Luís Miguel Cândido Dias licenciou-se em Eng. Informática pela Fac. Ciências e Tecnologia da Univ. Coimbra em 1992 e obteve o Doutoramento em Organização e Gestão de Empresas (especialidade de Ciências dos Sistemas nas Organizações) pela Universidade de Coimbra em 2001. Realizou na mesma universidade Provas de Agregação em Gestão - Ciência Aplicada à Decisão em 2013. Actualmente é Professor Catedrático da FEUC (Fac. Economia da Univ. Coimbra), no núcleo de Métodos Científicos de Gestão. Tem leccionado diversas disciplinas nas áreas da decisão, investigação operacional e informática. Os seus interesses de investigação centram-se na análise de decisão multicritério, na avaliação de desempenho, na decisão em grupo e negociação, nos sistemas de apoio à decisão e em aplicações na área da energia e do ambiente.
Atualmente Diretor do CeBER - Centre for Business and Economics Research, membro da Comissão de Coordenação e Gestão da iniciativa "Energia para a Sustentabilidade" da Universidade de Coimbra, Presidente da Mesa da Assembleia Geral da APDIO (Associação Portuguesa de Investigação Operacional), e membro dos comités editoriais das revistas Omega - The International Journal of Management Science, EURO Journal on Decision Processes e Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis. Tem colaborado como avaliador para diferentes agências de financiamento (Academy of Finland, Cyprus’s Research Promotion Foundation, Dutch Research Council NWO, Poland's National Science Centre, Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia) e em provas de doutoramento (Univ. of Adelaide, Australia; Aalto Univ. and Univ. of Jyväskylä, Finland; Univ. Lisbon and Porto, Portugal; Univ. du Luxembourg; Univ. Politec. Madrid and Univ. Rovira i Virgili, Spain; Univ. Vienna, Austria; Univ Warwick, UK).
No passado foi membro do membro do Conselho Geral da Universidade de Coimbra (2016-2020), Subdiretor da FEUC com o pelouro da investigação (2015-2020), Vice-Presidente da APDIO (Associação Portuguesa de Investigação Operacional) (2016-2020), co-coordenador do Mestrado em Gestão da FEUC (2007-2015), co-coordenador dos cursos de Mestrado em Energia para a Sustentabilidade e de Doutoramento em Sistemas Sustentáveis de Energia (programa MIT Portugal) (2007-2015), Vogal da Direção do INESC - Coimbra (Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores) (2001-2007) e professor visitante na Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften (Faculty of Business, Economics and Statistics), University of Vienna, Austria (2015) e na Université Paris Dauphine (Paris IX), France (2007).
Tem mais de 70 artigos em revistas científicas internacionais com revisão por pares, tais como Computers & Operations Research, Decision Analysis, Decision Support Systems, European J. of Operational Research and Omega (na área da investogação operacional / Management science) bem como Applied Energy, Energy Policy, Environmental Science & Technology, International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, Journal of Cleaner Production (nas áreas de energia e ambiente).
Orientação de doutorandos
Economic and environmental sustainability in drinking water and wastewater services providers(2025)
António Luís Pereira do Amaral
Orientação
New constraints in project portfolio selection models(Em curso)
Jorge Humberto Gomes Noro
Orientação
Market dynamics of electric vehicles in Portugal: Coupling preference modeling and diffusion analysis(2019)
Gabriela Oliveira
Orientação
Integrating Multi Criteria Decision Analysis in Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment(2018)
Chongyang Du
Orientação
Blending Optimization of biodiesel produced with waste and virgin oils(2017)
Carla Sandra Patinha Caldeira
Orientação
Decision support methodology for national energy planning in developing countries: An implementation focused approach(2016)
Nathan Coenen Lee
Orientação
Multicriteria spatial decision support system for the location of biogas plants(2015)
Sandra Cristina Gonçalves da Silva
Orientação
Decision support process using the VIP Analysis system(2013)
Alecsandra Alves Veras Ventura
Orientação
A Retrofit Decision Support Approach for Improving Energy Efficiency and Indoor Environmental Quality in Buildings(2013)
Ehsan Asadi
Orientação
Sustainable Data Centers(2013)
Miguel Covas
Orientação
Decision aiding for managing natural radioactivity risks in water for human consumption (PhD in Geology)(Em curso)
Filipa Pinto Domingos
Orientação
Working Papers
Outside options and confidence in Zeuthen-Hicks bargaining
