple criteria decision aid (MCDA), three traditional problem settings are typically distinguished: choice, ranking, and sorting. More recently, attention has turned to the multicriteria clustering problem, in which alternatives are assigned to groups in an unsupervised manner, meaning that categories are not predefined, unlike in sorting approaches. The objective of these methods is to...

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  8. YIZHEN WANG (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB))
    17/09/2026, 15:30
    Poster submission

    Multicriteria decision aiding provides a structured way to evaluate environmental technologies involving multiple objectives, heterogeneous indicators, and trade-offs between technical, economic, and environmental performance. This study develops an integrated assessment framework for comparing sulfur recovery scenarios in flue gas treatment systems. Three alternatives are evaluated: a...

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  9. Ting Wu (Manchester Metropolitan University)
    17/09/2026, 15:30
    Poster submission

    Renewable energy is fundamental to achieving a sustainable future, as it enhances energy security and environmental sustainability, while supporting long-term economic development. Future energy systems are expected to rely increasingly on renewable energy and to transition from conventional centralized infrastructures toward cleaner, decentralized energy (DE) systems. These DE systems are...

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  10. Dr Mengmeng Tan (Liverpool Business School, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK)
    17/09/2026, 15:30
    Poster submission

    Company managers focus on implementing strategies to enhance productive and operational efficiency while controlling costs to mitigate the risk of failure. Petroleum plays a vital role in national strategic security and economic development. After decades of exploitation, oilfields have progressed into the later development stage, presenting challenges such as increased difficulty in crude oil...

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  11. Jainaba Conteh (University of Bath)
    17/09/2026, 15:30
    Poster submission

    Existing infrastructure planning often overlooks temporal factors [1, 2]. This is further exacerbated by the inability of existing infrastructure planning frameworks to effectively handle multiple decision-making criteria. We plan to apply multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) techniques to evaluate hydrogen delivery approaches in the UK, with a focus on the impact of infrastructure rollout on...

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  12. Federica Tomelleri
    17/09/2026, 15:30
    Poster submission

    The European Union is promoting Digital Product Passports (DPPs) under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation to enhance traceability, sustainability, and circularity across value chains. Although many ongoing initiatives focus on data infrastructure and indicator development, the decision-support potential of DPPs remains largely unexplored. To address this gap, a flexible Decision...

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  13. Mr Simone Pagliuca (Laboratory for Energy Systems Analysis, PSI Centers for Nuclear Engineering & Sciences and Energy & Environmental Sciences)
    17/09/2026, 15:30
    Poster submission

    UP-MAVT Suite is an open-source web application for multi-criteria group decision analysis under uncertainty. It propagates probability distributions through input data, value functions, and criteria weights via Monte Carlo simulation, with elicitation tools for remote, asynchronous group decision-making and full probabilistic rankings. Guided procedures support uncertain value functions,...

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  14. River Huang (Laboratory for Energy Systems Analysis, PSI Centers for Nuclear Engineering & Sciences and Energy & Environmental Sciences)
    17/09/2026, 16:00
    Regular Presentation

    The SRF deck-of-cards procedure is widely recognized as an intuitive method for eliciting criteria weights in outranking Multi-Criteria Decision Aiding methods. However, its numerous extensions, covering imprecise or fuzzy inputs, robustness analysis, hierarchical criteria structures, and diverse communication protocols, have developed independently.
    Although these variants share the same...

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  15. Yan Wang (Xi'an Jiaotong University)
    17/09/2026, 16:20
    Regular Presentation

    We study interactive preference elicitation in Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding when the goal is to learn a decision maker’s additive value model from a limited number of sequential pairwise-comparison queries. At each round, the analyst updates the belief about the unknown preference model based on the observed comparison and must select the next pair of alternatives to maximize the...

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  16. Martijn Kuller (Utrecht University)
    17/09/2026, 16:40
    Regular Presentation

    Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) methods require stakeholder preference elicitation, but standard approaches like Swing weight elicitation can be time-consuming and cognitively demanding for practical applications. This study investigated whether fast preference elicitation methods—direct ranking and rating of objectives—can effectively substitute for rigorous Swing weight elicitation...

