Readings In Multiple Criteria Decision Aid

Author : Carlos A. Bana e Costa
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 661 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783642759352

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Readings in Multiple Criteria Decision Aid by Carlos A. Bana e Costa Pdf

Multiple Criteria Decision Aid is a field which has seen important developments in the last few years. This is not only illustrated by the increasing number of papers and communications in the scientific journals and Congresses, but also by the activities of several international working groups. In 1983, a first Summer School was organised at Catania (Sicily) to promote multicriteria decision-aid in companies and to encourage specialists to exchange didactic material. The second School was held in 1985 at Narnur (Belgium) and I am pleased now to present the selected readings from the "Third International Summer School on Multicriteria Decision Aid: Methods, Applications and Software", which took place in Monte Estoril (Portugal), in 1988. was the quality of the contributions presented by the Such during the Summer School that I have decided to take lecturers advantage of this opportunity to produce a more carefully prepared and homogeneous book rather than a simple volume of proceedings. All the initial versions of the selected papers were revised and some, although not included in the programme of the School, were written in order to give a more complete overview of the MCDA field.

Author : Carlos A Bana E Costa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1990-09-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 364275936X

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Readings in Multiple Criteria Decision Aid by Carlos A Bana E Costa Pdf

Author : Salvatore Greco
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1063 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780387230818

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Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis: State of the Art Surveys by Salvatore Greco Pdf

Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis: State of the Art Surveys provides survey articles and references of the seminal or state-of-the-art research on MCDA. The material covered ranges from the foundations of MCDA, over various MCDA methodologies (outranking methods, multiattribute utility and value theories, non-classical approaches) to multiobjective mathematical programming, MCDA applications, and software. This vast amount of material is organized in 8 parts, with a total of 25 chapters. More than 2000 references are listed.

Author : Jason Papathanasiou,Nikolaos Ploskas
Publisher : Springer
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319916484

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Multiple Criteria Decision Aid by Jason Papathanasiou,Nikolaos Ploskas Pdf

Multiple criteria decision aid (MCDA) methods are illustrated in this book through theoretical and computational techniques utilizing Python. Existing methods are presented in detail with a step by step learning approach. Theoretical background is given for TOPSIS, VIKOR, PROMETHEE, SIR, AHP, goal programming, and their variations. Comprehensive numerical examples are also discussed for each method in conjunction with easy to follow Python code. Extensions to multiple criteria decision making algorithms such as fuzzy number theory and group decision making are introduced and implemented through Python as well. Readers will learn how to implement and use each method based on the problem, the available data, the stakeholders involved, and the various requirements needed. Focusing on the practical aspects of the multiple criteria decision making methodologies, this book is designed for researchers, practitioners and advanced graduate students in the applied mathematics, information systems, operations research and business administration disciplines, as well as other engineers and scientists oriented in interdisciplinary research. Readers will greatly benefit from this book by learning and applying various MCDM/A methods. (Adiel Teixeira de Almeida, CDSID-Center for Decision System and Information Development, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil) Promoting the development and application of multicriteria decision aid is essential to ensure more ethical and sustainable decisions. This book is a great contribution to this objective. It is a perfect blend of theory and practice, providing potential users and researchers with the theoretical bases of some of the best-known methods as well as with the computing tools needed to practice, to compare and to put these methods to use. (Jean-Pierre Brans, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium) This book is intended for researchers, practitioners and students alike in decision support who wish to familiarize themselves quickly and efficiently with multicriteria decision aiding algorithms. The proposed approach is original, as it presents a selection of methods from the theory to the practical implementation in Python, including a detailed example. This will certainly facilitate the learning of these techniques, and contribute to their effective dissemination in applications. (Patrick Meyer, IMT Atlantique, Lab-STICC, Univ. Bretagne Loire, Brest, France)

Author : Michael Doumpos,Evangelos Grigoroudis
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118522493

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Multicriteria Decision Aid and Artificial Intelligence by Michael Doumpos,Evangelos Grigoroudis Pdf

Presents recent advances in both models and systems for intelligent decision making. Organisations often face complex decisions requiring the assessment of large amounts of data. In recent years Multicriteria Decision Aid (MCDA) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques have been applied with considerable success to support decision making in a wide range of complex real-world problems. The integration of MCDA and AI provides new capabilities relating to the structuring of complex decision problems in static and distributed environments. These include the handling of massive data sets, the modelling of ill-structured information, the construction of advanced decision models, and the development of efficient computational optimization algorithms for problem solving. This book covers a rich set of topics, including intelligent decision support technologies, data mining models for decision making, evidential reasoning, evolutionary multiobjective optimization, fuzzy modelling, as well as applications in management and engineering. Multicriteria Decision Aid and Artificial Intelligence: Covers all of the recent advances in intelligent decision making. Includes a presentation of hybrid models and algorithms for preference modelling and optimisation problems. Provides illustrations of new intelligent technologies and architectures for decision making in static and distributed environments. Explores the general topics on preference modelling and learning, along with the coverage of the main techniques and methodologies and applications. Is written by experts in the field. This book provides an excellent reference tool for the increasing number of researchers and practitioners interested in the integration of MCDA and AI for the development of effective hybrid decision support methodologies and systems. Academics and post-graduate students in the fields of operational research, artificial intelligence and management science or decision analysis will also find this book beneficial.

