Contact

Address	Bd de Pérolles 90 1700 Fribourg Switzerland
Email	benjamin.emmenegger(at)unifr.ch
HSLU docent	University of Lucerne (HSLU)

Benjamin Emmenegger

PhD Student in Computer Science

Research interests

In my work, I try to find a framework and methods, to build a tool and recommend processes for the public sector to make resilient and transparent decision in a hybrid, transdisciplinary and dynamic environment under consideration of fuzzy methods. These idea is based on following topics:

• Decision Making and Negotiation Techniques
• Fuzzy Sets, Methods and Decision Making
• E-Government and Collaboration
• Transdisziplinarity
• Participation Methods
• Argumentative Mining
• Smart Cities and Smart Regions

Summarization in Video

Teaching

Current lectures

• Business Math, HSLU
• Project Management, HSLU
• Management Game, HSLU
• Consulting, HSLU

Past lectures

• Advanced Business Math, HSLU
• Statistics, HSLU
• Pending management, PHLU
• Decision making in leadership, PHLU

Projects

Ongoing

• Doctoral Research in Computer Science: Conversation Theory-based communal Participation Systems

Completed

• Participation process: spatial planning on a traffic issues (Link)
• Future-process at Region Sursee-Mittelland (Link)
• Practise-Project: Merge and reorganise a musicschool
• Practise-Project: Creating a new ecological-network in a region (Link)
• Practise-Project: Creating and build a Playground under maximum participation of different stakeholders (Link)
• Masterthesis: objective decision making in the public administration - (anti-corruption) (Link)
• Bachelor thesis: internal controlsystems (IKS) in the public administration (Link)

Publications

• Emmenegger, B. (2025). Fuzzy voting models in decision-making: A human-centered approach to decision-making. In Portmann, E., Kaskina, A., and Terán, L. (Eds.), FM²quare Foundation Jubilee Book 2026 (Proceedings contribution, accepted). https://fm2.foundation
• Emmenegger, B., Zapletal, F., Hudec, M., and Portmann, E. (2025). Weighted multi-criteria decision-making with coalition strategies: a framework for citizens public participation. Central European Journal of Operations Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10100-025-00987-8
• Minder Schade, B., and Emmenegger, B. (2025). Nutzung von KI in der Lehre (Bericht). HSLU Informatik, Rotkreuz.
• Emmenegger, B. (2024). Ongoing Research Presentations: Public Opinion Making and Discussion using Fuzzy Methods. ICEDEG 2024 - Tenth International Conference on Edemocracy and Egovernment. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14761767
• Emmenegger, B., Bigea, G., and Portmann, E. (2024). Opportunities of fuzzy voting in decision-making and negotiation techniques in municipal and regional contexts. ICEDEG 2024 - Tenth International Conference on Edemocracy and Egovernment. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14761763
• Emmenegger, B., Bigea, G., Zapletal, F., Hudec, M., and Portmann, E. (2024). Application of the Three-Level Aggregation Model for Evaluating Opinions Under Hesitance for Fuzzy Voting in Spatial Planning Public Decision-Making. 42nd International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Economics (MME 2024). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15349479
• Schwarz Badertscher, D., Emmenegger, B., Hudec, M., Fivaz, J., and Portmann, E. (2024). Effects of fuzzy voting on citizen participation: Empirical evidence from Switzerland. ICEDEG 2024 - Tenth International Conference on Edemocracy and Egovernment. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14761767
• Emmenegger, B., Bigea, G., and Portmann, E. (2023). Applied Large-Scale Group Decision Making Using Systemic Consensus and Fuzzy Method of Comparative Linguistic Expressions. In Massanet, S., Montes, S., Ruiz-Aguilera, D., and González-Hidalgo, M. (Eds.), Fuzzy Logic and Technology, and Aggregation Operators. EUSFLAT AGOP 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14069. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39965-7_11