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Sajid Siraj presented "Extracting pairwise comparisons information from textual data using opinion mining" at the 30th European Conference on Operational Research (EURO 2019), on 23rd - 26th June, in Dublin. Abstract below: With the emergence of big data, there is a huge amount of decision-making related information available which is still untapped due to the...
Richard Hodgett and Sajid Siraj both made presentations at the 25th International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM 2019) at Instanbul Technical University on 16th - 21st June. Richard presented on "SURE: A Method for Decision-Making under Uncertainty" and Sajid on Random spanning trees to elicit preferences from pairwise comparison judgements. Abstracts for both...
Gulbanu Kaptan and an interdisciplinary team of academics from the University of Leeds (led by Caroline Orfila from Leeds Global Food and Environment Institute) received funding from University of Leeds Pump-priming funding for Interdisciplinary Research Initiatives for a 2-year project on Mapping the Leeds urban food system and exploring the implications for social justice, and...
Dr Chris Riley, who had been a CDR PhD student supervised by Professor Barbara Summers and Professor Darren Duxbury (University of Newcastle) received an Outstanding Academic Performance prize for his PhD “Investor Reference Points: An Investigation using Experiments and Asset-Pricing Models”. This work has already given rise to a paper accepted in the top journal...
The members of the Centre for Decsion Research had a couple of articals accepted in June. Rachel Harcourt, Wändi Bruine de Bruin, Suraje Dessai, Andrea Taylor (2019). Investing in a good pair of wellies: How do non-experts interpret the expert terminology of climate change impacts and adaptation? Climatic Change Andrea Taylor, Astrid Kause and Barbara...
Over the part months Wändi Bruine de Bruin and Yasmina Okan of the Centre for Decision Research have been appointed to the following positions - Wändi Bruine de Bruin joined the peer review panel for the Lloyd’s Register Foundation / Gallup worldwide Survey on the Public Understanding of Risk Wändi Bruine de Bruin served as...
The Centre for Decision Research is happy to welcome Panagiotis Stamolampros. He has just started with the Managment Division of the Leeds university Business School as a Lecturer in Business Analytics. He joins the CDR from University of East Anglia where his research looks at the intersection of the fields of Finance, Operations Management and...
See below for the journal articles that the members of the Centre for Decision Research had published in April. Bruine de Bruin, W. & Morgan, M.G. (in press). Reflections on an Interdisciplinary Collaboration To Inform Public Understanding of Climate Change, Mitigation, and Impacts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) Okan, Y., Janssen, E.,...
The members of the Centre for Decsion Research had a couple of articals published over this over March. Van der Wal., C.N., Kok, R.N. (2019). Laughter-Inducing Therapies: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Social Science and Medicine, in press. Vedran Lesic, Richard Hodgett, Alan Pearman, Amy Peace, Wändi Bruine de Bruin (2019). How to improve impact...
In Januray Centre for Decision Research members published the following journal articles - Kause, A., Townsend, T., & Gaissmaier, W. Framing climate uncertainty: Frame Choices Reveal and Influence Climate Change Beliefs, in Weather, Climate and Society Margoni, F., Geipel, J., Hadjichristidis, C., & Surian, L. (2018). The influence of agents’ negligence in shaping younger and...