Author : Hatem Masri,Blanca Pérez-Gladish,Constantin Zopounidis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319688763

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Financial Decision Aid Using Multiple Criteria by Hatem Masri,Blanca Pérez-Gladish,Constantin Zopounidis Pdf

This volume highlights recent applications of multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) models in the field of finance. Covering a wide range of MCDM approaches, including multiobjective optimization, goal programming, value-based models, outranking techniques, and fuzzy models, it provides researchers and practitioners with a set of MCDM methodologies and empirical results in areas such as portfolio management, investment appraisal, banking, and corporate finance, among others. The book addresses issues related to problem structuring and modeling, solution techniques, comparative analyses, as well as combinations of MCDM models with other analytical methodologies.

Author : Athanasios Spyridakos
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783031348921

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Multicriteria Decision Aid and Resource Management by Athanasios Spyridakos Pdf

This book is focused on the application of methodological approaches and systems of multiple criteria decision analysis (MCDA) in the field of resource management. Resource management constitutes a major challenge of modern times. The book comprehensively examines cases of human resources, material resources and natural resources in particular. It focuses on the efficient utilization of these resources to achieve sustainability of economic, environmental and social aspects. Also, the book presents methodological tools which aim to support the decision making at operational, executive and strategic levels.The book presents recent results of scientific research in the field of MCDA and its applications to resource management. It investigates the resource management challenges and introduces innovative methodological approaches and systems for addressing these resources management issues.

Author : Lotfi Azzabi,Dorra Azzabi,Abdessamad Kobi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030572624

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The Multi-Criteria Approach for Decision Support by Lotfi Azzabi,Dorra Azzabi,Abdessamad Kobi Pdf

This book presents the multi-criteria approach to decision support, as well as the various multi-criteria tools to help avoid multi-objective optimization. The book is intended as a tool for understanding the multi-criteria tools for decision support and modeling in mathematical programming. It helps to structure models, to easily model complex constraints, to have a basic modeling guide for any multi-criteria system and to better understand models already existing in the literature. The book is structured in the same order as components of the methodology, established in a multi-criteria optimization problem. It introduces the elements of the actors, the decision-making activity under criteria, calculations, specifications and objective criterion.

Author : Pratyush Sen,Jian-Bo Yang
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781447130208

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Multiple Criteria Decision Support in Engineering Design by Pratyush Sen,Jian-Bo Yang Pdf

Multiple criteria decision making tools have been developing at an extremely rapid pace over the last few years. This work explores the nature of the pursuit, using the authors extensive experience in the field. With its clear, concise approach combining industrial examples and case studies, this book will be of interest to graduate students, practicing engineers, and project managers.

Author : Zacharoula Andreopoulou,Christiana Koliouska,Constantin Zopounidis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319555652

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Multicriteria and Clustering by Zacharoula Andreopoulou,Christiana Koliouska,Constantin Zopounidis Pdf

This book provides an introduction to operational research methods and their application in the agrifood and environmental sectors. It explains the need for multicriteria decision analysis and teaches users how to use recent advances in multicriteria and clustering classification techniques in practice. Further, it presents some of the most common methodologies for statistical analysis and mathematical modeling, and discusses in detail ten examples that explain and show “hands-on” how operational research can be used in key decision-making processes at enterprises in the agricultural food and environmental industries. As such, the book offers a valuable resource especially well suited as a textbook for postgraduate courses.

Author : Philippe Vincke
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1992-07-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015025299267

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Multicriteria Decision-Aid by Philippe Vincke Pdf

Decision-aid Philippe Vincke Université Libre de Bruxelles Over the past decade the discipline of multicriteria decision-aid has been extensively developed in the world of mathematics. As its name indicates, multicriteria decision-aid aims to give decision-makers a tool which should enable them to advance in solving decision problems where several points of view must be taken into account. Written by one of the leading authorities in the field, this book provides a unique introduction to the foundations, models and methods of multicriteria decision-aid. Challenging the monocriteria decision-aid approach to problem solving, Vincke presents us with a unique book which deals with preference modelling, the multiple attribute utility theory, the outranking approach and interactive decision-making methods in the same text. Multicriteria Decision-aid is directed at graduates and postgraduates studying in the fields of management, operations research, decision analysis and all those who, in business and administration, wish to take part in decision-making through scientific reasoning.