Projetos
WalNut - Closing waste water cycles for nutrient recovery
European Commission (Grant agreement ID: 101000752)Gender Equal Research @UC
EEA Grants - Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway ()Building Capacity in the Centre Region for Precision Medicine, Based on Genomics
CENTRO2020 (CENTRO-08-5864-FSE-000039)
Flagship Project “Global guidance on environmental life cycle impact assessment indicators” (3rd round)
A joint organisation of UN Environment Programme (UNEP) & SETAC ()Building HOPE - Building Holistic Optimization of Prosumed Energy
Portugal 2020, FCT (Carnegie Mellon-Portugal Program) (POCI-01-0247-FEDER-045930)
S4PLAST - Sustainable Plastics Advanced Solutions
COMPETE, Lisboa2020, Portugal 2020 (Projeto Mobilizador n.º 46089)
RT-CARE - Computational Approaches for Radiotherapy Planning of Excellence
FCT POCI-01-0145-FEDER-028030 (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-028030)
OPTIMA - Innovations in plant protection: Human Health, Environmental and Socioeconomic integrated life-Cycle analysis
European Commission (H2020-SFS-2017-2)STREAMLAB - Streamlined environmental and cost life-cycle assessment of building retrofits: a decision-supporting tool
FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (MITEXPL/SUS/0013/2017)CLAIM - Cleaning Litter by developing and Applying Innovative Methods in European seas
European Commission (H2020 Project No. 774586)Publicações
On the sigma-mu stochastic multicriteria analysis: Exact solutions for common particular cases. Omega, 127, 103093.(2024)
A novel sigma-Mu multiple criteria decision aiding approach for mutual funds portfolio selection. European Journal of Operational Research, 322, 589-598.(2025)
Promoting advanced medical services in the framework of 3PM—a proof-of-concept by the “Centro” Region of Portugal. EPMA Journal, 15, 135-148.(2024)
Confidence and Outcome Expectations in Bilateral Negotiations–A Dynamic Model. Group Decision and Negotiation, 33, 775-803.(2024)
Applying multi-criteria decision analysis to combine life cycle assessment with circularity indicators. Journal of Cleaner Production, 451, 141872.(2024)
Performance evaluation of emergency department physicians using robust value-based additive efficiency model. International Transactions in Operational Research, 30, 503 – 544.(2023)
A multi-criteria framework for the ecodesign of bio-based materials at early development stages. Journal of Cleaner Production, 427, 139268.(2023)
A multi-criteria assessment of the implementation of innovative technologies to achieve different levels of microplastics and macroplastics reduction. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 191, 114906.(2023)
Drivers of water utilities' operational performance – An analysis from the Portuguese case. Journal of Cleaner Production, 389, 136004.(2023)
Operational drivers of water reuse efficiency in Portuguese wastewater service providers. Utilities Policy, 83, 101591.(2023)
Eco-efficiency changes of the electricity and gas sectors across 28 European countries: A value-based data envelopment analysis productivity approach. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 87.(2023)
A stochastic method for exploiting outranking relations in multicriteria choice problems. Annals of Operations Research, 321, 165 – 189.(2023)
Project portfolio management considering the commitment of agents: A bi-objective model applied to administrative services. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 74, 1049 – 1062.(2023)
Confidence in bargaining processes and outcomes: Empirical tests of a conceptual model. EURO Journal on Decision Processes, 11, 100028.(2023)
Low cited articles in operations research / management science. Omega, 115, 102792.(2023)
Learning target-based preferences through additive models: An application in radiotherapy treatment planning. European Journal of Operational Research.(2022)
A multi-criteria assessment of policies to achieve the objectives of the EU marine litter strategy. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 180, 113803.(2022)
Meta-Rankings of Journals Publishing Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding Research: Benefit-of-Doubt Composite Indicators for Heterogeneous Qualitative Scales. In: Greco, S., Mousseau, V., Stefanowski, J., Zopounidis, C. (Ed.), Intelligent Decision Support Systems . Multiple Criteria Decision Making, (pp 245-268). Cham: Springer.(2022)
Avaliação Multicritério em Processos de Decisão. Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra.(2022)
