Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis: State of the Art Surveys

Online-Ressource (XXXVI, 1048 p, online resource)

International Series in Operations Research & Management Science ; 78

Literaturverz. s. 891 - 897

Preliminaries; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Introduction; 1. Paradigms and Challenges; 2. Preference Modelling; 3. Conjoint measurement tools for MCDM; 4. ELECTRE Methods; 5. PROMETHEE Methods; 6. Other Outranking Approaches; 7. MAUT - Multiattribute Utility Theory; 8. UTA Methods; 9. The Analytic Hierarchy and Analytic Network Processes; 10. On the Mathematical Foundation of MACBETH; 11. Dealing with Uncertainties in MCDA; 12. Choice, Ranking and Sorting in Fuzzy Multiple Criteria Decision Aid; 13. Decision Rule Approach; 14. Fuzzy Measures and Integrals in MCDA

15. Verbal Decision Analysis16. Interactive Methods; 17. Multiobjective Programming; 18. Multiple Objective Linear Programming with Fuzzy Coefficients; 19. MCDM Location Problems; 20. Multicriteria Decision Aid/Analysis in Finance; 21. MCDA and Energy Planning; 22. Multicriteria Analysis in Telecommunication Network Planning; 23. Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis and Sustainable Development; 24. Multiple Criteria Decision Support Software; Index

CoverContents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- 1 Human Reflection about Decision -- 2 Technical Reflection about Decision: MCDA Researchers before MCDA -- 3 The Reasons for this Collection of State-of-the-Art Surveys -- 4 A Guided Tour of the Book -- 5 Acknowledgment to the Referees -- References -- Part I An Overview of MCDA Techniques Today -- 1 Paradigms and Challenges -- 1. What Are the Expectations that Multicriteria Decision Aiding (MCDA) Responds to? -- 2. Three Basic Concepts -- 3. How to Take Into Account Imperfect Knowledge? -- 4. An Operational Point of View -- 5. Conclusion -- Part II Foundations of MCDA -- 2 Preference Modelling -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Purpose -- 3. Nature of Information -- 4. Notation and Basic Definitions -- 5. Languages -- 6. Preference Structures -- 7. Domains and Numerical Representations -- 8. Logic of Preferences -- 9. Conclusion -- 3 Conjoint measurement tools for MCDM -- 1. Introduction and Motivation -- 2. Definitions and Notation -- 3. The Additive Value Model in the "Rich" Case -- 4. The Additive Value Model in the "Finite" Case -- 5. Extensions -- Part III Outranking Methods -- 4 ELECTRE Methods -- 1. Introduction: A Brief History -- 2. Main Features of ELECTRE Methods -- 3. A Short Description of ELECTRE Methods -- 4. Recent Developments and Future Issues -- 5. Software and Applications -- 6. Conclusion -- 5 PROMETHEE Methods -- 1. History -- 2. Multicriteria Problems -- 3. The PROMETHEE Preference Modelling Information -- 4. The PROMETHEE I and II Rankings -- 5. The GAIA Visual Interactive Module -- 6. The PROMETHEE VI Sensitivity Tool (The "Human Brain") -- 7. PROMETHEE V: MCDA under Constraints -- 8. The PROMETHEE GDSS Procedure -- 9. The DECISION LAB Software -- 6 Other Outranking Approaches -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Other Outranking Methods -- 3. Pairwise Criterion Comparison Approach -- 4. One Outranking Method for Stochastic Data -- 5. Conclusions -- Part IV Multiattribute Utility and Value Theories -- 7 MAUT ... Multiattribute Utility Theory -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Preference Representations Under Certainty and Under Risk -- 3. Ordinal Multiattribute Preference Functions for the Case of Certainty -- 4. Cardinal Multiattribute Preference Functions for the Case of Risk -- 5. Measurable Multiattribute Preference Functions for the Case of Certainty -- 6. The Relationships Among the Multiattribute Preference Functions -- 7. Concluding Remarks -- 8 UTA Methods -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The UTA Method -- 3. Variants of the UTA Method -- 4. Applications and UTA-based DSS -- 5. Concluding Remarks and Future Research -- 9 The Analytic Hierarchy and Analytic Network Processes for the Measurement of Intangible Criteria and for Decision-Making -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Pairwise Comparisons; Inconsistency and the Principal Eigenvector -- 3. Stimulus Response and the Fundamental Scale -- 4. Hospice Decision -- 5. Rating Alternatives One at a Time in the AHP ... Absolute Measurement -- 6. Paired Comparisons Imply Dependence -- 7. When is a Positive Reciprocal Matrix Consistent? -- t.

10.1007/b100605 [DOI]

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