Author : Panos M. Pardalos,Y. Siskos,Constantin Zopounidis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781475723830

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Advances in Multicriteria Analysis by Panos M. Pardalos,Y. Siskos,Constantin Zopounidis Pdf

As its title implies, Advances in Multicriteria Analysis presents the most recent developments in multicriteria analysis and in some of its principal areas of application, including marketing, research and development evaluation, financial planning, and medicine. Special attention is paid to the interaction between multicriteria analysis, decision support systems and preference modeling. The five sections of the book cover: methodology; problem structuring; utility assessment; multi-objective optimisation; real world applications. Audience: Researchers and professionals who are operations researchers, management scientists, computer scientists, statisticians, decision analysts, marketing managers and financial analysts.

Author : Michalis Doumpos,José Rui Figueira,Salvatore Greco,Constantin Zopounidis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030114824

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New Perspectives in Multiple Criteria Decision Making by Michalis Doumpos,José Rui Figueira,Salvatore Greco,Constantin Zopounidis Pdf

This book provides comprehensive coverage of the latest research on multiple criteria research analysis (MCDA) and related areas, gathering a collection of high-quality chapters prepared by leading scholars in the field. By covering the established streams in MCDA research and simultaneously exploring new and emerging areas of application, it offers a unique reference resource for the future development of MCDA. The book approaches MCDA as one of the most active areas in operations research and management science (OR/MS). It presents not only the significant advances achieved to date, but also the new opportunities and challenges arising for both the theory and practice of MCDA. Among many others, the book addresses behavioral and conceptual aspects of decision aiding and decision making, problem structuring issues in the framework of new technological and socio-economic advances, methodological and algorithmic advances for analytical modeling and decision aiding, as well as a number of new application areas in engineering, business, and the social sciences.

Author : Yacov Y. Haimes,Ralph E. Steuer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783642573118

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Research and Practice in Multiple Criteria Decision Making by Yacov Y. Haimes,Ralph E. Steuer Pdf

During the past two decades, the consideration of mUltiple objectives in modeling and decision making has grown by leaps and bounds. The nineties in particular have seen the emphasis shift from the dominance of single-objective modeling and optimization toward an emphasis on multiple objectives. The proceedings of this Conference epitomize these evolutionary changes and contribute to the important role that the tield of multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) now plays in planning, design, operational, management, and policy decisions. Of special interest are the contributions of MCDM to manufacturing engineering. For example, it has recently been recognized that optimal, single-objective solutions have often been pursued at the expense of the much broader applicability of designs and solutions that satisfy multiple objectives. In particular, the theme (MCDM and Its Worldwide Role in Risk-Based Decision Making) of the XIVth International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making (Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, June 8-12, 1998) represents the growing importance of risk-cost-benefit analysis in decision making and in engineering design and manufacturing. In such systems, minimizing the of rare and extreme events emerges as an essential objective that risk complements the minimization of the traditional expected value of risk, along with the objectives attached to cost and performance. These proceedings include forty-five papers that were presented at the Conference. A variety of techniques have been proposed for solving multiple criteria decision-making problems. The emphasis and style of the different techniques largely reflect the fields of expertise of their developers.

Author : Tomas Gal,Theodor Stewart,Thomas Hanne
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781461550259

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Multicriteria Decision Making by Tomas Gal,Theodor Stewart,Thomas Hanne Pdf

At a practical level, mathematical programming under multiple objectives has emerged as a powerful tool to assist in the process of searching for decisions which best satisfy a multitude of conflicting objectives, and there are a number of distinct methodologies for multicriteria decision-making problems that exist. These methodologies can be categorized in a variety of ways, such as form of model (e.g. linear, non-linear, stochastic), characteristics of the decision space (e.g. finite or infinite), or solution process (e.g. prior specification of preferences or interactive). Scientists from a variety of disciplines (mathematics, economics and psychology) have contributed to the development of the field of Multicriteria Decision Making (MCDM) (or Multicriteria Decision Analysis (MCDA), Multiattribute Decision Making (MADM), Multiobjective Decision Making (MODM), etc.) over the past 30 years, helping to establish MCDM as an important part of management science. MCDM has become a central component of studies in management science, economics and industrial engineering in many universities worldwide. Multicriteria Decision Making: Advances in MCDM Models, Algorithms, Theory and Applications aims to bring together `state-of-the-art' reviews and the most recent advances by leading experts on the fundamental theories, methodologies and applications of MCDM. This is aimed at graduate students and researchers in mathematics, economics, management and engineering, as well as at practicing management scientists who wish to better understand the principles of this new and fast developing field.