Current Position

I defended my PhD at University Paris Dauphine – Lamsade in 1991 about : Decision Support System and Optimisation Model. I defended my HDR at INPToulouse – IRIT in 2005 about : Collaborative Decision Support Systems.

• Professor at University Toulouse 1 Capitole – IT Faculty since 2010
• Manager of the Artificial Intelligence department – IRIT – since February 2021 with Nathalie Aussenac
• ENGAGE.EU : Task 4.1 UT1C Referent  – Task 4.2 consortium leader 
• Award 2018 of the INFORMS-GDN Section
• CNRS Delegation 2016
• Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Decision Support Systems Technologies (IJDSST), IGI Global Publisher, since 2010
• Vice-President for Membership and Publications of the INFORMS GDN Section

Research Aeras

• Decision Making
• Multicriteria Decision Making
• Decision Support Systems (DSS)
• Recommander systems
• Group decision Support Systems (GDSS)

Management

• Founder and Coordinator of the EURO Working Group on Decision Support Systems from 2000 to 2020.
• Coordinator of the Thematic Semester : Decision Making supported by the labex CIMI composed by three events :
  • Research / Industry day – UT2J – 21/03/2017
  • Workshop Decision Making – UT1C – 24-26/04/2017
  • Toulouse e-Democracy Summer School (TeSS) – UT3 – 27/06-4/07/2017
• UT1C IT Faculty Council elected member since 2014

Invited Talk

• Keynote Speaker
  • Group decision and Negotiation (GDN) 2018; 9-16 June 2018, Nanjing, Chine
  • International Conference on Agro BigData and Decision Support Systems in Agriculture; 27-29 May 2017, Montevideo, Uruguay
• Scientific Popularization
  • Cycle de Conférences organisé par le CDA : L’humain et l’environnement au défi de l’IA ? – UT1C- 30/01/2020 : L’IA d’hier à aujourd’hui –
  • Festival Je veux savoir – Quai des Savoirs – 30/10/2019 : L’intelligence artificielle peut-elle décider à notre place ?
  • AINIA – INNOPEN FOOD, Valencia, 13/11/2018 : How to support Group Decision Making? (20 participants).
• Doctoral program
  • Nanjing University of Aeronotics and Astraunotics (NUAA), Nanjing Chine, November 2019
    • From Decision Support Systems to Recommender Systems
    • Decision Support Systems: A Group Perspective
  • NorthWestren Polytechnic University (NPU), Xian, Chine, November 2019
    • Decision Support Systems: A Group Perspective
  • JiangsuUniversity of Science and technology (JUST), Zhenjiang, Chine, November 2019
    • From Decision Support Systems to Recommender Systems
  • Toamasina University, Madagascar, April 2019
    • MultiCriteria Decision making : Promethee
  • Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil, 12/18
    • How to support Cooperative Decision Making? Doctoral program – (40 participants)
  • Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brasil, 04/2016
    • Decision Support Systems: A Group perspective. Doctoral Course – (40 participants).
    • From Decision Support Systems to Recommender Systems. Doctoral Course – (40 participants).
  • University of Waterloo – Department of Systems Design Engineering SEMINAR, Waterloo, Canada, 18/01/2016
    • Decision Support Systems: A Group Perspective. (15 participants).
  • Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo – Canada, 14/01/2016
    • From Decision Support Systems to Recommender Systems. THE MS2DISCOVERY INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH INSTITUTE – (30 participants).

Editorial Activities

• Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Decision Support System Technologies (IJDSST) IGI Global since 2010
• Member of the Editorial board of the following journals :
  • Group Decision and Negotiation (Springer) Impact Factor pour 2012 : 0.897, since 2012
  • EURO Journal on Decision Processes (Springer) since 2012
  • International Journal of Decision Support Systems (Inderscience Publishers) since 2012
  • Operational Research An International Journal (The Scientific Journal of the Hellenic Operational Research Society- Springer) since 2008
  • Intelligent Decision Technologies (IOS Press Publisher) since 2007
  • Journal of Decision Systems (JDS) (Editions Lavoisier / Hermès) since 1992

Networks

EURO

• 2021 : Member of the Program Committe of the EURO 2021 – 11-14/07/2021 – 2700 participants – 50 parallel sessions
• 2021 : Chair of the jury of the Euro Distinguished Service Award
• 2020 : General Chair of the ICDSST 2020
• 2019 : Member of the jury of the Euro Distinguished Service Award
• Since 2000 : Coordinator of the Euro-Working Group on Decision Support Systems (EWG-DSS). This group organises every year the International Conference on Decision Support System Technologies (ICDSST).

GDN – INFORMS

• 2021 : Member of the Award jury
• 2020 : Member of the Award jury
• 2019 : Chair of the Award jury
• 2017 : Program chair of the GDN Conference – 14-18/08/2017

GDR Policy Analytics

Working group on Design and Implementation of Public Policy anaysis and evaluation

PhD Evaluation

Projects Reviewer and Selection committee member

Conferences organisation