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  17. Dr Pelin Gülüm (Delft University of Technology)
    17/09/2026, 17:00
    Regular Presentation

    Many real-world problems involve multiple conflicting objectives and require trade-offs among individuals with diverse and often competing priorities. In such settings, decisions emerge through negotiation processes in which interaction, persuasion, and social influence shape how alternatives are evaluated and ultimately resolved. These processes are influenced by cognitive biases, individual...

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  18. Richard Maydell
    18/09/2026, 09:00
    Regular Presentation

    Impact assessment often requires comparing alternatives whose consequences differ across criteria, stakeholders, and time horizons. Although multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) is widely used to structure such problems, temporal assumptions are often treated only implicitly, despite their potential influence on final rankings. This paper proposes an outranking-based framework for...

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  19. Mr Boris Coquelet (Université libre de Bruxelles)
    18/09/2026, 09:20
    Regular Presentation

    The PROMETHEE family is a well-known class of multicriteria outranking methods. It has been applied in various fields such as computer science, environmental management, finance, health care, etc. PROMETHEE methods first compute pairwise preferences from an evaluation table (based on inter and intra-criteria parameters) and then aggregate them to derive flow scores. Those scores are then used...

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  20. Dr Francisco Silva Pinto (Lusófona University)
    18/09/2026, 09:40
    Regular Presentation

    The European Green Deal and related strategic frameworks have led European governments to allocate significant shares of public budgets to nature restoration. To leverage these investments toward nature-positive outcomes, governments increasingly rely on additional financing instruments, such as Sovereign Green Bonds, whose proceeds are earmarked for eligible projects across predefined green...

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  21. Dr Sarah Ben Amor (Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa)
    18/09/2026, 10:00
    Regular Presentation

    Fairness has become a central concern in decision-making processes supported by algorithms, particularly under the Responsible Artificial Intelligence agenda. While most discussions on algorithmic fairness originate in Machine Learning, where bias is typically associated with the statistical properties of training data, Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) presents a distinct challenge,...

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  22. Carlos Henggeler Antunes (INESC Coimbra, Departement of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Coimbra, Polo 2, 3030-690 Coimbra, Portugal)
    18/09/2026, 11:00
    Regular Presentation

    This work presents a bi-objective optimization model for the coordinated management of energy flows in an energy community under fixed time-differentiated buying and selling electricity prices. The model captures the behavior of heterogeneous consumers and prosumers with diverse energy profiles, encompassing combinations of flexible and non-flexible loads, photovoltaic generation, stationary...

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  23. Eleftherios Siskos (Technical University of Crete)
    18/09/2026, 11:20
    Regular Presentation

    The transformation of the European energy system is crucial for achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and meeting long-term energy policy objectives. This paper focuses on the Swiss energy transition and evaluates the sustainability and shock resilience of alternative national energy pathways. We propose an integrated evaluation framework with three main components: (i) the...

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  24. Shima Sasanpour (German Aerospace Center (DLR))
    18/09/2026, 11:40
    Regular Presentation

    In order to tackle climate change, Germany set the goal of transforming its energy system and achieving carbon neutrality until 2045. Energy system optimization models enable the optimization of decarbonized future energy systems typically by minimizing the total system costs. While the affordability of a decarbonized energy system is an essential goal of the transformation, other impacts on...

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  25. Ruihong Chen (Chair of Energy System Analysis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich)
    18/09/2026, 12:00
    Regular Presentation

    The deployment of wind energy faces challenges arising from competing objectives, such as maximizing energy production and minimizing environmental impacts. While geographic-information-system-based multi-criteria decision analysis (GIS-MCDA) is widely applied in renewable energy planning, many existing studies rely on simplified impact representations and limited integration of stakeholder...

