Financial Decision Aid Using Multiple Criteria: Recent Models and Applications

Dr Blanca Pérez Gladish is a Titular Professor in Quantitative Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Business Studies, University of Oviedo in Spain. Blanca is the responsible researcher of the Socially Responsible Investment and Sustainable Development Research Group. She is a board editor in for the International Journal of Portfolio Analysis and Management and associated editor for the International Journal of Energy Optimization and Engineering. Blanca's research focuses on Multicriteria Decision Making with particular interest in Socially Responsible Mutual Funds Portfolio Selection. Her research has obtained financial support from the University of Oviedo, MAPHRE, Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology, Spanish Ministry of Education and recently from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. She has been visitant professor in the University of Portsmouth (2004), University of Montreal (École Polytechnique, 2005), University of Oslo (2007), University of Quebec in Montreal (2009, 2010, 2011), University of Sydney (2008), Queensland University (2008), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (2010) and University of Montreal (2011). Blanca's work is published in internationally refereed journals as OMEGA, European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Applied Mathematics and Computation, INFOR and the Australian Journal of Management, among others.

Constantin Zopounidis is the Director of the Financial Engineering Laboratory. Prof. Zopounidis received his Doctorat D'Etat (1986) in management science, a D.E.A. (1982) in financial management from the University of Paris-IX Dauphine and a B.A. in Business Administration from the University of Macedonia.Prof. Zopounidis has been with the School of Production Engineering and Management of the Technical University of Crete, since 1987 and served as Chairman of the Department during the period 2001-2005.Prof. Zopounidis is elected member of the Royal Academy of Economc and Finance Sciences of Spain and Distinguished Research Professor at Audencia Business School, France. His research interests include financial engineering, financial risk management, and multiple criteria decision making. He has published over 450 papers in premier international journals, edited volumes, and conference proceedings. He has also published several books and edited volumes on financial engineering and operations research. Prof. Zopounidis is Editor-in-Chief and member of the editorial board of several international journals. For his research work, Prof. Zopounidis has received awards and honorary distinctions from international research organizations, including among others the ΜΟISIL International Foundation, the Decision Sciences Institute, the European Association of Management and Business Economics, the Royal Academy of Doctors of Spain, the Hellenic Operational Research Society, the International Association for Fuzzy Set Management and Economy, and the International MCDM Society.