The Choice Modelling Centre (CMC) at the University of Leeds will hold a one day international workshop on current topics in choice modelling in Leeds on 26 June 2014, with contributions by a number of leading scholars in the field.
An outline programme is shown below.
Registration is free, but space is limited, so please book your place early.
Outline programme
9:00: Stephane Hess & Charisma Choudhury: Welcome & Introduction
9:10-10:40: Progress and future challenges
Robert Cochrane: Discrete Choice after Forty Years - some implications of advances in behavioural science and economics for applications in consumer choice and business
John Polak: Ignorance really is bliss: Reflections on the ethics of choice modelling
Yoram Shiftan: The future of activity based models and their contribution to policy making
10:40-11:00: break
11:00-12:30: Panel session: data (brief presentations - ca 10 mins - followed by combined discussion)
Maria Börjesson: Travel Time in Stated Choice vs Travel Time in the Brain
Mandy Ryan: Using stated choice surveys to value health care: current practice and future prospects
Graham Loomes: Modelling and Testing for Extraneous and Intrinsic Noise in Experimental Choice Data
Charisma Choudhury: Choice modelling using ubiquitous data
Petr Mariel, Jürgen Meyerhoff: Linking perceived and objective choice task complexity using a hybrid choice model approach
12:30-13:15: lunch
13:15-14:45: Theoretical developments
Michel Bierlaire: Sampling of alternatives for large scale MEV models
Thijs Dekker: Welfare economics for context dependent non-RUM models, a RRM perspective
Anders Karlstroem: A computational neuroeconomic model of hypothetical bias
14:45-15:05: break
15:05-16:30: Panel session: transport and beyond (brief presentations - ca 10 mins - followed by combined discussion)
Nathalie Picard, André de Palma & Sophie Dantan: Joint mode choice among couples
Geoff Hyman and Andrew Daly: The Attribution of Transport User Benefits by Source using Discrete Choice Models
Aruna Sivakumar: Modelling the influence of social networks on choice behaviour: State of the Art and Looking Forward
Juan de Dios Ortuzar: Special choice modelling issues that arise when working interdisciplinarily