Multiple Criteria Decision Making Kyoto 1975

✍ Scribed by Jacob Marschak (auth.), Dr. Milan Zeleny (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1976
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 367
• Series: Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems 123
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This collection of articles aspires to be a permanent record of ideas which are likely to become important determinants in the future of management sciences. These papers were initially presented at the first session on Multiple Criteria Decision Making QMCDM) organized under the auspices of The Institute of Management Sciences (TIMS). All works were prepared by leading spokesmen for three generations of OR/MS change agents. Special mention must be made of the dynamic role which Professor Martin K. Starr played in organizing the program of the TIMS XXII International Meeting. In May, 1973, Professor Starr, who was President of TIMS and Program Chairman of the Kyoto conference, requested me to chair the MCDM session. Throughout the long period of formative inter­ change, Dr. Starr demonstrated his full and continuing support of both the event and the MCDM field. On July 25, 1975, surrounded by the rocky gardens of the Kyoto International Conference Hall (KICH), located on the shore of Takaraga­ Ike, we engaged in a day-long discussion of MCDM. Our "talk together in Kyoto" was a professional experience of the highest intensity for participants, speakers and audience alike.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages N2-XXVII
Guided Soul-Searching for Multi-Criterion Decisions....Pages 1-16
Interpersonal Comparison of Utilities....Pages 17-43
Group Decision Analysis....Pages 45-74
Externalizing the Parameters of Quasirational Thought....Pages 75-96
Multivariate Selection of Students in a Racist Society: A Systematically Unfair Approach....Pages 97-110
A Multi-Objective Model for Planning Equal Employment Opportunities....Pages 111-134
Experiences in Multiobjective Management Processes....Pages 135-151
The Theory of the Displaced Ideal....Pages 153-206
The Surrogate Worth Trade-Off Method with Multiple Decision-Makers....Pages 207-233
An Interactive Multiple Objective Decision-Making Aid Using Nonlinear Goal Programming....Pages 235-253
Applications of Multiple Objectives to Water Resources Problems....Pages 255-270
On the Approximation of Solutions to Multiple Criteria Decision Making Problems....Pages 271-282
Why Multicriteria Decision Aid May Not Fit in with the Assessment of a Unique Criterion....Pages 283-286
Multiattribute Preference Functions of University Administrators....Pages 287-289
MCDM Bibliography — 1975....Pages 291-321
Multicriteria Simplex Method: A Fortran Routine....Pages 323-345
Back Matter....Pages 347-349

✦ Subjects

Economics/Management Science, general