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Personal Notice: Until recently in this section you could find all
personal information concerning myself. A number of phishing
attacks convinced me to eliminate them. I can still report that I am Greek, but
also Italian, that I live in Italy and in France, that I am married and that I
have a son (Sirio). If you really need more precise personal information, I
will be delighted to provide them. Just write me.
Degrees
1976 high school
degree in Athens.
1983 I graduated
civil engineering studies in transportation in Politecnico
di Torino with a thesis on "Decision Processes Analysis: the case of the
Susa Valley road network".
1989 I got my PhD
degree in computer science and systems engineering from Politecnico
di Torino defending the thesis "Formalisation and representation of the
multi-criteria analysis approach by artificial intelligence techniques".
1997 I got my "Habilitation à
diriger la recherche" degree from
Université Paris Dauphine discussing the thesis "Sur la généralisation de concepts de
concordance et discordance en aide multicritère à la décision". My jury was
composed by Philippe Besnard, Ivar Ekeland, Henri Prade, Bernard Roy, Roman
Slowinski and Philippe Vincke.
Professional
activities
From 1990 to
1992 I hold a two years postdoctoral fellowship from Politecnico
di Torino.
In 1993 I
was with the ``Service Mathématique de la Gestion'',
Université Libre de Bruxelles, working on
nonconventional preference modelling under an IRSIA research fellowship.
From 1994 to
2004, I was senior researcher and since 1/10/2004 I am research director at CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) within the LAMSADE, Université
Paris Dauphine. For more details on my research see my Research
Interests (Decision Theory, Operational Research, Artificial Intelligence,
Policy Analytics) and my Papers. Until today I published two books, edited
several books and special issues, besides publishing more than 100 papers.
I
occasionally practice decision aiding for private and public organisations in
fields like transportation, quality evaluation, software evaluation, vendor
rating and regional planning.
Teaching
experience
From 1987
to 2007 I taught Quantitative Methods in the European Business School with
Technology of Politecnico di Torino. Under this
position I supervised more than 50 industrial placements of students. One of
these won the AMMA prize for the best report of the year (1991).
From 1994 to 2013 I taught ``Non classic logics''
for the Master ISI,``Computer
Science and Intelligent Systems'', of Université Paris Dauphine.
Since 1995
I teach, together with several other colleagues ``Artificial Intelligence
and Decision'' for the Master MODO, ``Management Science'', of UniversitéParis
Dauphine.
From 2005
to 2011 I also taught
``Evaluation Methods'' at the Faculty of Architecture at Alghero, University of
Sassari, in Italy.
Since 2014
I established the Graduate Program in Peace Studies part of the Master in International Affairs and Development of
Université Paris Dauphine. I coordinate this Program and I teach “Conflict
Transformation and Management”.
In the
past I taught ``Multi-criteria Decision Support Methodology'' at the
Operations Research Master Course of the Technical University of Crete(Chania),
I gave classes for the Master degree in Public Policy Evaluation and in
Transportation organised by Politecnico di Torino,
the MBA programme of University of Torino and for the ESSEC Executive MBA
programme, besides courses in many different Doctoral Training Schools around
the world. Until today I supervised 26 PhD students and presently
supervising one.
Varia
I have been
invited and gave lectures in several places including Université Libre de Bruxelles, Linköping University, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Russian Academy of Science,
Technical University of Poznan, Politecnico di Bari,
Universidad de Talca (Chile), University of Cyprus, Universidad Rey Juan
Carlos, Università di Padova, London School of Economics, University of Cape
Town, Université de Ouagadougou, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Université de Bejaia, École Polytechnique de Montréal, UQAM, University
College London, Australian National University, Singapore Management University.
I was invited professor at the Technical University of Crete in 2000. I had an
IRSIA distinguished fellowship at SMG, Université Libre de Bruxelles
in 2002. I have been visiting research associate at DIMACS,
Rutgers University in 2003 and in 2023, under a NSF
grant.
I have been
organiser and chairman of invited sections and streams in different
international conferences (EURO, MCDM etc.),
besides being invited for invited talks and tutorials (last in IJCAI 2009 and
RECSYS 2013). I am active member of the International Society on MCDM and of
the EURO working group on Multiple Criteria Decision Aid and founder of two
other EURO Working Groups: on Decision Support Systems (1990) and on Preference
Handling (2006). I am member of ROADEF, AIRO, ORS. Reviewer of different
international operational research and MCDM journals. Member of the editorial
board of Decision Analysis (an INFORMS Journal) and the EURO Journal on
Decision Processes; guest editor of the European
Journal of Operational Research, Annals of Operations Research and Mathematical
Social Sciences. Until 31/12/99 I was vice-president of ROADEF (the French Society of OR and Decision Aiding). I have been
secretary of EURO (the federation of European OR societies within IFORS) for
the years 1999-2002. I have been President of EURO, from 1/1/2004 to the 31/12/2006.
I served on
several Programme and Organisation Committees of OR and/or Computer Science
conferences. I was chairman (together with Patrice Perny)
of the XIX EURO Summer Institute on" Decision Analysis and Artificial
Intelligence", who took place at Toulouse, 9-22/9/2001. I was chair of the
1st and 2nd ALGODEC Conference in
2009 (Venice) and 2011 (Rutgers University).
I served
several administrative positions within the LAMSADE and Université Paris
Dauphine. From 2002 to 2005 I was head of the LAMSADE research team: Decision
Aiding. From 2012 to 2018 I was director of LAMSADE. I have been member of the
CNRS National Council in the Computer Science section from 2008 to2012, as well
as member of the Interdisciplinary section of Sustainable Development. From
2013 to 2017 I was member of the Scientific Board of the Institute of Computer
Science (INS2I) of the CNRS. From 2009 to 2017 I was member of the Scientific
Board of INERIS. From 2018 to 2023 I was senior advisor of the Human Resources
Director of the CNRS.
I have been
responsible for many research projects and international programs. From 2007 to
2011 I coordinated the COST Action IC0602on
``Algorithmic Decision Theory", a European networking activity funded
under the FP7. On the same topic I was co-organiser of the2010-2013 DIMACS special focus (together with Fred
Roberts) and coordinating the GDRI “ALGODEC” jointly funded by a number of
European Institutions starting in 2011. Co-PI for the MPE 2013+ 3 years project
funded by NSF. From 2011 to 2016 I coordinated the GDR (National Research
Network) on “Policy Analytics”, funded by the CNRS.