Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Sorting Methods

Prof. Luis Martínez López received MSc and PhD degrees in Computer Sciences, both from the University of Granada, Spain. Currently, he is Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Jaén. His current research interests are fuzzy decision making, linguistic preference modelling, fuzzy systems, decision support systems, personalized marketing, computing with words and recommender systems. He has been the principle researcher in 16 R&D projects and has published more than 230 papers, as well as 33 book chapters. He is Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems and an Associate Editor of the journals IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Information Science, Knowledge Based Systems and Information Fusion. He received the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems Outstanding Paper Award in 2008 and 2012 and the IFSA Fellow 2021. He is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Technology Sydney, University of Portsmouth (Isambard Kingdom Brunel Fellowship Scheme), and at the Wuhan University of Technology (Chutian Scholar). He has also been recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher 2017-2022 in Computer Science according to the Web of Science. Prof. Alessio Ishizaka is Head of the Information Systems, Supply Chain and Decision-making Department and Full Professor of Decision Analysis, at Neoma Business School, France. He was research lead and deputy director of the Centre of Operational Research and Logistics at the University of Portsmouth. He received his PhD from the University of Basel (Switzerland) and worked successively for the University of Exeter (UK), University of York (UK), and Audencia Grande Ecole de Management Nantes (France). He has been a visiting professor at several universities in Italy, France and Germany. His research is in the area of decision analysis, where he has published more than 90 papers. He is regularly involved in large European funded projects and he has been the chair, co-organiser, and guest speaker of several conferences on this topic. He has written a key textbook Multicriteria Decision Analysis: Methods and Software. Dr. Jindong Qin is Associated Professor in Wuhan University of Technology and Director of Research Center for Data Science and Intelligent Decision Making. His current research interests are Multiple Criteria Decision Making, Sustainable (Green) Supply Chain Management, Fuzzy Group Decision Making, Risk Analysis, Robust Optimization, Uncertain DEA. He has been main researcher in 3 R&D projects and has published more than 85 papers in journals indexed by the SCI. Dr. Pavel Anselmo Alvarez-Carrillo is associate professor in the Department of Economics and Management at the Autonomous University of Occident, Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico. He holds a Ph.D. in Management Science from the University of Occident. He completed both B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Applied informatics from the Autonomous University of Sinaloa, Mexico. Alvarez’s research interests include Group Decision Support Systems, Multicriteria Decision Analysis and Data Mining. Alvarez completed a Postdoctoral project, on Multicriteria Group Decision Making, at the Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil. He served as Academic Staff of EurekaSD from Erasmus Mundus at Ulster University.

• 1. Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM)2. Sorting problem and MCDM methods3. MCDM Sorting Methods4. Fuzzy Sets and MCDM Sorting5. Analysis of MCDM Sorting methods6. Applications of MCDM Sorting7. Future Research and Concluding Remarks