Financial support for young scholars and PhD students

One possibility to cover travel expences to the MCDM2011 conference is taking part in the special pre-conference seminar for young scholars.
UPD: You can also apply for conference fee reimbursement directly at the Conference Committee

1st Call for abstracts

Finally 1st Call for abstracts is published on the conference web-site.

Plenary speakers (in alphabetical order)

Jared Cohon (President, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA)

James P. Ignizio (Professor, University of Texas - Pan American, USA)

Jyrki Kangas (Director General, Metsähallitus, Finland)

Stanley Zionts (Adjunct Professor, The State University of New York at Buffalo, New York, USA)

Call for Applications: MCDM Doctoral Dissertation Award

The International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) will honor the MCDM Doctoral Dissertation Award to a young scholar who has recently obtained a doctoral degree and completed an excellent doctoral dissertation in MCDM and/or related research fields. The award will be announced at the 21st International Conference on MCDM.

The finalists are expected to give a talk at the conference and the final decision will be made after these talks.

Deadline for applications: February 1, 2011. See details on the conference web-page.

Session types

Information about session types is updated. There will be four types of sessions: invited, contributed, industrial and discussion.
Note that a participant cannot give more than one talk in the conference (except for discussion sessions).
See more information about session types on the conference web-page.

The 21st International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making

Welcome to the land of Midnight Sun - June 13-17, 2011! 

Welcome to the 21st International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making! The theme for the Conference is Environment and Policy, which are active areas of application of MCDM tools in Finland (as well as around the world). The Conference will be held in the Agora Building, located on the Mattilanniemi campus of the University of Jyväskylä.

Read more about the conference on the official web-page.

Follow this blog to be up-to-date about conference preparation status.