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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 on 26/7/1983 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 non
conventional preference modelling under an IRSIA research fellowship.
From 1994 to 2004, I was senior researcher
and from 1/10/2004 I am research director at CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
within LAMSADE, Université Paris Dauphine. For more details on my
research see my Research Interests and my Papers. Until today I published
two books, edited several books and special issues, besides publishing more
than 70 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'' (24 hours/year) in 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'' (24
hours/year) in the Master MODO, ``Management Science'', of Université Paris Dauphine.
From 2005 to 2011 I also taught ``Evaluation Methods'' at the Faculty of
Architecture at Alghero, University of Sassari, in Italy.
In the past I taught
``Multi-criteria Decision Support Methodology'' (48 hours) 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 17 PhD students and presently supervising two
more.
Presently I am the coordinator of the
Master “Peace Studies”
at Université Paris Dauphine.
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. I was invited professor at the Technical University of
Crete in 2000. I had an IRSIA distinguished fellowship at SMG, Université
Libre de Bruxeles in 2002. I have been visiting research associate at DIMACS, Rutgers University in 2003, 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. Among other
projects I particularly followed the Africa
project of EURO and initiate the new "Branding OR
Campaign".
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
ALGODEC Conference
in 2009 as well as of the 2nd
International Conference on Algorithmic Decision Theory, DIMACS, Rutgers University,
26-28 October 2011.
I served several administrative positions
within the LAMSADE and Université Paris Dauphine. From 2002 to 2005 I was
the head of the LAMSADE research team: Decision Aiding. I have been member
of the CNRS National Council in the Computer Science section from 2008 to
2012. Presently I am member of the Scientific Board of the Institute of
Computer Science (INS2I) of the CNRS as well of the Scientific Board of
INERIS. I have been responsible for many research projects and
international collaboration programs. From 2007 to 2011 I coordinated the COST
Action IC0602
on ``Algorithmic Decision Theory", a European networking activity
funded under the FP7. On the same topic I was co-organiser of the 2010-2013 DIMACS special focus (together with Fred Roberts)
and coordinating the GDRI “ALGODEC” jointly funded by a number of
European Institutions starting in 2011. Starting January 2012 I am the
director of the LAMSADE. I am also coordinator of the just established GDR
“Policy Analytics”, funded by the
CNRS.