Personalization of Multicriteria Decision Support Systems

Abstract

The Dagstuhl Seminar 18031 Personalization in Multiobjective Optimization: An Analytics Perspective carried on a series of five previous Dagstuhl Seminars (04461, 06501, 09041, 12041 and 15031) that were focused on Multiobjective Optimization. The continuing goal of this series is to strengthen the links between the Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization (EMO) and the Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) communities, two of the largest communities concerned with multiobjective optimization today. Personalization in Multiobjective Optimization, the topic of this seminar, was motivated by the scientific challenges generated by personalization, mass customization, and mass data, and thus crosslinks application challenges with research domains integrating all aspects of EMO and MCDM. The outcome of the seminar was a new perspective on the opportunities as well as the research requirements for multiobjective optimization in the thriving fields of data analytics and personalization. Several multi-disciplinary research projects and new collaborations were initiated during the seminar, further interlacing the two communities of EMO and MCDM.