FUAD ALESKEROV


PERSONAL

Date and Place of Birth: January 23, 1951, Baku, Azerbaijan (USSR)

Wife: Inna Aleskerov

Sons: Emil and Tair Aleskerov; Daughter: Sara Aleskerov

Office Address:

Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Control Sciences

65 Profsoyuznaya Str. Moscow 117806 Russia

Phone (7) (095) 334-8869, Fax: (7) (095) 334-9331

E-mail: alesk@ipu.rssi.ru

EDUCATION

1969--1974, Student, Mathematics Faculty, Moscow State University

1974, Graduated from the Moscow State University, Mathematics

1981, Ph.D. in Management in Socio--Economic Systems (thesis title “Interval Choice”)

 

DISTINCTIONS AND AWARDS

1993, Doctor of Science in Social Choice Theory (thesis title “Local Aggregation Models”)

First prize: Vavilov's Scientific Society, 1986.

Second price: All--Union Exhibition on Advanced Studies, 1989.

First prize: Popov's Scientific Society, 1989.

 

EXPERIENCE

2002 - Visiting Professor, Ecole National Superior de Telecommunicacion, Brest, France

2002 - Visiting Professor, University of Turku, Turku, Finland

2001 – Visiting Professor, University Paris 1 (Pantheone, Sorbonne), France

1995 -- 2001, Visiting Professor, Bogazici University, Bebek,

Istanbul, Turkey

1992, 1994--1995, Visiting Professor, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA

2002 - Present, Head of Research Center for Political Processes

1991—1998, 2001- Present, Head of Research Department

1998-2001, Leading Researcher,

1989--1991, Research Sector Head

1986--1989, Senior Researcher

1980--1985, Junior Researcher

1975--1980, Ph.D student

1974--present, Institute of Control Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences (formerly, Institute of Automation and Remote Control, USSR Academy of Sciences)

 

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Member of

  • International Econometric Society;
  • The Society of Social Choice and Welfare;
  • International Society on Ecological Economics;
  • Public Choice Society;
  • American Mathematical Society;
  • Russian Society on Artificial Intelligence.

Founder and Head: All---Russian Conference on Non--Numerical Models of Information Processing.

Head: All---Union Seminar on Ordinal Data Processing.

Invited Expert:

    1. United Nations environmental summit, Rio de Janeiro, 1991;
    2. Administaration of the President of Russia Federation, 1993;
    3. Yapi Kredi Bank (Turkey), 1996 – 2001

 

Member of Editorial Board for the journals:

Mathematical Social Sciences,

Automation and Remote Control.

 

Invited Speaker:

  1. II All---Union Conference on Statistical and Discrete Analysis of Ordinal Data, Tallinn, 1984;
  2. II All-Union Seminar ‘Applied Problems of Macrosystems Management’, Moscow, 1987;
  3. All-Union Conference ‘Modelling of Regional Economics’, Tashkent, 1988;
  4. All-Union Conference on Modern Technologies and Software, Rostov--on--Don, 1988;
  5. III All-Union Conference on Combinatoric-Statistical Methods on Information Analysis and Data Processing, Odessa, 1990.

 

Editor:

  1. Proceedings of the II All-Union Conference on Statistical and Discrete Analysis of Ordinal Data, Tallinn, 1984;
  2. Proceedings of the III All-Union Conference on Combinatoric-Statistical Methods on Information Analysis and Data Processing, Odessa, 1990.
  3. Special issue of the journal Mathematical Social Sciences, 1994, no.3
  4. Russian translation of the book ‘On ethics and economics’ by A.Sen; 1987. (Russian translation is published in the publishing company "Nauka", 1996)
  5. Russian translation of the book "The Win-Win Solution", W.W.Norton, New York, 1999 (Russian translation is published in the publishing company "SINTEG", 2002)

  

Grants:

1) European Community:

    1. ACE-91-RO2, 1995-1996,
    2. INTAS Project ''Measurement and Aggregation of Preferences'', 1997-2000;
  1. Russian Foundation of Basic Research (95-01-00057A), 1995-1997;
  2. NATO Fellowship Program 1995-1996.
  3. Russian Foundation of Basic Research (02-01-00301), 2002-2003.