A Delphi Based Approach to the Assessment of New Marine Litter Reduction and Processing Technologies. Frontiers in Marine Science, 9.(2022)
Multicriteria Decision Analysis Addressing Marine and Terrestrial Plastic Waste Management: A Review. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8.(2022)
Eco-efficiency in early design decisions: A multimethodology approach. Journal of Cleaner Production, 283, 124630.(2021)
Choice-based preference disaggregation concerning vehicle technologies. Central European Journal of Operations Research, 29, 177–200.(2021)
Sustainability assessment using the ELECTRE TRI multicriteria sorting method. In: Ren, Jingzheng (Ed.), Methods in Sustainability Science, (pp 197-214). Elsevier.(2021)
Preference elicitation approaches for energy decisions. In: Marta Lopes, Carlos Henggeler Antunes, Kathryn B. Janda (Ed.), Energy and Behaviour, (pp 353-388). Elsevier.(2020)
Modelling Consumer Preferences Using a Multiattribute Utility Based Elicitation. In: da Silva, Patrícia Pereira, S. Jorge, Patrícia Moura e Sá (Ed.), Emerging topics in management studies, (pp 325-346). Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra.(2020)
The potential learning effect of a MCDA approach on consumer preferences for alternative fuel vehicles. Annals of Operations Research, 293, 767-787.(2020)
Using Different Qualitative Scales in a Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Procedure. Mathematics, 8, 458.(2020)
Perspectives on Multi-criteria Decision Analysis and Life-Cycle Assessment. In: Doumpos, Michalis, Figueira, José Rui, Greco, Salvatore, Zopounidis, Constantin (Ed.), New Perspectives in Multiple Criteria Decision Making, (pp 315-329). Cham: Springer.(2019)
Group decision making with incomplete information: a dominance and quasi-optimality volume-based approach using Monte-Carlo simulation. International Transactions in Operational Research, 26, 318-339.(2019)
Multi-Criteria and Life Cycle Assessment of Wood-Based Bioenergy Alternatives for Residential Heating: A Sustainability Analysis. Energies, 12, 4391.(2019)
Planning strategies to address operational and price uncertainty in biodiesel production. Applied Energy, 238, 1573-1581.(2019)
On generating utility functions in Stochastic Multicriteria Acceptability Analysis. European Journal of Operational Research, 278, 672-685.(2019)
Analysis of cost-environmental trade-offs in biodiesel production incorporating waste feedstocks: A multi-objective programming approach. Journal of Cleaner Production, 216, 64-73.(2019)
Influence of Demographics on Consumer Preferences for Alternative Fuel Vehicles: A Review of Choice Modelling Studies and a Study in Portugal. Energies, 12, 318.(2019)
Multiple local optima in Zeuthen–Hicks bargaining: an analysis of different preference models. EURO Journal on Decision Processes, 7, 33-53.(2019)
Enriching the results of screening social life cycle assessment using content analysis: a case study of sugarcane in Brazil. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 24, 781-793.(2019)
Diffusion of alternative fuel vehicles considering dynamic preferences. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 147, 83-99.(2019)
Robust multi-criteria weighting in comparative LCA and S-LCA: A case study of sugarcane production in Brazil. Journal of Cleaner Production, 218, 708-717.(2019)
Life beyond the grid: A Life-Cycle Sustainability Assessment of household energy needs. Applied Energy, 255, 113881.(2019)
A multi-criteria approach to sort and rank policies based on Delphi qualitative assessments and ELECTRE TRI: The case of smart grids in Brazil. Omega, 76, 100-111.(2018)
Public policies for smart grids in Brazil. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 92, 501-512.(2018)
Performance evaluation of Portuguese mutual fund portfolios using the value-based DEA method. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 69, 1628-1639.(2018)
Assessing supply risks for non-fossil mineral resources via multi-criteria decision analysis. Resources Policy, 58, 150-158.(2018)
Identification of objectives for national energy planning in developing countries. Energy Strategy Reviews, 21, 218-232.(2018)
Life cycle assessment addressing health effects of particulate matter of mechanical versus manual sugarcane harvesting in Brazil. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 23, 787-799.(2018)
Allocating Shadow Prices in a Multi-objective Chance Constrained Problem of Biodiesel Blending. In: Berbel, Julio, Bournaris, Thomas, Manos, Basil, Matsatsinis, Nikolaos, Viaggi, Davide (Ed.), Multicriteria Analysis in Agriculture, (pp 133-149). Springer.(2018)