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  26. Alice Aubert (ZHAW - Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften)
    18/09/2026, 14:30
    Regular Presentation

    Constructing a hierarchy of objectives is a foundational step in multi-criteria decision analysis, yet its use as an integration tool in interdisciplinary research projects remains underexplored. Based on interventions carried out in four different projects between 2025 and 2026, I reflect on the benefits and challenges of supporting research teams to construct a hierarchy of objectives. The...

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  27. Christina Wulf (Forschungszentrum Jülich)
    18/09/2026, 14:50
    Regular Presentation

    Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA) has evolved to a powerful framework to assess products and services holistically. However, from the different types of analysis the practitioner ends up with a multitude of indicator results. Many LCSA practitioners have attempted to achieve an integrated assessment by applying Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) methods to the individual LCSA...

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  28. Martina Haase (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS))
    18/09/2026, 15:10
    Regular Presentation

    A low-threshold screening tool called “SustainFrame” is being developed to assess the sustainability of new and ongoing research projects in the field of materials, technologies and infrastructures at KIT. SustainFrame uses multi-criteria decision analysis methods and is being designed to guide users through the sustainability screening process by a series of questions that lead to selecting...

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  29. Sebastian Schär (Eawag: Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology)
    18/09/2026, 15:30
    Regular Presentation

    Blue-green infrastructure (BGI) have been lauded as a multifunctional solution for cities since they can simultaneously contribute to stormwater management, heat mitigation, and biodiversity conservation. However, deciding on BGI elements, such as green roofs or ponds, which perform different functions, is complex. Elements are interconnected, can be combined, their performance is uncertain,...

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  30. Ana Sara Costa
    18/09/2026, 16:30
    Regular Presentation

    The sustainability of modern health systems is challenged by rising expenditures, demographic pressures, and the need to maintain equitable access to quality care. Conventional prospective payment models, while aiming to promote efficiency, often fail to formally incorporate non-financial performance dimensions such as quality and access into reimbursement calculations, that may lead to...

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  31. Matteo Spada (ZHAW - Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften)
    18/09/2026, 16:50
    Regular Presentation

    Forest management decisions are increasingly shaped by deep climate-driven uncertainty, spatiotemporal complexity, and long-term trade-offs among ecosystem services. While stochastic forest simulators can represent non-linear ecosystem dynamics, disturbance regimes, and climate-driven variability, their high-fidelity outputs are rarely integrated into multi-criteria decision-analytic...

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  32. Prof. Nikos Tsotsolas (University of West Attica)
    18/09/2026, 17:10
    Regular Presentation

    Customer satisfaction in the agri-food sector is increasingly shaped not only by sensory quality and price, but also by traceability, safety, sustainability, origin, and trust in the information communicated to consumers. This work proposes a real-time multicriteria framework for analysing consumer satisfaction at product-lot level, through the integration of the KalaΘos Consumer App, the...

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  33. Mx Odile Phelpin (INRAE - National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (France))
    18/09/2026, 17:30
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    Regular Presentation

    Agroecological transitions require public and private decision-makers to design support schemes for environmental innovations before their long-term ecological outcomes are measurable. Agroforestry is a typical example: despite recognised benefits, it remains underrepresented in France, accounting for 1% of the utilised agricultural area. Young agroforestry systems are heterogeneous and their...

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  34. Konrad Gastpari (University of Florence)
    Discussion Paper

    Freight forwarders play a pivotal role in the air cargo supply chain, acting as key intermediaries between shippers and airlines. Their selection of airline partners significantly influences carriers’ commercial performance, market competitiveness, and cargo volumes. Despite the strategic importance of these decisions, the factors driving carrier selection remain insufficiently understood in...

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  35. Kamil Pustelnik (AGH University of Krakow)
    Discussion Paper

    Peer assessment raises an important aggregation problem: when the members of a group rate each other, the opinion of someone the rest of the group rates highly ought to weigh more than the opinion of someone rated poorly. Determining the relative contributions of co-workers is still often based on informal negotiations, which may lead to inconsistencies, misunderstandings, or a sense of...

