This volume contains a collection of papers presented at the 15th
International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making held in
Ankara, Turkey July 10- 14, 2000. This was one of the regular
conferences of the International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision
Making, which are held at approximately two-year intervals. The Ankara
conference had 195 participants from 38 countries. A total of 185 papers
were presented at the conference. The title of our volume is MCDM in the
New Millennium. The papers presented at the conference reflect the
theme. We had several papers on information technology (IT) and many
application papers. Of the 81 application papers presented, 14 appear in
the volume. We expect more IT applications of MCDM to appear in the
future, in particular in the areas of e-commerce and the internet. The
conference surroundings and accomodations were excellent, and conducive
to both an outstanding academic exchange, and enjoyment and a cultural
broadening of participants. We had a pleasant and enjoyable outing and
visit to the Anatolian Civilizations Museum. We also had an outstanding
banquet at which awards were presented. The MCDM Gold Medal was
presented to Professor Thomas Saaty, of the University of Pittsburgh.
The MCDM Presidential Service Award was presented to ProfessorPekka
Korhonen of the Helsinki School of Economics for his years of
presidential service to the society. The society presented the MCDM
Edgeworth-Pareto Award to Professor Alexander V. Lotov of the Russian
Academy of Sciences.