On September 25th - 27th 2019, the 15th International Symposium on Operations Research was organized in Bled (Slovenia) by the Slovenian Society Informatika, Section of Operations Research. Thanks to a kind invitation of the chair of the Program Committee, prof. Lidija Zadnik-Stirn, a special stream entitled "Formal and behavioral issues in MCDM" was organized by prof. Tomasz Wachowicz, in cooperation with prof. Tadeusz Trzaskalik (University of Economics in Katowice). Within this stream, a series of papers were presented, devoted to both formal and mathematical aspects of multiple criteria decision support, and behavioral influences related to using MCDA tools in decision-making processes (such us decision-makers behavior and their cognitive limitations). Thank you to all stream contributors for their valuable and interesting presentations!.

The forthcoming Group Decision and Negotiation 2019 conferences will be hosted by Loughborough University (UK). In 2019 the conference will be organized as a joint event together with the meeting of EURO Working Group on Behavioral Operational Research. As usually, the N.EA team will co-organize a stream of sessions entitled: "Preference analysis and decision support in group decision and negotiation". This will include a session devoted to the N.EA team current research focus, which is the behavioral and cognitive limitations in preference analysis during the pre-negotiation phase, e.g.:

  • Roszkowska, Wachowicz: "Decision making profile and the expectations towards  the preference representation in decision support systems",
  • Wachowicz, Roszkowska: "Self-serving bias when using decision support system".

 More information about the conference can be find on the GDN Section webpage: http://gdnconference.org/gdn2019/