Conveners
Regular session: Session 1: MCDA Methods and Preference Modeling
- River Huang (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)
Regular session: Session 2: Methodological Advances in MCDA
- Richard Maydell
Regular session: Session 3: Energy and Infrastructure
- Carlos Henggeler Antunes (INESC Coimbra, Departement of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Coimbra, Polo 2, 3030-690 Coimbra, Portugal)
Regular session: Session 4: Sustainability and Environment
- Alice Aubert (ZHAW - Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften)
Regular session: Session 5: Applied MCDA and Decision Support
- Ana Sara Costa
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River Huang (Laboratory for Energy Systems Analysis, PSI Centers for Nuclear Engineering & Sciences and Energy & Environmental Sciences)17/09/2026, 16:00Regular 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.
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Yan Wang (Xi'an Jiaotong University)17/09/2026, 16:20Regular 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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Martijn Kuller (Utrecht University)17/09/2026, 16:40Regular 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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Dr Pelin Gülüm (Delft University of Technology)17/09/2026, 17:00Regular 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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Richard Maydell18/09/2026, 09:00Regular 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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Mr Boris Coquelet (Université libre de Bruxelles)18/09/2026, 09:20Regular 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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Dr Francisco Silva Pinto (Lusófona University)18/09/2026, 09:40Regular 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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Dr Sarah Ben Amor (Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa)18/09/2026, 10:00Regular 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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Carlos Henggeler Antunes (INESC Coimbra, Departement of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Coimbra, Polo 2, 3030-690 Coimbra, Portugal)18/09/2026, 11:00Regular 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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Eleftherios Siskos (Technical University of Crete)18/09/2026, 11:20Regular 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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Shima Sasanpour (German Aerospace Center (DLR))18/09/2026, 11:40Regular 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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Ruihong Chen (Chair of Energy System Analysis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich)18/09/2026, 12:00Regular 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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Alice Aubert (ZHAW - Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften)18/09/2026, 14:30Regular 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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Christina Wulf (Forschungszentrum Jülich)18/09/2026, 14:50Regular 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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Martina Haase (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS))18/09/2026, 15:10Regular 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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Sebastian Schär (Eawag: Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology)18/09/2026, 15:30Regular 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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Ana Sara Costa18/09/2026, 16:30Regular 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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Matteo Spada (ZHAW - Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften)18/09/2026, 16:50Regular 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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46. Real-Time Lot-Level Customer Satisfaction Analysis in the Agri-Food Sector Using the MUSA MethodProf. Nikos Tsotsolas (University of West Attica)18/09/2026, 17:10Regular 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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Mx Odile Phelpin (INRAE - National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (France))18/09/2026, 17:301Regular 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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