Advances in Best–Worst Method: Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Best–Worst Method (BWM2024)

This book contains the proceedings of BWM2024, The Fifth International Workshop on Best–Worst Method. The workshop, hosted by Delft University of Technology, was organized hybrid on two days 13 and 14 June 2024. BWM2024 aims to bring together researchers working on theoretical, methodological, and application studies on the Best–Worst Method, a multi-criteria decision-making method that was developed in 2015 and that since then has gained a lot of attention among researchers and practitioners from many different fields. Researchers can share their latest findings with their peers and discuss avenues for future research. Four lectures were given on the foundations of BWM on the morning of the first day, and 13 highquality papers were accepted for presentation, which were presented in four sessions in two days chaired by experts on different areas, including supply chain management, health, energy, manufacturing and entrepreneurship as well as methodological advancement. This book contains ten full papers. The papers are on applications of the several variants of BWM in different fields. We are very grateful to the authors for submitting their work and for having interactive discussions during the workshop. We also express our gratitude to the members of the scientific committee for reviewing the full papers. All papers were reviewed by at least two members of the scientific committee using a single-blind peer review process, and we did not use external reviewers. Reviewers evaluated the papers based on relevance, originality, rigor of the data collection and analysis, and presentation of the study. We are also grateful to Delft University of Technology for providing the infrastructure and to Springer for publishing the proceedings.