ORBEL 20

A possibly interesting gather escaped my attention until too late: the 20th Conference on Quantitative Methods for Decision Making, which was held yesterday and the day before. I particularly would have liked to hear two of the plenary sessions:

• Didier Dubois on "Non-Bayesian Statistics and Possibility Theory"
• Philippe De Wilde on "Micro-Economic Multi-Agent Systems that Trade Populations"

While many of the other topics presented appear to be quite abstract, there seem to be rather more which relate to real life than at ROADEF last year. To whit:

• Blocking probability in packet-switching bufferless telecommunication networks with a tree topology
• Econometric mathematical programming for agricultural policy support
• Air traffic flow management problem, constraint programming versus integer programming
• Constructing a consensus ranking in the case of missing data when no ties are allowed
• An axiomatic characterization of different majority concepts
  
• Decision model elicitation: Proposal of a new method and experimental comparison
• Trust networks in recommender systems
• A multiple criteria analysis for household solid waste management in the urban community of Dakar
  
• Multiple criteria decision analysis as a platform for the implementation of socially responsible development projects
• Decision aiding for the selection of road pavements and surfacing