Multicriteria Decision Making

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English | PDF | 1975 | 384 Pages | ISBN : 3211813403 | 20.2 MB
A considerable amount of research has been devoted recently to Multicriteria Decision Making, stimulated by the vast number of real problems, for example in industrial, urban and agricultural economics, in the social sciences, and in the design of complex engineering systems, where many decision makers are present or many, possibly conflicting objectives should be taken into account in order to reach some form of optimality.

A rough division into two classes may be made among the approaches to Multicriteria Decision Making problems. The first one deals mainly with the empirical determination of preference structures in some specific problems, and seeks methods for their meaningful aggregation in order to arrive, often by ad hoc and iterative procedures, at practically reasonable solutions. The lines of thought which are followed and the used methods may be looked upon as modern developments of operations research.
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