 

HEAD OF APPLIED PROJECTS:

  • Analysis of Development of Moscow Region, 1985--86, contract of the government of the USSR;
  • Evaluation of Ecological Situation in Yaroslavl Region, 1988, contract of regional government;
  • Information system 'Russia' for privatization, 1991, contract of government of Russia;
  • Evaluation of location of bank branches; contract with Savings Bank of the USSR, Dnepropetrovsk city;
  • Analysis of regional situation (Information system 'Region'), 1991--94 for 11 regions in Russia and other countries of CIS, contracts with regional governments;
  • Analysis of city development, for 24 cities of Russia and other cities of CIS, 1991--95, contracts of city councils;
  • Evaluation of the effectivity of bank branches performance; contract with Yapi Kredi Bank, 1996-1997;
  • Evaluation of citizens’ satisfaction with urban and living condition in the district (Sisli, Istanbul); contract with district council, 1997;
  • Evaluation of credit customers of a bank, contract with Yapi Credi Bank, Istanbul, Turkey, 1999-present.

 

Supervision of Master and Ph.D. Theses

Master Theses – 18, Ph.D. Theses - 2

 

PUBLICATIONS

Monographs:

1. Choice of Options (Foundation of a Theory), co-authored with Mark Aizerman, NAUKA Publishers, 1990 (in Russian) ISBN 5-02-014091-0

2. Elections, Voting, Parties, co-authored with Peter C. Ordeshook, Academia Publishers, Moscow, 1995 (in Russian) ISBN 5-7695-0011-5

3. Theory of Choice, co-authored with Mark Aizerman, Elsevier, North--Holland, 1995, ISBN 0 444 822100

4. Arrovian Aggregation Models, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordercht, 1999, ISBN 0-7923-8451-2

5. From Elections to Coalitions, co-authored with Hasan Ersel and Yavuz Sabuncu, Yapi Kredi Yayinlari, Istanbul, 1999 (in Turkish), ISBN 975-373-639-3

6. Utility Maximization, Choice and Preference, co-authored with Bernard Monjardet, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2002, ISBN 3-540-43089-X

 

Articles and papers in English:

1. “Decomposition of choice functions into a system of simpler functions,” with B. M. Litvakov and N. Zavalishin, Automation and Remote Control, 1979, no.3, 409-419

2. “An interval choice of alternatives and its expansion,” Automation and Remote Control, 1980, no.6, 129-134

3. “On decomposition of choice functions into a system of interval choices,” with B. M. Litvakov, and N. Zavalishin, Automation and Remote Control, 1981, no.7, 155-160

4. “Interval type Pareto rules in multicriteria decision making.” Preprints of the International Conference on Modern Decision Making Problems, Sofia, Bulgaria, 1983, 15-17

5. “Local operators in models of social choice,” with M. Aizerman, Systems and Control Letters, 1983, no.3, 1-6

6. “The Arrow paradox in group choice theory,” with M. Aizerman, Automation and Remote Control, 1983, no.9, 1211-1231

7. “Methods of processing of interval expert estimations,” with E. Bauman, and V. Vol'skiy, Automation and Remote Control, 1984, no.3, 384-389

8. “Functional local operators in voting theory,” with M. Aizerman, Automation and Remote Control, 1984, no.5: 79-88; no.6: 105-114: no.7: 108-120

9. “Analysis of procedures in collective and multi-criterial decision making,” with V. Vol'skiy. Preprints of the Ninth World Congress of International Federation of Automatic Control, Budapest, Hungary, 1984, 265-270

10. “Procedures of multicriterial choice.” Preprints of the IFAC/IFORS Conference on Control Science and Technology for Development, Beijing, China, 1985, v.2, 858-869

11. “Decision making procedures making use of voting procedures.” Proceeding of the Conference on Complex Control Systems, Varna, Bulgaria, 1985, 357-366

12. “Voting operators in the space of choice functions,” with M. Aizerman, Mathematical Social Sciences, 1986, vol. 11, no.3, 201-242

13. “Hierarchical voting,” with A. Vladimirov, Information Sciences, 1986, vol. 39, no.1, 41-86

14. “Structural properties of voting systems,” with M. Aizerman, Topics in the General Theory of Structures, M.Aizerman and E.Caianiello (eds), D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1987, 137-149

