Prof Adiel Teixeira de Almeida, PhD

Prof Adiel Teixeira de Almeida, PhD
Full Professor
Management Engineering
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-2757-1968
ResearcherID: www.researcherid.com/rid/G-9541-2012
Scopus Author Identifier: www.scopus.com/authid/detail.url?authorId=7102580955
Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com.br/citations?user=dn7QvzQAAAAJ

Short Bio

Adiel Teixeira de Almeida is Full Professor of management engineering at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco and founding coordinator of the CDSID (Center for Decision Systems and Information Development). Before his current position, he worked in business organizations as engineer and manager, including project manager and program manager of R&D projects. He holds a PhD in management engineering from The University of Birmingham, UK. He has a research fellowship Grantee for Productivity in Research from the Brazilian NRC (CNPq), since 1996. His main interests are in decision-making related to multiple objectives and group decision problems, which includes methodological issues and applications. He has received in 2017 the INFORMS GDN Section Award and the Georg Cantor Award from the International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making, in 2022. He has also received the Award for best Journal (EJOR) paper in Theory and Methodology by EURO (Association of European Operational Research Societies), in 2019, for the first paper related to FITradeoff method, which has been originated by him and his co-workers. He serves on the editorial board of scholarly journals, such as: Group Decision and Negotiation (Management Science Departmental co-editor), Information Sciences, IMA Journal of Management Mathematics, EURO Journal on Decision Processes and International Journal of Decision Support System Technology. He authored or co-author over 160 scientific papers in reviewed journals related to a variety of topics such as: Operational Research, Group Decision, Decision Systems, MCDM/A (Multicriteria Decision Making and Aid), Risk, Reliability, Maintenance, Safety, Quality, and Water Resources. He has been working as a consultant and with R&D projects for private and public organizations, where he has applied decision models in many contexts, such as: risk analysis, reliability and maintenance, project portfolio, R&D project portfolio, project management, strategic modeling, outsourcing, information systems, supply chain, and water management. Also, he has been an active member of the main societies related to Operational Research, Group Decision, MCDM/A, Risk, Reliability and Maintenance topics. He is an Associate Research Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (FIMA). He has served in the Executive Committee of the International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making (2015-2019), the council of the INFORMS MCDM Section (2017-2019), the council of INFORMS GDN Section (2015-2017) and as Vice-President (2017-02/2021) and President (03/2021-02/2022) of the INFORMS GDN Section. Currently, he is the Vice-President of INFORMS MCDM Section (2022-2023) and president elect of the INFORMS MCDM Section (2024-2025).

1. University degrees

  • BSc Eletronic Engineering (1980), Universidade de Pernambuco, Brazil
  • Master in Production Engineering (1985), Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
  • Ph. D. in Management Engineering (1994), The University of Birmingham, UK

2. Affiliations

  • Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Full Professor (2007 to present).
  • Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Associate Professor (2002 to 2007); Assistant Professor (1996 to 2002).
  • Engineer at Companhia Hidro Eletrica do San Francisco – CHESF (Power Electricity Company), for over 16 years, dealing with reliability, maintenance, Information systems and R&D projects.
  • Manager at CHESF, from 1986 to 1996, dealing with project management and management of R&D Program.

3. Major Awards, Honours, and Distinctions

  • The Georg Cantor Award from the International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making, in 2022.
  • The INFORMS GDN Section Award, in 2017.
  • The Award for best Journal (EJOR) paper Award in Theory and Methodology by EURO (Association of European Operational Research Societies), in 2019 , for the first paper related to FITradeoff method
  • Listed within the top 2% of scientists of their main subfield discipline in the area of Operational Research (Top 100,000 Cited Researchers Worldwide) by Public Library of Science (PLOS), in 2019 (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000918) and subsequently.
  • 3 international and 7 national best papers Awards for conferences.
  • The Jabuti Award (National literary award) for co-authoring the best book in Exact Science and Technology (Brazilian Book Chamber), in 2008
  • Received the 2008, 2012, 2020 and 2021 awards for supervising the best PhD thesis in Brazil for Engineering III area (which includes: Management Engineering, Mechanical Eng., Naval Eng., Aero and Space Eng.) from CAPES (Sponsor and accreditation provider of Postgraduate Program in Brazil)
  • Honorary Distinction of ABEPRO (Brazilian Association of Production Engineering), in 2021
  • Honorary Medal of Brazilian Navy (“Medalha Amigo da Marinha”), in 2020, for contributions in research
  • Technical Merit of the 1989 Jorge Newbery award (IEEE Argentina)

