Bernard ROY

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Address: Office P615

LAMSADE

Paris-Dauphine University

Place du Mal De Lattre de Tassigny
75775 Paris Cedex 16, France

tel: 33 (0)1 44 05 42 88

fax: 33 (0)1 44 05 40 91

roy@lamsade.dauphine.fr

Bernard Roy is Emeritus Professor at the Université Paris-Dauphine. He is the founder and, since 1999, honorary director of LAMSADE, a research group centered on the theme of deci-sion aiding. Since 1980, he his scientific adviser of RATP (the Paris city transport authority).
Bernard Roy is Graduate of the Institute of Statistics of Paris University (1957) and Doctor ès-Sciences Mathématiques of the Faculty of Sciences of Paris (1961). After an extensive consulting experience at SEMA-METRA, he joined the Université Paris-Dauphine in 1972 and created LAMSADE. He founded in 1975 the EURO Working Group "Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding" which invariably held two annual meetings since then. He is Doctor Hon-oris Causa from several prestigious universities. He received the EURO Gold Medal (the highest distinction granted by EURO, the Association of European Operational Research So-cieties) in 1992 and the MCDM Gold Medal granted by the International MCDM Society in 1995. He is the author of several books and hundreds of research papers. Bernard Roy has been the advisor of numerous graduate and doctoral students.

The main contributions of Bernard Roy are focused on two broad themes:

  • Graph Theory with path-breaking contributions on the theory of flows in networks and project scheduling (with the invention of the activity on nodes method).
  • Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding with the invention of the family of ELECTRE methods and methodological contributions to decision aiding that lead to the creation of the so-called "European School of MCDA"

Presently, his activity of research deals with two main topics:

  • Robustness in Operational Research and Decision Aiding.
  • Multicriteria tools for collective decision (what is called in French “concertation”).

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