Abstract
The paper presents an overview of the history and achievements of trans-border cooperation in the Lithuania-Germany-Poland triangle in planning instruments in Construction Management, decision-making theory, application of Operational Research, and Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) methods in Civil Engineering and sustainable development. The cooperation and results of the Colloquiums with 35 years of tradition, their multidimensional nature is underlined. The research instruments, methods, studied phenomena are reviewed and characteristic applications in engineering and economics are presented. The knowledge and combined efforts of three academic centers have created a synergy which set in motion many original methods and spectacular implementations. The Colloquium calendar and the evolution of organizational forms are presented along with the inclusion of the informal EURO Working Group on Operations Research in Sustainable Development and Civil Engineering.
Highlights
Traditional methods of optimization, statistics and econometric analysis used in an engineering context are based on the assumption that the problem is well formulated, and decisionmakers typically evaluate a single goal, an evaluation criterion, or an approach
The modeling of engineering problems is based on a different logic, the conflicting goals of decision-makers that leads to the use of multiple criteria and the complex, subjective and diverse nature of the evaluation process
The key topic of the Colloquia was the issue of decision-making in civil engineering
Summary
Traditional methods of optimization, statistics and econometric analysis used in an engineering context are based on the assumption that the problem is well formulated, and decisionmakers typically evaluate a single goal, an evaluation criterion, or an approach. The modeling of engineering problems is based on a different logic, the conflicting goals of decision-makers that leads to the use of multiple criteria and the complex, subjective and diverse nature of the evaluation process. The nature of both cooperation formulas (the Colloquia and Working Group ORSDCE) together with the results is multidimensional; their review has been divided into theoretical (methods). In which the methods presented in our community were used or assessed, were included
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