4. Bibliometrics

  • Hirsch Index (H-Index) of 48 According to Google Scholar, as of February 2023.
  • Hirsch Index (H-Index) of 32 According to Scopus, as of February 2023.
  • Hirsch Index (H-Index) of 27 According to Web of Science, as of February 2023.
  • His Erdõs number is 4, via Hannu Nurmi

5. Main Teaching and Academic Services

  • Manager of the process for implementing the Production Engineering Department at UFPE, including the undergraduate course and Postgraduate Program in Production engineering (MSc and PhD), 1996 to 2000.
  • Director of Postgraduate Program and Head Department at UFPE.
  • Member of Evaluation Committee of CAPES (Sponsor and accreditation provider of Postgraduate Program in Brazil), regarding Engineering III area; 2002 to 2010, including last two years as Deputy Coordinator.
  • Member of Evaluation Committee of CNPq (Brazilian Research Council), regarding Production (Management) Engineering (including operational research area), 2004 to 2007.
  • Lecturer of the MCDM Summer School of the International Society on MCDM, since 2016
  • Courses taught: MCDM/A, Group Decision and Negotiation, OR, Maintenance engineering, information system.

6. Editorial Board of Journals

  • Group Decision and Negotiation, previously as Associate Editor and now as Departmental Co-Editor of Management Science
  • Information Sciences
  • IMA Journal of Management Mathematics;
  • International Journal of Decision Support System Technology,
  • EURO Journal on Decision Processes;
  • Journal of Aerospace Technology and Management
  • Brazilian Operational Research Journal (Pesquisa Operacional); and other Brazilian Journals

7. Scientific Associations

  • Member of the Board or Council:
    • Vice-President of the MCDM Section of INFORMS, for the term 2022-2023; and president elect (2024-2025).
    • President of the Group Decision and Negotiation Section of INFORMS, for the term 2021-2022.
    • Vice-President for Meetings of the Group Decision and Negotiation Section of INFORMS, for the term 2019-2020.
    • Vice-President for Membership and Publications of the Group Decision and Negotiation Section of INFORMS, for the term 2017-2018.
    • Executive Council and Elected Officer (Secretary) of the Group Decision and Negotiation Section of INFORMS, for the term 2015-2016.
    • Elected Member of the Executive Committee of the International MCDM Society, for the term 2015-2019
    • Elected Member of the board of the MCDM Section of INFORMS, for the term 2017-2019.
    • Member of EWG-DSS Advisory Board
    • Operational Research Society of Brazil for ten years, holding the position of first vice-president for the term 2011-2014.
  • Membership:
    • Associate Research Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (FIMA)
    • International Society of MCDM
    • IEEE: Reliability Society; SMC Society; Management Eng Society.
    • INFORMS: Decision Analysis Society; GDN Section; MCDM Section; Qual Stas and Reliability GDN Section.
    • ESRA – European Safety and Reliability Association (on Behalf of UFPE).
    • Brazilians Societies: Operational Research Soc (SOBRAPO); Assoc of Postgraduate Program Prod. Eng.(ANPEPRO); Assoc Production Eng (ABEPRO).

8. International Research Fellowships

  • Founding Leader of INSID (National Institute on System Information and Decision – www.insid.org.br), a research network with Brazilian Universities and internationally distinguished researchers, which is the only INCT (National Institute of Science and Technology) accredited by CNPq (Brazilian NRC), in decision making area.
  • Main organizer of formal exchange agreement between UFPE and several Universities internationally distinguished in decision making.
  • Visiting Professor at Turku University, for a short stay in 2013

