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).
- Nanjing University of Aeronotics and Astraunotics (NUAA), Nanjing Chine, November 2019
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