Multiple criteria decision analysis state of the art surveys, (International series in operations research & management science, Vol. 78) POD

This book is the most comprehensive work available to survey the state of the art in MCDA to date. Its 25 chapters are organized in eight parts and are written by 52 international leading experts. Each of these parts covers one of the central streams of multiple criteria decision analysis literature. These literature streams are: MCDA today, Foundations of MCDA, Our Ranking Methods, Multiattribute Utility Theory, Non-Classical MCDA Approaches, Multiobjective Mathematical Programming, Applications, and MCDM Software. The handbook presents the most up-to-date discussions on well-established methodologies and theories in the field, while systematically surveying emerging fields in MCDA such as conjoint measurement, fuzzy preferences, fuzzy integrals, rough sets, etc. This volume is a valuable reference volume (more than 2000 references) for the field of decision analysis. It provides graduate students, researchers, and practitioners with a sweeping survey of MCDA theory, methodologies, and applications. It is a handbook that is particularly suitable for use in seminars in Decision Analysis, Decision Support, and Decision Theory.

Introduction.- Paradigms and Challenges.- Preference Modelling.- Conjoint Measurement Tools for MCDM.- ELECTRE Methods.- PROMETHEE Methods.- Other Outranking Approaches.- MAUT: Multiattribute Utility Theory.- UTA Methods.- The Analytic Hierarchy and Analytic Network Processes for the Measurement of Intangible Criteria and for Decision-Making.- On the Mathematical Foundation of MACBETH.- Dealing with Uncertainties in MCDA.- Choice, Ranking and Sorting in Fuzzy Multiple Criteria Decision Aid.- Decision Rule Approach.- Fuzzy Measures and Integrals in MCDA.- Verbal Decision Analysis.- Interactive Methods.- Multiobjective Programming.- Multiple Objective Linear Programming with Fuzzy Coefficients.- MCDM Location Problems.- Multicriteria Decision Aid/Analysis in Finance.- MCDA and Energy Planning.- Multicriteria Analysis in Telecommunication Network Planning and Design/Problems and Issues.- Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis and Sustainable Development.- Multiple Criteria Decision Support Software.- References.- Contributing Authors.- Index.

Roman Slowinski (Poznan University of Technology, Editor of EJOR): "The Editors are to be congratulated for an excellent work. They attracted the most representative authors and contributors for contemporary MDCA. I have never seen such a complete and up-to-date book on MCDA. It will be a basic reference for the next decade."