Euro is the "Association of European Operational Research Societies"
within IFORS, the "International Federation of Operational Research Societies"
EURO Working Group on Ethics and OR
| Name | EURO Working Group on Ethics and OR |
|---|---|
| Board | Cristóbal Miralles (Chair) - cmiralles@omp.upv.es Fred Wenstøp (Past Chair)- fred.wenstop@bi.no Giorgio Gallo - gallo@di.unipi.it Pierre Kunsch - pkunsch@vub.ac.be Dorien de Tombe - DeTombe@nosmo.nl Haavard Koppang - haavard.koppang@bi.no |
| Coordinator | Cristobal Miralles cmiralles@omp.upv.es Universidad Politecnica de Valencia Depto. Organización de Empresas Cami de Vera s/n 46022 Valencia Spain Phone: 963877007-76824 |
| Purpose and history | The EURO WORKING GROUP on 'Ethics and OR' gathers scientists, teachers and professionals in the field of Operational Research who are committed to inspire OR researchers, teachers, students, consultants and decision-makers to integrate ethical aspects and considerations in their OR research, teaching, consultancy and decision-making. The EURO Working Group on 'Ethics and OR' was formed in 2001 at the EURO XVIII Conference in Rotterdam, one year after the inspiring opening lecture of Professor J.P. Brans of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel on "OR, Ethics and Decision" at the EURO XVII Conference in Budapest (July 16-19, 2000). |
| Members | The EWG on “Ethics and OR” has 105 members that are researchers from almost all EURO countries. The communication among members is done through the following mailing list: ajimenez@fi.upm.es, alysson@icmc.usp.br, antonio.rodriguezchia@uca.es, aserrao@uevora.pt, atle.midttun@bi.no atle.nordli@bi.no b.goldengorin@rug.nl beerikba@online.no Bernard.DeBaets@ugent.ac.be, brans.jp@scarlet.be burkard@tugraz.at, c.j.cowton@hud.ac.uk, c.vandijkum@fss.uu.nl, candres@omp.upv.es, carl.bronn@bi.no, carlos.mataix@upm.es, Cathal.Brugha@UCD.IE, cgoksu@hotmail.com, cjmachar@vub.ac.be, clic.music@skynet.be, cmiralles@omp.upv.es cnh@foi.dk, dasaklis@unipi.gr, DeTombe@nosmo.nl, dfinlayson@btopenworld.com, domenico@iuav.it, e.pruyt@tudelft.nl, elkeh@MIT.EDU, Emmanuel.Picavet@univ-fcomte.fr epruyt@vub.ac.be, F.Dargam@SimTechnology.com, felix.rauschmayer@ufz.de, figlali@itu.edu.tr, Frank.Plastria@vub.ac.be, fred.wenstop@bi.no, gallo@di.unipi.it, gcristescu@inext.ro, gerhard.waescher@ww.uni-magdeburg.de, getlcl@vm.uff.br, Gilles.Coppin@enst-bretagne.fr, haavard.koppang@bi.no, heidi.hoivik@bi.no hittmann@csir.co.za, hmm@bior.de, HMM@BIOR.DE, hpolat@env.aegean.gr, i.r.vandepoel@tbm.tudelft.nl, ines.braune@tu-berlin.de, ingrid.hens@uhasselt.be, jclimaco@inescc.pt, jlozan@dpi.upv.es, johan.springael@ua.ac.be, johannes.brinkmann@bi.no jorgen.randers@bi.no jpbrans@vub.ac.be, jsoeiro@inescn.pt, jspronk@rsm.nl, kleinm@hec.fr, krarup@diku.dk, kristian.alm@bi.no leroy.white@bristol.ac.uk, luk.van-wassenhove@insead.edu lundberg@duq.edu, M.Roubens@ulg.ac.be, makalex@i.com.ua makalex@mmsa.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua, marc.despontin@vub.ac.be, marc.lemenestrel@upf.edu, marino.widmer@unifr.ch, matanseau@hotmail.com, meloni@deemail.poliba.it, mescobar@posta.unizar.es, mirg@fct.unl.pt, mmaraujo@dps.uminho.pt, mohsen.elhafsi@ucr.edu, moreno@posta.unizar.es, moreno@unizar.es, murkil@hotmail.com, nickmena@otenet.gr, nickrah@hotmail.com, pascal.vidal@cote-azur.cci.fr, Philippe.Lenca@enst-bretagne.fr, pikunsch@ulb.ac.be pkunsch@vub.ac.be, pmichael@aueb.gr, ptoth@deis.unibo.it, pvincke@ulb.ac.be, ruth.carrasco@upm.es, schneeweiss@bwl.uni-mannheim.de, serenay@mailcity.com, sgass@rhsmith.umd.edu, smitnet@wxs.nl, Soren.Wenstop@nhh.no, soysal@ayasofya.isl.itu.edu.tr, Stein.Malerud@ffi.no, stephane.andre@dauphine.fr, szburnaz@turk.net, topcu@ayasofya.isl.itu.edu.tr, trick@cmu.edu, tsoukias@lamsade.dauphine.fr, ulengin@itu.edu.tr, ulrike.leopold@uni-graz.at, vpostolica@ub.ro, yitopcu@turk.net, zarate@irit.fr, |
