The description of complex phenomena in different scientific fields (such as poverty, well-being, sustainable development, social progress, quality of life, social cohesion, vulnerability, environment risk assessment) by a set of indicators has become increasingly important. When a decision is to be based on this set of indicators then ranking is one of the possible applications. Although indicator systems are widely applied and statistically investigated, there are still many questions open. The 12th International Partial Order Conference focuses on analysis of complex phenomenon by Multi-Indicator Systems.

We welcome work from all scholars and academics on any related to the topic of partial order theory, and/or its application to social indicators.

Program

Book of abstract

• Problem orientable evaluations as L-subsets (Adalbert Kerber)
• Some Efficient Sampling Designs Based on Partial Order Sets (Bardia Panahbehagh and Rainer Bruggemann)
• Identifying drivers of land degradation in Xilingol, China, from 1975–2015 (Batunacun and Ralf Wieland)
• Measuring gender equality: a comparison of different techniques to build synthetic indicators (Enrico di Bella, Filomena Maggino and Lucia Leporatti)
• Towards an Understanding of Complex Phenomenon: Applying Partial Order Theory to Multiindicator System (Filomena Maggino and Rainer Bruggemann)
• Dependent Indicators for Environmental Evaluation of Desalination Plants (Ghanima Al-Sharrah and Haitham M.S. Lababidi)
• Introduction of weights in poset-based synthetic indicators (Giulio Caperna)
• Assesing Inhomogeneous Indicatorbased Typologies through the Reverse Clustering Approach (Jan W. Owsiński, Jarosław Stańczak, Sławomir Zadrożny and Janusz Kacprzyk)
• There is no such thing as a free lunch! Who is paying for our happiness? (Lars Carlsen)
• Looking for Alternatives ? Split-shots as an exemplary case (Lars Carlsen)
• Building rankings from hierachical systems of ordinal indicators (Marco Fattore and Alberto Arcagni)
• Indicators for Sustainability Assessment in the Procurement of Civil Engineering Services (Nora Pankow, Rainer Bruggemann, Jan Waschnewski, Regina Gnirss, Robert Ackermann, Matthias Finkbeiner)
• Labour Status and Subjective Well-being A Partial Ordering Application in Synthesizing Dimensions of Subjective Well-being (Paola Conigliaro and Leonardo Alaimo)
• Evaluations as Sets over Lattices (Rainer Bruggemann and Adalbert Kerber)
• Crucial weights Towards an understanding of weightings by partial order theory (Rainer Bruggemann and Lars Carlsen)
• Tournament tables, Power-Weakness Ratio and Hasse diagrams: an informative combination for multi-criteria decisionmaking (Roberto Todeschini, Viviana Consonni, Davide Ballabio, Francesca Grisoni and Miriam Cortinovis)​
• Fear and punitivity study in the prison population of Thuringia as an indicator - partial order of fear? (Stefan Markus Giebel)
• Implementation of Hasse Diagram technique in environmental risk assessment (Stefan Tsakovski)
• Ranking Karnataka Disctricts by the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) and by Applying Simple Elements of Partial Order Theory (Tugce Beycan, B.P Vani, Rainer Bruggemann and Christian Suter)
• An attempt to explore survival strategies of African trees and bushes in two different landscapes by partial ordering techniques (Ulfia A. Lenfers and Rainer Bruggemann)

26-27 October 2018

University of Neuchâtel

Institute of Sociology

Fbg de l'Hôpital 27

2000 Neuchâtel