Eliciting Multi-Criteria Preferences: ELECTRE Models. In: Dias, Luis C., Morton, Alec, Quigley, John (Ed.), Elicitation - The science and art of structuring judgement, (pp 349-375). Cham: Springer.(2018)
Elicitation: State of the Art and Science. In: Dias, Luis C., Morton, Alec, Quigley, John (Ed.), Elicitation - The science and art of structuring judgement, (pp 1-14). Cham: Springer.(2018)
Potencial de melhoria de eficiência do tratamento de águas residuais em Portugal. Atas do 18.º Encontro de Engenharia Sanitária e Ambiental (ENASB) e do 18.º Simpósio Luso-Brasileiro de Engenharia Sanitária e Ambiental (SILUBESA). Porto, 10 a 12 de outubro de 2018. Associação Portuguesa de Engenharia Sanitária e Ambiental.(2018)
Bargaining steps and preference types in Zeuthen-Hicks Bargaining. In: Schoop, M., Kilgour, D.M. (Ed.), Proceedings of the 17th International Conference, GDN 2017, Stuttgart, Germany. 77-85. University of Hohenheim.(2017)
Multiobjective programming for sizing and locating biogas plants: A model and an application in a region of Portugal. Computers & Operations Research, 83, 189-198.(2017)
Beyond Value Function Methods in MCDA for Health Care. In: Marsh, Kevin, Goetghebeur, Mireille, Thokala, Praveen, Baltussen, Rob (Ed.), Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis to Support Healthcare Decisions, (pp 299-310). Cham: Springer International Publishing.(2017)
Estruturação do problema e definição de critérios para avaliação de políticas de apoio à inovação em redes elétricas. In: Castro, Nivalde, Dantas, Guilherme (Ed.), Políticas Públicas para Redes Inteligentes, (pp 129-158). Rio de Janeiro: Publit Soluções Editoriais.(2016)
Assessing Environmental and Health Impacts of Bioethanol in Brazil. Proceedings of the 22nd International Sustainable Development Research Society (ISDRS) Annual Conference.(2016)
An application of value-based DEA to identify the best practices in primary health care. Operations Research-Spektrum, 38, 743-767.(2016)
Foreword. Sustainable Cities and Society, 26, 419-420.(2016)
Uma revisão de três pacotes de software dedicados a problemas multiatributo. ENGEVISTA, 17, 288-307.(2015)
Benchmarking of maintenance and outage repair in an electricity distribution company using the value-based DEA method. Omega, 53, 104-114.(2015)
Applying multi-criteria decision analysis to the life-cycle assessment of vehicles. Journal of Cleaner Production, 107, 749-759.(2015)
Processo de decisão espacial multicritério e modelo multiobjetivo para a localização de centrais de biogás. XLVII SBPO – Simpósio Brasileiro de Pesquisa Operacional.(2015)
Allocating shadow prices in a multiobjective chance-constrained model for biodiesel blending. Energy for Sustainability 2015 - Sustainable Cities: Designing for People and the Planet.(2015)
Which criteria matter when selecting a conventional or electric vehicle. Energy for Sustainability 2015 - Sustainable Cities: Designing for People and the Planet.(2015)
Social sustainability of sugarcane production in Brazil. Energy for Sustainability 2015 - Sustainable Cities: Designing for People and the Planet.(2015)
Multi-Criteria assessment of data centers environmental sustainability. In: Bisdorff, Raymond, Dias, Luis C., Meyer, Patrick, Mousseau, Vincent, Pirlot, Marc (Ed.), Evaluation and Decision Models with Multiple Criteria: Case Studies, (pp 283-310). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg.(2015)
Stochastic comparative assessment of life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions from conventional and electric vehicles. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 20, 854-864.(2015)
Modelling consumer preferences for electric vehicles in Portugal: An exploratory study. Management of Environmental Quality, 26, 929-950.(2015)
Multi-criteria sustainability classification of dairy farms in a portuguese region. Assessment Methodologies: energy, mobility and other real world application, Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra.(2015)
Introduction. Evaluation and Decision Models with Multiple Criteria, (pp 1-13). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg.(2015)
Multi-criteria Environmental Sustainability Assessment with an Additive Model. In: Ruth, Matthias (Ed.), Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Environmental Studies, (pp 450-472). Northampton: Edward Elgar Publishing.(2015)
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