15. “Quasi-local operators of collective choice,” with A. Vladimirov, Automation and Remote Control, 1987, no.3, 127-140

16. “Choice of the Best Variants on Binary Relations and the Extrimizational Choice,” with V. Vol'skiy. Preprints of 10th World Congress on Automatic Control, Munich, Germany, 1987, v.5, 234-239

17. “Man-Machine System for a Rational Choice of Nature Conservation Strategy of Region,” Preprints of III IFAC/IFIP/IFORS/IEA Conference on Man--Machine Systems, Oulu, Finland, 1988

18. “General interval choice mechanisms and the functions generated by them,” with R. Agaev, Automation and Remote Control, 1993, no.4, 662-671

19. “Functional voting operators: the non--monotonic case,” with J. Duggan, Mathematical Social Sciences, v. 26, no. 2, 1993, 175-201

20. “Interval choice: classic and general cases,” with R. Agaev, Mathematical Social Sciences, v. 26, no. 3, 1993, 249-272

21. “Multicriterial Interval Choice Models,” Information Sciences, v. 80, nos. 1 and 2, 1994, 25-41

22. “Voting procedures in the space of choice functions: non-monotonic case,” with J.Duggan, Automation and Remote Control, 1994, no.1, 115-134

23. “Biorders' Family,” Preprints of the 4 Conference on Ordinal Data Analysis, Paris, France, 1995

24. “Correlation of inflation, money and output growths: an analysis of 114 countries”, with C.Emre Alper, Yapi Kredi Economic Review, v.7, no.2, December, 1996, 3-13

25. “Voting models in arrovian framework”, in ‘Social Choice Theory: re-examineed’, v.1, eds. K.Arrow, A.Sen, K.Suzumura, St.Martin Press, New York, 1997, 47-67

26. “On a degree of manipulability of collective choice rules”, with E.Kurbanov, Automation and Remote Control, 1998, no.10, 134-146

27. “A degree of manipulability of known social choice procedures”, with E.Kurbanov, in Studies in Economic Theory, v.8, ‘Current Trends in Economics: Theory and Applications, eds. S.Aliprantis, A.Alkan, N.Yannelis, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 1999, 13-28

28. “European Union Enlargement and Power Distribution in the Council of Ministers and the European Parliament: the Case of the Turkish Application”, with Gamze Avc? and Z.Umut Türem, New Perspectives on Turkey, 21, fall 1999, 103-124

29. “Power and coalitional stability in the Turkish Parliament (1991-1999)”, with H.Ersel, Y.Sabuncu, Turkish Studies, v.1, no.2, 2000, 21-38

30. ‘A clustering approach to some monetary facts: a long-run analysis of cross-country data, with Emre Alper, The Japanese Economic Review, v.51, no.4, 2000, 555-567

31. ‘Local Aggregation Models’, Automation and Remote Control, no.10, 2000, 3-26

32. 'Structural Dissimilarity in Turkish Banks 1988-1999', with H.Ersel, M.Mercan, Bogazici Journal Review of Social, Economic and Administrative Studies, v.15, no.1, 2001, 57-69

33. 'European Union enlargement: power distribution implications of the new institutional arrangements', with G.Avci, V.Iacouba, and Z.U.Turem, European Journal of Political Research, 41, 2002, 379-394

34. 'Binary representation of choice rationalizable by a utility function with an additive non-negative error function', Mathematical Social Sciences, v.43, no.2, 2002, pp. 177-185

35. "Simple and simplest semiorders in the problem of extremizational choice with additive error", Automation and Remote Control, no.2, 2002, 137-145

36. "Categories of Arrovian Voting Schemes", in Handbook of Economics 19, Handbook of Social Choice and Welfare, v.1, K.Arrow, A.Sen, K.Suzumura (eds.), Elsevier Science B.V., 2002, 95-129

 

Articles and papers in Russian:

1. “Location of transportation terminals for oil mining,” with A.Agamaliev, V. Danitzkiy, and V. Sarkisyantz, Gas Industry, 1980, no.6, 34-35

2. “New methods of supply of oil minings,” with V. Sarkisyantz, Gas Industry, 1980, no.9, 14-15

