5-8 December 2023 – Stoos, Switzerland
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Theme of the 12th IFED forum
IFED forums feature issues in engineering decision making. The quantification and understanding of risk is critical in risk-informed decision making.
The 12th IFED Forum focuses primarily on how knowledge, memory, observations and predictive models may best be developed and applied to support the development of strategies for governance and management of risk, resilience and sustainability of engineered societal systems. This includes emerging challenges related to effects of climate change, geopolitical instability, cyber security, as well as how to establish and balance tradeoffs between decisions aiming to improve welfare, and their associated negative impacts to the environment.
- Objectives in engineering decision making – asking the right questions?
- Public policy decision-making
- Modelling of preferences of decision-makers and stakeholders
- Global risks and governance
- Climate change
- Multi-stakeholder and politically-influenced decision-making
- Socio-economic impacts on decision-making
- Intergenerational effects in decision making
- Resilience and sustainability of infrastructure systems
- Security of societal infrastructure systems
- Natural and man-made hazards
- Information, knowledge and modeling in decision making
- Memory and strategic knowledge preservation in risk management
- Decision ranking in the face of competing systems
- Epistemic uncertainty in decision ranking
- Probabilistic digital twins
- AI in risk informed decision making – threat or tool?
- Accuracy of long-term predictions
- Value of Information
Participation and call for abstracts
Please indicate your interest in participating in the forum by sending a short e-mail (including name, affiliation, address and phone) to [email protected]. Feel free to contact others whom you consider to have an interest in the theme of IFED 2023.
One-page abstracts of proposed contributions to the 12th IFED need to be submitted before 15 July 2023 to [email protected]. The final invitations to present contributions at the forum will be based on review and acceptance of the abstracts. Notification of the results of these reviews will be given before 15 August 2023.
The final program of the single-session conference will be available 15 October 2023. The IFED forum is designed to provide plenty of opportunity for participants to interact. There is sufficient time to present and discuss specific issues.
Final contributions in the form of papers and/or presentations are not due until the beginning of the Forum, December 5, 2023. We invite authors to bring along some hard copies which can be distributed to delegates during the conference. However, a written paper is not mandatory.
Following the IFED forum, selected authors will be invited to submit a journal-quality paper of their IFED contribution to a special issue of a journal to be designated in early 2024.
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