| Past activities | A stream organized by Leroy White at the IFORS 2011 International Confernence in Melbourne (July 10-15, 2011) "International Conference on Complexity, Uncertainty and Ethics” organized by Erik Pruyt at Delft-Netherlands on April 14-15, 2011. A stream on "Ethics and OR" organized by Cristóbal Miralles for the ICOVACS 2010 (International Conference on Value Chain Sustainability) at Valencia. November 15-17, 2010. A stream on "OR in Life Sciences and Education - Trends, History and Ethics" organized by Gerhardwilhelm Weber at the International Conference on Operations Research OR2010 at Munich. September 1-3, 2010. A workshop on the state of the art in connection with EURO XXIV organized by Dorien DeTombe, Cathal Brugha, Gerhard–Wilhelm Weber and Fred Wenstøp. A stream "OR and Ethics" with 8 presentations was organized for the EURO XXIV conference at Lisbon. July 11-14, 2010. A main stream on OR education, history & ethics at the 23rd European Conference on Operations Research in Bonn July 5-8 2009 was organized with a substream of two sessions on OR and ethics. Jean-Pierre Brans, the founding father of the EWG Ethics in OR organized a workshop 'Ethics in Decision-Making' during the Human Centered Processes (HCP) conference TU-Delft, The Netherlands. June 9-12, 2008. A main stream was organized on OR and ethics at the 22nd European Conference on Operations Research in Prague 2008, as well as a working group meeting. OR and ethics stream at IFORS 18th Triennial Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies 2007 A stream on OR and Ethics was organized at EURO 2006, Reykjavik EWG WORKSHOP ON 'PROMOTING ETHICS IN OR' - April 25-26, 2003 - INSEAD, FONTAINEBLEAU, FRANCE: Luk Van Wassenhove and Marc Le Menestrel hosted the highly succesful two-day INSEAD workshop on 'Promoting Ethics in OR', sponsored by the INSEAD R&D department, at the INSEAD campus in Fontainebleau. At this workshop, senior Operational Research scholars and ethical experts joined forces to synthesize the state-of-the-art of 'Ethics and Operational Research' at the theoretical, practical and institutional levels. Short papers were presented and discussions moderated in three parallel workshops, followed by synthesis, discussion and brainstorming in plenary sessions. Furthermore, avenues of research as well as practical and institutional actions aimed at favoring the integration of Ethics and Operational Research were developed. 12th MINI EURO CONFERENCE - April 2-5, 2002 - VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL, BRUSSELS, BELGIUM. Our working group actively participated in the organisation of the 12th Mini EURO Conference. The themes of the conference were Decision Support Systems, E- and M-Commerce, Multicriteria Decision Aid, Human-Centered Processes and, last but not least, Ethical Dilemmas in Decision Making. Many interesting papers on Ethics and OR were presented (some of these will be published in a special issue of EJOR). EURO XVIII CONFERENCE - July 9-11, 2001 - ERASMUS UNIVERSITEIT ROTTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS. The EURO Working Group on 'Ethics and OR' was founded in 2001 at the EURO XVIII Conference in Rotterdam. At this conference, the new EWG organised some sessions in co-operation with the EWG on Human Centered Processes. EURO XVII CONFERENCE - July 16-19, 2000 - BUDAPEST, HUNGARY. Here, Professor J.P. Brans of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel held his opening lecture on 'OR, Ethics and Decision' and proposed the 'Oath of Prometheus'. One year later, this resulted in the formation of the EURO Working Group on 'Ethics and OR'. |
