Summer has been challenging, in many different ways. Many interesting things have been happening and breaking the rule of updating the blog at the end of each working week (or every 2nd week the latest) won't help me much in providing a good quality summary. Nevertheless, you can find below the main points of interest between week 8 (25-29/07) and week 16 (19-23/09), organised per project.
AMORE:
After the meeting with the partners from EDF, we summarised the data obtained from the experts throught the questionnaires and planned the next steps. Main points of work:
- Update of the criteria hierarchical tree, in order to take into consideration the experts' input (week 9)
- Re-design of the scales used that will be used in the 2nd expert questionnaire (weeks 8-9)
- Preparation of Intermediate report for delivery to project coordinator (week 8)
- Research on Group Decision (GD) theories for application into AMORE scheme (week 10)
TRUST:
This project is not a direct part of my work but we have been working on the development of a very interesting application in MATLAB environment for simulating aquifers for Groundwater level variation (GLV) project with the use of linear algebra and the calculating powers of the software. (weeks 8-10).
SUWAMA:
The SUWAMA conference took place in Istanbul in September 2011. During week 14, we have been intensively working on the preparation of two presentations on:
- Multicriteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) and Decision Support Systems (DSS)
together with Dr. Alex Zabeo, that included both theory about the abovementioned sectors as well as many examples and applications for fair understanding of the topic by the participants. They were delivered at the preparatory course, as part of the pre-conference activities.
Others:
- Participation at the seminar of Dr. Nobert (partner of KULTUrisk) regarding Ensemble Forecasts and Ensemble Prediction Systems (EPS) (week 16).
- Meeting with KULTUrisk partners (CVR, Department of Economics, Dr. Nobert-week 16).
- Introduction to NANEX project and the assessment of nanomaterials, for performing a sensitivity analysis in the near future.
- Attendance of PhD course (Calculus I) delivered by Prof. Giove (will last till mid-November).
- General study of various mathematic and other sectors:
- Matrix computations and Operations with MATLAB
- Outliers in statistics
- Group Decision Theories
- Sugeno and Choquet integrals
- Preferential Independence and Rationality
Note: I was on holiday for three weeks (11, 12 and 13).
