https://bor.univie.ac.at/bor-summer-school-2024/
The EURO Working Group on Behavioural OR (EWG-BOR) is organising a EURO PhD
School in Vienna, September 16th–20th, 2024 funded by The Association for
European OR Societies (EURO) and EWG-BOR.
EWG-BOR was established in January 2017 as a platform for academics,
teachers and practitioners interested in behavioural OR (BOR). Behavioral
Operations research (BOR) studies how human behaviour, cognition and
emotions affects, and is affected by, OR-related activity, and how to use
this understanding to improve OR practice and education. This is a new
emerging area in OR which is receiving growing interest. The main
activities of EWG-BOR include the organization of dedicated streams in EURO
and IFORS conferences, workshops, PhD schools, as well as a regular online
seminar series. To date, these activities have been extremely well attended.
The summer school is a great opportunity to learn about BOR concepts and
the different ways to conduct BOR studies. It will bring together
international students and researchers with different backgrounds and
research interests, fostering interdisciplinarity and networking. Previous
summer schools on BOR (see e.g. http://bor.aalto.fi/summerschool.html) have
been very successful and people have made valuable contacts there.
The univie: summer school Behavioural Operations Research 2024 will offer
participants the opportunity to learn about BOR concepts and the different
ways to conduct BOR studies. It will bring together researchers with
different expertise and research interests, fostering interdisciplinarity
and networking opportunities that are particularly valuable for young
scholars. In addition, participants will receive 5 ECTS credits for
successful completion of the summer school.
Topics
Behavioral decision making
Human decision making is subject to various biases that cause deviations
from the concepts of rational decisions as formulated e.g. in expected
utility theory. In this part of the summer school, we will review the most
important bias phenomena that have bee identified in research. Starting
from the prescriptive perspective of utility theory, we identify how these
biases violate the axioms of rational decision making. We then review
empirical research that indicates how they can be detected and how
frequently they occur. Finally, we will consider methods to counterbalance
the bias phenomena. Small in-class experiments will allow participants to
test to the rationality of their own decision making.
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Decision neuroscience
Decision neuroscience studies are contextualized within behavioral decision
making in the sense that biases and deviations from the rational choices
can be investigated using neuroscience tools in the behavioral experiments.
An overview and description of the main communities in this topic will be
considered, including neuroeconomics and their focus on expected utility
theory and decision under risk. The presentation includes a brief
description of the main tools applied in Decision neuroscience. Then, a few
experiments and their results are presented with focus on modulating
decision making methods and their decision support systems.
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Stakeholder involvement and large groups
Public policy and environmental decisions are typically complex, because
many people with different interests are potentially involved in, or
affected by the outcome. Such decisions can be addressed with
Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA), understood as a methodology that
encompasses different methods such as problem structuring (e.g.,
stakeholder analysis, brainstorming objectives and options), preference
elicitation (e.g., weights, value functions), MCDA modelling, and
uncertainty analyses. In such settings, stakeholders typically participate
in large workshops, or with (online) surveys; but the rigorous use of MCDA
remains a challenge. After introducing a stepwise approach to
Multi-Attribute Value Theory (MAVT), including uncertainty, I will focus on
behavioral challenges and some results from recent quasi-experimental
approaches. Participants will have the opportunity to participate in
preference elicitation using different approaches and implement the
elicited preferences into our software ValueDecisions to calculate MCDA. We
will shortly discuss and compare the approaches .
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Group facilitation
Facilitation is helping a group (hereafter referred to as team) in making a
decision, by attending to procedure and process. Facilitation starts with
designing a decision support intervention. Choices such as the scope of the
problem, roles of the analyst and team members, who will be involved, the
environment and approach to sharing and combining information drive the
design of an intervention. While these choices set the stage, much of the
skill of facilitation involves steering the ongoing interaction of a team.
Regardless of the particular approach or method chosen, teams will always
need to share ideas, converge information into categories or a model, and
prioritize between options. While exchanging information is the more
visible part of team interaction, decision making is also about the
undercurrent of conflicts and emotions. A facilitator can take particular
actions to increase or decrease the level of conflict, work towards agreed
upon group products and arrive at solutions that the team commits to.
Timeline/Important Dates
Early Bird application
22.03.2024-31.05.2024
The scientific committee will view your application and inform you about
whether you were accepted to the summer school within 2 weeks.
To complete the process the participation fee must be paid and a
confirmation uploaded within 2 weeks of acceptance.
Late registration
01.06.2024-10.07.2024
The scientific committee will view your application and inform you about
whether you were accepted to the summer school within 2 weeks.
To complete the process the participation fee must be paid and a
confirmation uploaded within 2 weeks of acceptance.
Participation fee
Besides lectures and workshops, the participation fee will cover coffee
breaks, the social events (cocktail reception, Heurigen visit) and a public
transport pass for the week of the summer school.
Early bird:110€ 22.03.-31.05.2024
Late registration:140€ 01.06.-10.07.2024
Application will be possible until 10.07.2024 (10th of July,24)
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Dr Sarah Fores, FORS
Manager of EURO
<http://goog_1482421387>
<https://euro2024cph.dk/>
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