BIOGRAPHY

Milan Zeleny, Professor of Management Systems, Fordham University

holds Dipl.Ing. from the Prague School of Economics, and M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Rochester. His other academic appointments include Columbia University School of Business, University of South Carolina, Copenhagen School of Economics, European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management (Brussels), School of Advanced Technology at SUNY in Binghamton, Irish Management Institute (Dublin), Department of Architecture of the University of Naples, Centro Studi di Estimo e di Economia Territoriale in Florence, EPFL in Lausanne, Contract of Excellence at the University of Padua and also a full professorship at The Tomás Bat'a University in Zlín, Czech Republic.
Dr. Zeleny is also the principal of ZET-Organization consultancy, President of the Central European Productivity Center (allied with Productivity International) and Director of the Czech Productivity Center in Prague.
He is the author of more than 350 papers and articles, ranging from operations research, cybernetics and general systems, to economics, history of science, total quality management, and simulation of autopoiesis and artificial life (AL). Articles on Integrated Process Management (IPM), Bat'a-System and Mass Customization were translated into Japanese, others into Chinese, French, Italian, Hungarian, Slovak, Czech, Russian and Polish. (He also published over 500 short stories, literary essays and newspaper articles in Czech, Slovak and English.)
He is currently the Editor-in-Chief, of Human Systems Management, an international journal. Serves on editorial boards of International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making and International Journal of Innovation and Learning, has also served on editorial boards of International Journal of Operations and Quantitative Management, Journal of International Strategic Management, Operations Research, Computers & Operations Research, Future Generations Computer Systems, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, General Systems Yearbook and Prestige Journal of Management and Research.

Awards:
Erskine Fellow, University of Canterbury
The Georg Cantor Award, International Society of MCDM
USIA Fulbright Professor, Prague, Czechoslovakia
A. Bernstein Memorial Lecturer, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Alexander von Humboldt Award, Bonn, Germany
Rockefeller Foundation Resident Scholar, Study Center
Norbert Wiener Award

As author, he recently published the Handbook of Information Technology in Business for Thomson International and the New Frontiers of Decision Making for the Information Technology Era for World Scientific. He is currently writing Human Systems Management: Integrating Knowledge, Management and Systems (World Scientific) and preparing Knowledge of Enterprise (World Scientific).
His earlier books include:
Multiple Criteria Decision Making (McGraw-Hill)
Linear Multiobjective Programming (Springer-Verlag)
Autopoiesis, Dissipative Structures and Spontaneous Social Orders (Westview Press)
MCDM-Past Decades and Future Trends (JAI Press)
Autopoiesis: A Theory of Living Organization (Elsevier North Holland)
Uncertain Prospects Ranking and Portfolio Analysis (Verlag Anton Hain)
Multiple Criteria Decision Making (University of So. Carolina Press)
Multiple Criteria Decision Making: Kyoto 1975 (Springer-Verlag)
and several others.