3. “On the economical decomposition of choice functions on the system of simpler functions,” with B. M. Litvakov and N. Zavalishin. Preprints of the Eighth All-Union Congress on Control Sciences, 1980, Moscow, Nauka, 427-429

4. “On approximation of vectorial-optimization choice by interval choice of options,” Problems and Methods of Decision Making in Management Systems, Preprints of All-Union Conference Moscow, 1981, 18-19

5. “Interval estimation and choice in decision making problems,” Methods of System Analysis . Preprints of All-Union Conference Moscow, 1981, 5

6. “Interval choice,” Modelling and Optimization of Complicated Control Systems, Moscow, Nauka, 1981, 105-110

7. “Arterial hypertension as an indication of hyperglycemia in the test of tolerance to glucose,” with A. Mazovetzkiy, G. Zukovskiy et al., Problems of Endocrinology, 1983, no.3, 32-35

8. “Local procedures of multicriteria choice.” Preprints of IV All---Union Conference on Operation Research, Moscow, 1983, 5

9. “Principles of mutually exclusive neutralities in the Arrow social choice problem.” Preprints of IX All-Union Congress on Control Sciences, Moscow, VINITI, 1983, 171-172

10. Invited lecture: “Formal methods of collective decision making.” Preprints of II All---Union Conference on Statistical and Discrete Analysis of Non--numerical Information, Tallinn, 1984, 18-28

11. “Models of collective decision making in hierarchical organizational systems,” with A. Vladimirov, Problems and Methods of Decision Making in Management Systems. Preprints of All-Union Conference, Moscow, 1984, 3-4

12. “Criterial-tournament representation of choice functions,” Theory, Methodology and Practice in System Analysis. Preprints of All---Union Conference, Moscow, VINITI, 1984, 5-6

13. “Theory of social choice,” with M. Aizerman, Control Systems-Theory and Technique. Proceeding of the Institute of Control Sciences, 1985, 27-38

14. “Local collective decision making procedures in different classes of the space of choice functions,” Data Analysis in Control Systems. Proceedings of the Institute of Control Sciences, Moscow, 1985, 62-69

15. “Analysis of procedures of best options choice on binary relations and numerical representation of these relations,” with V. Vol'skiy. Preprints of X All-Union Congress on Control Sciences, Alma-Ata, 1986, v.1, 349-359

16. “Experimental modelling of market mechanism of price formation,” with V.Vol'skiy and Z. Lezina. Preprints of All-Union Conference on Modelling of Economic Experiments, Tbilisi, 1986

17. “On the usage of multicriteria choice models in the problem of revealing of ecologically complicated areas,” with M. Vil'ner et al, Ecologic and Socio-Economic Criteria in the Environment Control System . Preprints of All-Union Conference, Samarkand, 1987, 90

18. “Nature conservation strategy formation in a region,” with M. Vil'ner et al., Applied Problems of Macrosystems Management . Preprints of the Second All-Union Seminar, Moscow, 1987, 150-152

19. “Synthesis of social choice models,” with M. Aizerman, Avtomatika , 1988, no.1, 74-83

20. “Modelling of the Moscow region,” with S. Novikov and S. Petrov, Modelling of Regional Economics. Preprints of All-Union Conference, Tashkent, 1988, 17

21. Invited lecture: “Decision support systems for evaluation of projects of regional development,” with S. Novikov and S. Petrov. Preprints of All-Union Conference on Software, Rostov-on-Don, UNIIPS, 1988, 3-7

22. “Interval choice models.” Preprints of IX Congress on Control Sciences, Tashkent, 1989

23. “Multivectorial choice models,” Combinatoric-Statistical Methods on Information Analysis and Data Processing. Preprints of III All-Union Conference, Odessa, 1990, 5

24. “The Condition of Representativity of Choice Function as a Generalized Interval Choice,” with R. Agaev. Preprints of the IV All-Union Conference on Statistical and Discrete Data Analysis, Odessa, 1991

25. “On the Dimension of Partial Orders.” Preprints of the IV All-Union Conference on Statistical and Discrete Data Analysis, Odessa, 1991

26. “Qualitative Models of Multicriterial Choice,” Methods of Analysis of Complicated Data, Proceedings of the Institute of Control Sciences, Moscow, 1991, 61-68

