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Author:   Jean-Charles Pomerol ,  Sergio Barba-Romero
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2000
Volume:   25
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.629kg
ISBN:  

9781461370086

ISBN 10:   1461370086
Pages:   395
Publication Date:   04 October 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1 What is multicriterion decision making?.- 1.1 Choice in the presence of multiple criteria.- 1.2 Historical background.- 1.3 The role of multicriterion analysis in organizations.- 1.4 An example to introduce some basic notions.- 1.5 Continuous multicriterion decision-making.- 1.6 How to use the book.- 2 Basic principles and tools.- 2.1 The discrete multicriterion decision (DMD) paradigm.- 2.2 The decision maker’s preferences and order relations.- 2.3 Preorders and utility functions.- 2.4 Ordinal and cardinal utility functions and evaluation of alternatives.- 2.5 Semi-criteria and pseudo-criteria.- 2.6 Models and aims of multicriterion decision making.- 2.7 Evaluation of alternatives and normalization.- 3 Analysis of dominance and satisfaction.- 3.1 Product preorders and dominance.- 3.2 Cones and preorders.- 3.3 Pre-analysis of dominance.- 3.4 Pre-analysis of satisfaction.- 3.5 Methods of discrete multicriterion decision.- 4 Weighting methods and associated problems.- 4.1 Weights and weighted sums.- 4.2 Geometrical interpretation.- 4.3 Determining weights.- 4.4 The entropy method.- 4.5 Direct evaluation methods.- 4.6 Eigenvalue methods.- 4.7 Methods of comparison of alternatives.- 4.8 Other problems.- 5 Ordinal multicriterion methods.- 5.1 Introduction.- 5.2 Borda’s method.- 5.3 The Condorcet method.- 5.4 Social choice and Arrow’s theorem.- 5.5 The method of Bowman and Colantoni.- 5.6 Lexicographic methods.- 6 Additive utility functions and associated methods.- 6.1 Introduction.- 6.2 The problem of comparing utilities.- 6.3 Definition and cardinality of additive utility functions.- 6.4 Difference additivity models.- 6.5 The existence of additively separable utility functions.- 6.6 Constructing additive utilities.- 6.7 The UTA method.- 7 Outranking methods.- 7.1Introduction.- 7.2 Outranking relations.- 7.3 The Electre method.- 7.4 The Promethee method.- 7.5 Other methods.- 8 Other multicriterion decision methods.- 8.1 Introduction.- 8.2. Alternative comparison methods.- 8.3. Methods involving distance from an ideal alternative.- 8.4 Permutation methods.- 8.5 Miscellaneous methods.- 9 Computers, Artificial Intelligence, Interactivity and Multicriterion Decision.- 9.1 The complexity of calculations.- 9.2 Artificial intelligence (AI) and multicriterion decision.- 9.3 Interactivity.- 9.4 Interactive multicriterion methods.- 9.5 Incorporation of multicriterion methods in DSS.- 9.6 Conclusion.- 10 Software for discrete multicriterion decision.- 10.1 Introduction.- 10.2 Logical Decisions.- 10.3 Promcalc.- 10.4 Expert Choice.- 10.5 Qualiflex.- 10.6 Brief review of DMD software.- 11 Multicriterion decision in practice.- 11.1 The role of multicriterion decision in descriptive models of human decision.- 11.2 People and timing in multicriterion decision.- 11.3 On modeling.- 11.4 From aggregation to choice.- 11.5 Reactions of decision makers to multicriterion decision.- 11.6 Applications.- 12 Multicriterion methods: features and comparisons.- 12.1 Introduction.- 12.2 A theoretical framework for analyzing the desirable properties of choice functions.- 12.3 Empirical comparison of practical properties.- 12.4 Comparison of multicriterion aggregation procedures: the various factors to be considered.- 12.5 The specialist’s point of view: choice of a method in terms of information available and terms of reference.- 12.6 Choice of method: the user’s point of view.- 12.7 Conclusion.- References.- Author Inde.

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