Date: June 28, 2019

Speaker: Marco Cinelli, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency & Poznan University of Technology

Abstract

Marco’s research is grounded on Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA), a branch of Operational Research supporting the development of Decision Support Systems (DSS). In this talk, he will focus on the research he is conducting in collaboration with researchers from the BMIR team, whose aim is to develop a DSS based on an ontology that recommends the relevant MCDA method(s) for a particular decision-making problem (i.e., a recommender system). He will discuss the potentials and challenges of the ontology-based DSS, including how it can be used to (i) provide transparent decision recommendations, (ii) emphasize the operational requirements of the MCDA methods, and (iii) identify potential operational or knowledge gaps.

References

Marco Cinelli, Stuart R. Coles, Kerry Kirwan: Analysis of the potentials of multi criteria decision analysis methods to conduct sustainability assessment. Ecological Indicators, 2014. 46: 138-148.

Bio

Marco Cinelli (Ph.D. Engineering, University of Warwick, UK, 2016) is a Decision Engineer and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow at the National Risk Management Research Laboratory (NRMRL) of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Cincinnati, USA (current location) and Institute of Computing Science at Poznan University of Technology, Poland. His research focuses on the development of Decision Support Systems (DSS) for materials, processes, energy systems and technologies assessment. The main frameworks he uses include sustainability, resilience and risk assessment, while the decision support methods belong to the area of Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding/Analysis (MCDA). Between April 2017 and August 2018, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Future Resilient Systems (FRS) Programme of Singapore-ETH Centre/ETH Zurich in Singapore. Prior to this, he was an early career fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick, UK. He also held, between May 2016 and February 2017, a visiting scientist position at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission in Ispra (VA), Italy.

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