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provides some basic concepts in multiple objective decision analysis and reviews its links to the choice theory. …This chapter discusses the concept of multiple objective decision analysis in regional economics. Until the end of the … 1960s, decision analysis was still dominated by simple optimization methods, such as single objective programming, cost …