"Multi-Criteria Decision Making: An Operations Research Approach"



by E. Triantaphyllou, B. Shu, S. Nieto Sanchez, and T. Ray

Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, (J.G. Webster, Ed.), John Wiley & Sons, New York, NY, Vol. 15, pp. 175-186, (1998).


Abstract:
The core of operations research is the development of approaches for optimal decision making. A prominent class of such problems is multi-criteria decision making (MCDM). The typical MCDM problem deals with the evaluation of a set of alternatives in terms of a set of decision criteria. This paper provides a comprehensive survey of some methods for eliciting data for MCDM problems and also for processing such data.

Keywords:
Decision making, optimization, pairwise comparisons, sensitivity analysis, operations research.


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