Key Features:First book to cover an informal history of Multiple Criteria Decision MakingCovers decade-by-decade developments in MCDM, from early history until nowContains brief biographies and pictures of major contributors in the field.

This volume is based on lectures held at the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Multiple Criteria Decision Making and Risk Analysis Using Microcomputers that took place in Istanbul, Turkey from June 28 to July 8, 1987. The book considers aspects of multiple criteria decision making and risk...