27. “The system for evaluation of urban territories,” with O.Sinitsin and V.Yakuba, Pribory i Sistemi Upravleniya, 1994, no.11, 16-17

28. “Electoral campaigns. Voting procedures and the problem of manipulation with public opinion”, in Modern Technologies of Management, Preprints of the Seminar ‘Modern Technologies of Management’, Control Science Foundation, Moscow, 1998, 101-114

29. "Fair Division?", Power, no.8, 2002, 75-76

 

Articles and papers in Turkish

1. “Procedures of Group Decision Making,” with Sencer Ecer, Maliye Yazilari (Financial Notes), 1997, no.55, 18-42

2. “Procedures and models of group decision making”, with Sencer Ecer, Suna Kili’ye Armagan, Bogazici University Press, 1998, 51-76

3. “Fair Division: is it an unrealizable dream or are there ways to to attain it?”, with H.Ersel, Iktisat, Isletme ve Finans (Economics, Management and Finans), #177, December, 2000, 7-17

4. “Disaster Management Systems – Problems and Solutions”, with L.Akin, Iktisat, Isletme ve Finans (Economics, Management and Finans), #179, February, 2001, 32-41

5. “Structural dissimilarities in Turkish banks”, with H.Ersel, M.Mercan, Active, #18, May-June 2001, 14-19

6. "Political Parties: Functioning and Behavior", with H.Ersel, Y.Sabuncu. Iktisat, Isletme ve Finans (Economics, Management and Finans), #199, October, 2002, 31-48

 

Working papers:

1. “Voting Operators in the Space of Choice Functions,” with M. Aizerman, California Institute of Technology, Social Science Working Paper 559, 1985.

2. “Taxation for Improving Regional Ecological Situation,” World Bank Conference on Ecological Economics of Sustainability, Washington D.C., 1990.

3. “Binary Relations, Numerical Comparisons With Errors and Rationality Conditions for Choice,” California Institute of Technology, Social Science Working Paper No. 812, 1992.

4. “Relational-Functional Voting Operators”, California Institute of Technology, Social Science Working Paper No. 818, 1992.

5. “Functional Voting Operators: The non-monotonic case,” with J. Duggan, California Institute of Technology, Social Science Working Paper No. 858, 1993.

6. “Inflation, Money, and Output Growths: Some Observations,” with C.Emre Alper, Bogazici University Research Paper, #SBE 96-06, 1996

7. “Multicriterial Methods for Evaluating the Bank Branches Performance,” with H.Ersel, R.Yolalan, Yapi Kredi Discussion Paper Series, No:97-01, 1997, Istanbul, Turkey

8. “Clustering Turkish Commercial Banks According to Structural Similarities,” with H.Ersel, R.Yolalan, Yapi Kredi Discussion Paper Series, No:97-02, 1997, Istanbul, Turkey

9. “Environmental Grouping of Bank Branches and their Performances”, with H.Ersel, C.Gundes, A.Minibas, R.Yolalan, Yapi Kredi Discussion Paper Series, No:97-03, 1997, Istanbul, Turkey

10. “Degree of Manipulability of Social Choice Procedures (the results of computational experiments,” with E.Kurbanov, Bogazici University Research Paper, #SBE 97-03, 1997

11. “A Multicriterial Method for Personnel Allocation among Bank Branches”, with H.Ersel, C.Gundes, R.Yolalan, Yapi Kredi Discussion Paper Series, No:98-01, 1998, Istanbul, Turkey

12. “Relationship between a Bank and Commercial Customers: Evaluation by Multicriterial Ordinal Ranking Model”, with M.D.Yavuz, Yapi Kredi Discussion Paper Series, No:98-02, 1998, Istanbul, Turkey

13. “Electoral Systems and Stability”, with Ali Çarko?lu, Bogazici University Research Paper, #ISS/EC 98-01, 1998 (in Turkish)

14. “Choice and Binary Relations Representable via Utility Function and Supermodular or Multiplicative Error Function”, with Y.Masatlioglu, Bogazici University Research Paper, ISS / EC 98-02, 1998

15. “European Union Enlargement and the Consequences for Power Distribution in the Council of Ministers and the European Parliament: the Case of the Turkish Application”, with Gamze Avci and Z.Umut Turem, Bogazici University Research Paper, ISS / EC 99-02, 1999