9. Publications

  • Main publications in scientific journals are in:
    • Information Sciences, European Journal of Operational Research, Group Decision and Negotiation, Omega (Management Science), Computers and Operations Research, Annals of Operations Research, IMA Journal of Management Mathematics, International Journal of Production Economics, International Transactions in Operational Research, Operational Research, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Reliability Engineering & Systems Safety, Quality and Reliability Engineering International, IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, Energy, Journal of Petroleum Science & Engineering, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Journal of Manufacturing Systems, Water Resources Management, and Resources Conservation and Recycling.
  • Books:
    • de Almeida, A T; Ekenberg, Love ; Scarf, Philip Zio, Enrico ; Zuo, Ming J. (Editors) Multicriteria and Optimization Models for Risk, Reliability, and Maintenance Decision Analysis: Recent Advances. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science. 442 pp, Springer, 2022 (in press)
      de Almeida, A T; MORAIS, Danielle Costa (Editors). Innovation for Systems Information and Decision: Third INSID. 1. ed. LNBIP: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020, 2021. v. 1. IX, 149 p
      de Almeida, A T; MORAIS, Danielle Costa (Editors). Innovation for Systems Information and Decision: Second INSID. 1. ed. LNBIP: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020, 2020. v. 1. IX, 127p
    • de Almeida, A T; Morais, Danielle C. ; Nurmi, H . Systems, Procedures and Voting Rules in Context – A Primer for Voting Rule Selection; book series Advances in Group Decision and Negotiation, vol 9. 1. ed. London: Springer Nature, 2019. v. 1. 218p
      Huber, S; Geiger, M.J; de Almeida, A T (Editors) . Multiple Criteria Decision Making and Aiding – Cases on Models and Methods with Computer Implementations. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, vol 274. 1. ed. London: Springer Nature, 2019. v. 1. 309p
      Amor, Sarah Ben; de Almeida, A T; Miranda, J. L.; Aktas, E. (Editors) . Advanced Studies in Multi-Criteria Decision Making. 1. ed. New York: Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2019. v. 1. 274p .
      de Almeida, A.T., Cavalcante, C.A.V., Alencar, M.H., Ferreira, R.J.P., de Almeida-Filho, A.T., Garcez T.V. Multicriteria and Multiobjective Models for Risk, Reliability and Maintenance Decision Analysis. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science. Vol 231. New York: Springer, 2015.
    • Several chapter books in Springer series of LNCS and LNBIP.
    • Some books published in Portuguese related to multicriteria decision Analysis, group decision and negotiation, reliability, and maintenance.
  • List of Publications can be seen in:
    • Main Publications in international scientific journals can be seen in: Appendix and links to ORCID; ResearcherID; Scopus Author Identifier; Google Scholar.
    • Conference papers and technological products and others can be seen in: Brazilian CV system : http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.do?id=K4787745P4