| Future activities | The near future events planned by the group are: - A plenary tutorial on the ELAVIO Latin American Operations Research Summer School (Vale dos Vinhedos-BRAZIL: 5-10 February 2012), with part of the tutorial summarizing the EWG History and the new perspectives on Ethics and OR. - Three sessions inside the Stream “Ethics and OR” of the EURO 2012 in Vilnius. - A combined workshop inside EURO 2012 (possibly the first day) organized together with the Methodology of Societal Complexity (EUROMSC-EWG) and other interested groups. Initially Dorien DeTombe and Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber are the contacts to set this initiative. - A PhD Award to be announced in Vilnius during the EURO 2012. This award will be opened during the following academic year and will select the best PhD Thesis involving Ethics and OR topics. - A Group meeting during EURO 2012, in which the agenda for the following academic year will be decided (with a possible meeting during spring 2013 as a first proposal). |
| Publications | Most members of the Group have worked intensively on the topic of Ethics and OR through different approaches, and many of them have published in indexed journals of our area. The list would be very large but, in any case, there are three special issues that deserve to be highlighted since they were centered on the group itself: - A special issue of ITOR (International Transactions in Operational Research) was published July 2010 with papers based on the workshop on ETHICS IN DECISION MAKING June 9th at the HCP (Human Centered Processes) conference in DELFT (The Netherlands) on June 9-12,2008, organized by professor J.Pierre Brans (VUB-Brussels)(brans.jp@scarlet.be) - A special issue of Omega Volume 37, Issue 6, December 2009 on OR and ethics with Luk van Wassenhove and Marc Le Menestrel as editors gained significant popularity at ScienceDirect monitor of downloads April-June 2009. Most of the papers entered the top 25 list within Business, Management and Accounting, as well as withib Decision Sciences. Contributions were: Ethical Guidelines and Codes in Operations Research, by Saul I. Gass; Does the Best Practice of Rational-Style Model-Based Policy Analysis Already Include Ethical Considerations? by Warren E. Walker; Ethics and Operational Research: Ethical issues in tracking cellular telephones at an event, by Antony K. Cooper, Hans W. Ittmann, Theo Stylianides and Peter M. Schmitz; Ethics beyond the Model: How Social Dynamics Can Interfere with Ethical Practices in Operational Research/Management Science, by John Brocklesby; Challenge of Research Ethics Committees to the Nature of Operations Research, by Leroy White; Why good practice of OR is not enough - Ethical challenges for the OR practitioner, by Felix Rauschmayer, Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos, Pierre L. Kunsch and Marc Le Menestrel; Modeling complex ethical decision problems with Operations Research, by Pierre L. Kunsch, Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos and Felix Rauschmayer; On Operations Research and Value Conflicts, by Fred E. Wenstøp and Haavard Koppang; Opportunities and Pitfalls for Ethical Analysis in Operations Research and the Management Sciences, by Emmanuel Picavet. - A special issue of EJOR, dedicated to ethics and OR, has been published (European Journal of Operational Research, Volume 153, Issue 2, 1 March 2004). This special Issue of EJOR contains papers presented at the 12th Mini EURO Conference, held in Brussels (April, 2-5, 2002). Moreover, there is a fourth recent publication of the abstracts of the “state of the art workshop” of EURO Conference in Lisbon 2010: - Dorien DeTombe, Cathal Brugha, Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber, Fred Wenstøp (Eds.). Book of Abstracts of State of the Art Workshop LISBON 2010 Operational Research EUROMSC / EURO MCDA / EUROPT / EURO ORD / Ethics and OR, Volume 22. Publisher: Greenhill & Waterfront, ISBN /EAN 978-90-77171-34-9. July 2010 |
| Last modification | 2011-12-15 |
