Advances in Multicriteria Analysis

✍ Scribed by Ph. Vincke (auth.), Panos M. Pardalos, Yannis Siskos, Constantin Zopounidis (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 262
• Series: Nonconvex Optimization and Its Applications 5
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
A Short Note on a Methodology for Choosing a Decision-Aid Method....Pages 3-7
A Note on the ‘Min in Favor’ Choice Procedure for Fuzzy Preference Relations....Pages 9-16
Eliciting Information Concerning the Relative Importance of Criteria....Pages 17-43
Front Matter....Pages 45-45
Unstructured Problems and Development of Prescriptive Decision Making Methods....Pages 47-80
Multicriteria Analysis in Problem Solving and Structural Complexity....Pages 81-90
Front Matter....Pages 91-91
General Overview of the Macbeth Approach....Pages 93-100
Building Additive Utilities in the Presence of Non-Monotonic Preferences....Pages 101-114
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
The Ideal-Degradation Procedure: Searching for Vector Equilibria....Pages 117-127
The Light Beam Search — Outranking Based Interactive Procedure for Multiple-Objective Mathematical Programming....Pages 129-146
Aspiration Level Approach to Interactive Multi-Objective Programming and Its Applications....Pages 147-174
When is a Stackelberg Equilibrium Pareto Optimum?....Pages 175-181
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
Preference Disaggregation Analysis in Agricultural Product Consumer Behaviour....Pages 185-202
An Application of the UTA Discriminant Model for the Evaluation of R & D Projects....Pages 203-211
Searching for a Financial Plan: A MOLP Multiple Reference Point Approach....Pages 213-231
Scheduling Surgeries for Patients Requiring Post-Operative Intensive Care: A Multiple Objective Integer Programming Approach....Pages 233-247
Back Matter....Pages 249-250

✦ Subjects

Operation Research/Decision Theory; Optimization; Finance/Investment/Banking