1 Introduction to Multiple Criteria Decision Making -- 1.1 Modern Society as a Problems Complex -- 1.2 General Characteristics of Modern Systems Analysis -- 1.3 Characteristics of Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis -- 1.4 Outline of the Book -- 2 Approach to Multiple Criteria Optimization --...

I. Intelligent Decision Support Systems -- An Interactive Knowledge Support System with Imperfect Information: Toward a Microcomputer Implementation of ARIADNE -- Object Model for a Deep Knowledge System -- A Distributed Problem Solving Approach to Control Asynchronous and Concurrent Processes...

I. Introduction -- II. Social Choice Theory -- 1. Voting -- 2. Social Choice Function -- 3. Social Welfare Function -- III. Experts Judgment and/or Group Participation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Brainstorming -- 3. Brainwriting -- 4. The Nominal Group Technique (NGT) -- 5. Synectics -- 6. Surveys...