Special Issue 

1 November 2020

I am pleased to announce that me and Assoc. Prof. Miłosz Kadziński are co-editing a Special Issue (SI) for Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050) Journal

Here is the link to the SI.

“Sustainability, Resilience and Risk Assessments enabled by

Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA)”

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2022.

Multiple criteria evaluation involving numerous pertinent and (sometimes) conflicting factors is the core of sustainability, resilience, and risk assessments. The same is true for the preferences of the stakeholders involved in these complex processes. Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) is an excellent methodology to aid them because it offers the tools to deal with these assessments' complexities. MCDA aids the Decision Makers in problem structuring, preference elicitation and modeling, and problem-solving by providing the requested decision recommendations (e.g., ranking, sorting, choice).

This Special Issue aims to gather contributions that show how MCDA can be used to facilitate decision-making processes in sustainability, resilience, and risk assessments.

Without being exhaustive, the topics of primary interest for the SI include:

·       The process of MCDA methods selection and/or preferences’ elicitation;

·       The steps followed to develop the MCDA;

·       How MCDA terminology and concepts are operationalized in the application domains, for example, when eliciting preference information or constructing a decision recommendation;

·       How Decision Support Systems (DSSs) can inform rapidly changing decision-making contexts;

·   The solutions adopted to solve difficulties encountered in the decision-making process, for example, during problem structuring and/or model development;

·   Inclusion of multiple stakeholders and consensus-building;

·   Uncertainty management;

·   Interactions between criteria.

Particular preference will be given to articles dealing with:

·       One or more Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs);

·       Life cycle-based evaluations;

·       Strategies to assess and/or manage the disruptions caused by COVID-19;

·       Technology management;

·       Policy-making support.

Each contribution must show a clear link with one or more application areas, namely sustainability, resilience, and risk assessments.

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1800 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

·       Multiple criteria decision analysis

·       MCDA

·       MCDM

·       Sustainability

·       Resilience

·       Risk assessment

·       Decision making

·       Technology management

·       Decision support

·       Remediation

Dr. Marco Cinelli, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Research Fellow https://sites.google.com/view/marcocinelli

Guest Editor

Institute of Computing Science, Poznan University of Technology, Piotrowo 2, 60-965 Poznań, Poland

e-mail: marco.cinelli@put.poznan.pl

Interests: sustainability, resilience, risk assessments; multiple criteria decision analysis; decision support systems; life cycle-based evaluations; statistical analysis

Assoc. Prof. Miłosz Kadziński,  https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Milosz_Kadzinski

Guest Editor

Institute of Computing Science, Poznan University of Technology, Piotrowo 2, 60-965 Poznań, Poland

e-mail: milosz.kadzinski@cs.put.poznan.pl

Interests: multiple criteria decision analysis; decision support systems; multiple objective optimization; data envelopment analysis; group decision and negotiation