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  36. Konrad Kulakowski (AGH University of Krakow)
    Discussion Paper

    For many years, the pairwise comparison method has been widely used in expert decision-making. The best-known example of this method’s application is the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). In this article, we present a new comprehensive approach to the hierarchical AHP model that allows for the assessment of the reliability of weight vectors at various levels of the model. Furthermore, we will...

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  37. Paweł Jarosz (Cracow Universty of Technology, Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics)
    Discussion Paper

    Real-world engineering design—ranging from aerospace logistics to microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)—is inherently defined by multiple, conflicting criteria. A primary bottleneck in applying Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding (MCDA) and multi-objective optimization (MOO) to these domains is the severe asymmetry in computational costs across different objectives. Evaluations can range from...

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  38. Agustín Cortés Hähnle (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR))
    Discussion Paper

    Motivation
    Transformation pathways for the energy system are commonly assessed from a cost-efficiency or an emissions reduction perspective. Likewise, investors focus on profitability when assessing investments in technologies for this transition. Thus, prevailing modelling approaches in energy system analysis are specialised on these aspects. The energy transition and its necessary...

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  39. Jacek Szybowski (AGH University of Krakow, Poland)
    Discussion Paper

    In the papers [1,2] Heuristic Rating Estimation (HRE) method in decision making has been introduced. It is useful when the priorities of some referential alternatives are initially known.It might be the case of introducing new products to the market, or adding new players to the ranking list. However, as it was pointed in [3] in the case of the arithmetic HRE, for some specific data, the...

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  40. Prof. Isaak Vryzidis (University of West Attica)
    Discussion Paper

    The selection of treatment technologies for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) involves multiple, often conflicting, criteria across technical, economic, environmental, social, legal, and policy dimensions. Moreover, the relative importance of these criteria varies strongly with the application context, requiring flexible, context-specific decision models. This study develops a...

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  41. Marco Cinelli (Leiden University)
    Discussion Paper

    The European Commission's Safe-and-Sustainable-by-Design (SSbD) framework formally distinguishes a (re)design phase from assessment. In practice, however, SSbD efforts — including those emerging in healthcare — tend to start from a pre-selected shortlist of options and focus on evaluating them, rather than on structuring how options are generated and governed. This can lead to narrowly framed...

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  42. Dong-Ling Xu (Alliance Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester)
    Discussion Paper

    This presentation introduces an evidential reasoning approach for assessing company ESG performance. ESG assessment often involves multiple criteria, mixed quantitative and qualitative information, subjective judgements, missing data, and uncertainty. Traditional weighted additive approaches are simple and interpretable, but they can smooth out performance diversity and struggle to represent...

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  43. Janeth Carolina Godoy (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS))
    Discussion Paper

    This study presents a pilot workshop to test an integrated approach that combines Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA), sustainability assessment (SA), with immersive spatial visualization. The goal of this approach is to support stakeholders’ integration in MCDA SA by introducing the spatial context and thereby foster more active discussions and informed decisions. A workshop for...

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  44. Prof. Jian-Bo Yang (The University of Manchester)
    Discussion Paper

    Maritime decarbonization has increased the strategic importance of liquefied natural gas (LNG) bunkering ports in supporting low-carbon shipping and resilient fuel supply chains. Existing studies often examine LNG demand, port selection, or network structure separately, limiting integrated identification of strategic ports. This study develops a hybrid framework combining AIS-based trajectory...

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  45. Moha Ghaderi (Pompeu Fabra University)
    Discussion Paper

    introduces the attention-entropy random utility (AERU) model, a behavioral model of discrete choice in which a decision-maker endogenously allocates attention across subsets of attributes in order to increase subjective confidence by reducing ex post choice uncertainty, and subsequently chooses an option based solely on the attended information. By endogenizing attention, the decision problem...

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  46. Sajid Siraj (University of Leeds)
    Discussion Paper

    Many important decisions face a basic dilemma: act now, while the facts are still uncertain, or wait for better information at the cost of delay. Standard Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) does not address this dilemma directly, since it treats the performance of each option as a fixed number evaluated at one moment in time, and says nothing about when that moment should be. This paper...

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