16. “Multicriterial decision making model for evaluation credit customers”, with H.Ersel, R.Yolalan, Yapi Kredi Discussion Paper Series, No:99-05, 1999, Istanbul, Turkey

17. “Power distribution, inequality of power, and coalitional stability in the Turkish Parliament (1991-1999)”, with H.Ersel, Y.Sabuncu, Bogazici University Research Paper, ISS / EC 99-03, 1999

18. “Convexity of Choice Function Sets”, with R.Serkan Albayrak, Bogazici University Research Paper, ISS / EC-2000-01, 2000

19. “Decision Support System for Disaster Management: Subsystem for Evaluation of Human Losses and Injuries under Different Earthquake Scenarios”, with L.Akin, G.Altay. B.Basaran, C.Kurtul. A.Iseri, A.Toker, Y.Satir, Bogazici University Research Paper, ISS / EC 00-06, 2000

20. “Simple and Simplest Semiorders: Three Characterizations”, Bogazici University Research Paper, ISS / EC 01-08, 2001

21. "Preference, utility and choice: classic models", with Bernard Monjardet, CERMSEM, Universite Paris I (Pantheon-Sorbonne) , 2001.91, Paris, France, 2001

22. "A dynamic model of production, legal and illegal consumption of energy", with Baris Kaymak, Institute of Control Sciences of Russian Academy of Sciences, 2002

 

Miscellaneous:

1. “Foreword” to the special issue of Mathematical Social Sciences, 1994, no.3,

2. “On the Impact of Amartya Kumar Sen into Economics”, with Hasan Ersel, Iktisat, Isletme ve Finans (Economics, Management and Finans), #153, December, 1998, 17-28 (in Turkish)

3. “Russia with new president (2000-2004)”, Iktisat, Isletme ve Finans (Economics, Management and Finans), #169, April, 2000, 54-59 (in Turkish)

 

Articles in newspapers and magazines:

Several articles before 1998; many interviews on TV.

  1. Interview in the magazine ‘40th Parallel’, Baku, Azerbaijan, no.9, 1998, 22-24
  2. “Power index of parties”, with H.Ersel, Y.Sabuncu. Milliet, 19.01.99 (in Turkish)
  3. “Russia: look from Istanbul”, in Avrasya Isbiligi Perspektif, May 1999, no.17 (in Turkish and in Russian), 22-23 (presentation at the Conference organized by Centre of Strategic Studies of the Marmara University)
  4. “Turkey will not destroy equilibria ” with Gamze Avci, Milliyet, 10 August 1999. (in Turkish)
  5. “Political decision making mechanisms, electoral systems, and political parties” Interview in the journal “Iktisat, Isletme ve Finans”, no.161, August 1999 (in Turkish)
  6. “The pre-school of democracy”, interview in the newspaper ‘Bakinskiy Rabochiy’, October 7, 1999 (in Russian)
  7. “How to be elected to the presidential palace ”, with Remzi Sanver, Radikal, December 28, 1999 (in Turkish)
  8. “The roads to the presidential palace ”, with Remzi Sanver, Radikal, January 12, 2000 (in Turkish)
  9. “The term should be longer ”, with Remzi Sanver, Milliyet, February 2, 2000
  10. “Don’t forget: IMF in any case will help you ”, Power Ekonomi, February 2000 (in Turkish)
  11. “Risk passport against an earthquake ”, with G.Altay, A.Iseri, A.Toker, Milliyet, April 24, 2000
  12. “Serious capitals are not in a hurry to come to our country ”, Obschaya Gazeta, June 15-21, 2000 (in Russian)
  13. “Long term measures against the crisis”, Interview to the magazine Cumhurriyet, March 11, 2001 (in Turkish)
  14. “We are at the place where the sea ends “, with H.Ercan, Radikal, Mat 7, 2001 (in Turkish)

 

TEACHING:

Social Choice Theory

Rationality in Choice Models

Theory of Binary Relations

Introduction to the Theory of Political Processes

Comparative Electoral Systems

Game Theory for Economists

Game Theory in Political Science

Data Analysis

Utility and Measurement

Operation Research

Local Aggregation Models

Multicriterial Choice and Decision Making

Macroeconomics

Dynamic Macroeconomics