Advances in Best-worst Method: Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Best-worst Method Bwm2024

This proceedings book contains selected papers from the Fifth International Workshop on Best-Worst Method (BWM2024), held in Delft, the Netherlands, from 13 to 14 June 2024. It presents recent advancements in theory and applications of the Best-Worst Method. It provides valuable insights on why and how to use BWM in a diverse set of applications including health, energy, supply chain management, and engineering. The book highlights the use of BWM in different settings including single decision-making vs group decision-making, full information vs incomplete and uncertain situations. Academics and practitioners who are involved in multi-criteria decision-making and decision-analysis could benefit from the papers published in this proceeding.

Jafar Rezaei is Associate Professor at the Department of Engineering Systems and Services, Faculty of Technology, Policy, and Management, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. He completed his Ph.D. at the same university. He has a background in operations research and has published in several peer-reviewed journals. He is Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Mult-Criteria Decision Analysis and serves as Editorial Board Member for several scientific journals. In 2015, he developed the Best-Worst Method (BWM). His main research interests are in multi-criteria decision-making and its applications in different fields.

Matteo Brunelli is Associate Professor of Mathematical Methods at the Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Trento, Italy. He received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the University of Trento, Italy, and his Ph.D. from Åbo Akademi University, Finland. He spent five years as Postdoctoral Researcher at Aalto University, Finland. His research interests include decision analysis, preference modelling, mathematical representations of uncertainty, and fuzzy sets.

Majid Mohammadi is Postdoctoral Researcher at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU), the Netherlands. Prior to joining VU, he pursued postdoctoral research at Eindhoven University of Technology and completed his Ph.D. at Delft University of Technology, earning a cum laude, the highest distinction in the Dutch academic system. His research interests are in methodological contributions to various domains such as multi-criteria decision-making, machine and deep learning, Bayesian statistics, and statistical learning theory.