IJAHP News and Events: Karpak/Upcoming conferences of interest to the AHP/ANP community International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 1 Vol. 14 Issue 3 2022 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v14i3.1073 Upcoming Conferences of Interest to the AHP/ANP Community Birsen Karpak Distinguished Professor Emeritus Youngstown State University, USA bkarpak@ysu.edu There are three upcoming conferences that would be beneficial for the AHP/ANP community. I will present them in chronological order. The first conference is “The 23 rd Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies”, IFORS2023 STGO to be held in Santiago, Chile, July 10-14, 2023. Important Dates & General Information: December 1, 2022: Opening of abstract submissions March 15, 2023: Due date for abstracts submissions April 25, 2023: Early registration deadline March 1, 2023: Registration system is open May 10, 2023: Final registration deadline for authors In the scientific program, there is a cluster for Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis, in which there are already three active sessions: - AHP/ANP and Extensions (Birsen Karpak) - Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization (Ricardo Takahashi and Elizabeth Wanner) - New Frontiers in Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding (José Figueira, Salvatore Greco, Roman Slowinski) mailto:bkarpak@ysu.edu IJAHP News and Events: Karpak/Upcoming conferences of interest to the AHP/ANP community International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 2 Vol. 14 Issue 3 2022 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v14i3.1073 If you would like to propose any sessions in the MCDM area, contact Salvatore Greco (salgreco@unict.it). We are especially eager for submissions from our South American AHP/ANP friends. Second, the INFORMS Annual Meeting will be held in Phoenix, Arizona, USA, October 15-18, 2023. Phoenix is a popular location with INFORMS members. We are expecting some AHP/ANP and extensions scholars to participate in this conference. I am planning to invite our AHP/ANP colleagues from all over the world. In the scientific program, there is a cluster for Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis, in which there will be at least one AHP/ANP invited session: - AHP/ANP and extensions (organized by Birsen Karpak and Ilker Topcu) Last, but not least, is the MCDM 2024 conference. The Tunisian Decision Aid Society is organizing this international conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making which will be held in Hammamet, Tunisia, June 2-7, 2024. mailto:salgreco@unict.it https://mcdm2024.org/?page_id=53 IJAHP News and Events: Karpak/Upcoming conferences of interest to the AHP/ANP community International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 3 Vol. 14 Issue 3 2022 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v14i3.1073 The conference is an interdisciplinary forum for the presentation of recent developments and applications in the field of Decision Aid Sciences. This conference aims to disseminate recent models and techniques related to Multiple Criteria Decision Making through researchers and practitioners from all over the world. There will be rigorous plenary talks by invited speakers as well as contributed talks. A doctoral dissertation session for doctoral students in the early stages of their dissertation research will be organized during the conference, as well as a meet-the-editors session. Important Dates & General Information: September 15, 2023: Submission of session proposals February 15, 2024: Submission of abstracts March 15, 2024: Acceptance notice April 30, 2024: Early registration May 10, 2024: Preliminary program June 2-7, 2024: Conference dates Conference preparation is well underway even though the conference is not until June 2024. There will be quite a few AHP/ANP invited sessions at this conference. There has always been a large amount of AHP/ANP community participation in MCDM bi-annual meetings. We expect similar participation in 2024 as well. Please visit the website MCDM 2024 for further details. https://mcdm2024.org/?page_id=53