10. Services in Conference and Meetings

  • Keynote speaker, invited talks and tutorials
    • Keynote speaker at the 17th International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation, GDN 2017, held in Stuttgart, Germany, 14 – 18 August, 2017.
      Keynote speaker at the Joint International Conference of the INFORMS GDN Section and the EURO Working Group on DSS, Toulouse, June 10th-13th 2014.
    • Keynote speaker and tutorials at National conferences of Operational Research Soc; National conferences of Production Eng. Soc.
    • Tutorial IEEE Reliability Soc Conference, January 2016
    • Invited Tutorial PROMETHEE DAYS, in Montréal, 2016
    • Invited talks at Turku University (2013, 2016); Waterloo University (2014); several Universities in Brazil
    • Keynote speaker at IRIT workshop on ‘Decision Making: Computer Science and Mathematical points of view’, in Toulouse, supported by labex CIMI, 2017.
    • Keynote speaker at National Conferences of Brazilian Operational Research Society
  • General co-Chair of the 22nd International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation, GDN2022, in Moscow, Russia, in Hybrid Format , June 12 to 16, 2022.
  • General co-Chair of the 21st International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation, GDN2021, in Toronto, Canada, in virtual Format , June 6 to 10, 2021.
  • General co-Chair of the 20th International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation, GDN2020, Canceled due to COVID-19 Pandemic – Proceedings published 2020.
  • Program co-Chair of the 19th International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation, a Joint GDN-EWG/BOR meeting, GDN2019, in Loughborough, UK, June 11 to 15, 2019.
  • Program Chair of the 12th international annual meeting of the Group Decision and Negotiation conference (GDN2012) of the INFORMS GDN Section – http://www.cdsid.org.br/gdn2012/
  • Stream and session chair organizer:
    • Co-chair of Cluster on Group Decision and Negotiation in the 2022 INFORMS Annual Meeting, in Indianapolis, IN, October 16-19, 2022
    • Co-chair of Cluster on Group Decision and Negotiation in the 2021 INFORMS Annual Meeting, in Anaheim, CA, October 24-27, 2021
    • Co-chair of Cluster on Group Decision and Negotiation in the 2020 INFORMS Annual Meeting, in virtual format, November 8-11, 2020
    • Co-chair of Cluster on Group Decision and Negotiation in the 2019 INFORMS Annual Meeting, in the in Seattle, WA, October 20-23, 2019.
    • Cluster on Group Decision and Negotiation in the 2018 INFORMS International Meeting, Taiwan
    • Co-chair of Stream on Decision Support Systems for the 21st Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies, in Québec City, July 17-21, 2017.
    • Co-chair of Stream on ‘Modeling for Group Decision and Negotiation’ for Group Decision and Negotiation Conference, 2015, 2016, 2017.
    • Chair or Co-chair of sessions at many conferences, including GDN section-INFORMS Conference, since 2008; DAS INFORMS annual meetings; MCDM INFORMS annual meetings; EURO conferences IFORS conferences; Brazilian conferences of operational Research and Prod Eng.
  • Member of Program Committee of several Conferences, including:
    • Group Decision and Negotiation Conference – GDN section of INFORMS, in 2007-2022
    • International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making, Ottawa, 2017, 2019.
    • International Conferences on Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization – Association of European
    • Operational Research Societies (EURO), in 2011, 2013, 2015, 2019.
    • PROMETHEE Days meeting Permanent committee, since 2019
    • International Conferences on Modelling in Industrial Maintenance and Reliability (MIMAR) – Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, in 2011, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2021
    • ICDSST – International Conference on Decision Support System Technologies by EWG-DSS of EURO, in 2015-2022
    • EURO Mini-Conference Graz-2013 on Collaborative Decision Systems. – EURO.
    • EWG-DSS Thessaloniki-2013 Workshop. – EURO.
    • National conferences of operational Research, every year since 2005.
    • Other National conferences since 1999.
  • Main Conference Communications in:
    • Annual INFORMS meeting, DAS or MCDM invited sessions.
    • Annual meeting of the GDN section of INFORMS.
    • EURO or IFORS conferences.
    • MCDM conferences of the International Society on MCDM
    • ESREL conferences
    • Annual Conferences of the Brazilian Operational Research Society and Production Engineering Society.

11. PostGraduate and Thesis Advisor, Mentoring and other contributions:

  • Over 30 PhD thesis supervised and others under supervision
  • Over 10 Post Doctoral Fellows
  • Over 85 Master’s students have graduated
  • taught over 2,500 students in Brazil and dozens more overseas
  • Has delivered numerous talks in Universities of Canada, Austria, China, Finland and Brazil.
  • Has been examiner for PhD degree of Universities in Brazil and other countries, including Canada, Sweden, Australia and India.

12. Main Projects and Funding

  • Since 1996, has continuously held a CNPq (The Brazilian National Research Council (NRC) PQ Grant (Productive in Research Grant), including the current one.
  • Most projects are related to MCDM/A and group decision and negotiation processes.
  • Several research projects have received financial support from CNPq (Brazilian research council) and other research sponsors.
  • Several R&D projects have received financial support from Electricity, Gas and Oil Companies.
  • The total funding of these projects is over US$ 5 million.
  • Full list of projects in: http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.do?id=K4787745P4.

13. Other Professional Links:

14. Contact:

  • Mail Address: Cx Postal 7462 Pernambuco Recife 50.630-970 Brazil
  • Phone: 55-81-21268728, ext 237.
  • E-Mail: almeida@cdsid.org.br

Detailed CV: Appendix

Last updated on April, 2023