The point of departure in the present book is that the decision makers, involved in the evaluation of alternatives under conflicting criteria, express their preferential judgement by estimating ratios of subjective values or differences of the corresponding logarithms, the so-called grades. Three MCDA methods are studied in detail: the Simple Multi-Attribute Rating Technique SMART, as well as the Additive and the Multiplicative AHP.. "The book presents methods for decision support and their applications in the fields of university administration, health care, environmental assessment, budget allocation, and strategic energy planning and will be of value to practitioners, students and researchers in these and related fields.
Author(s): Freerk A. Lootsma
Series: Applied Optimization
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 292
front-matter......Page 1
1Introduction......Page 12
2Smart, Direct Rating......Page 26
3The AHP, Pairwise Comparisons......Page 64
4Scale Sensitivity and Rank Preservation......Page 104
5The Alternatives in Perspective......Page 129
6Group Decision Making......Page 149
7Resource Allocation......Page 171
8Scenario Analysis......Page 204
9Conflict Analysis and Negotiations......Page 220
10Multi-Objective Linear Programming......Page 237
11MCDA in the Hands of Its Masters......Page 266
12Prospects of MCDA......Page 278
back-matter......Page 287
