Group Decision Making under Multiple Criteria : Methods and Applications

I. Introduction -- II. Social Choice Theory -- 1. Voting -- 2. Social Choice Function -- 3. Social Welfare Function -- III. Experts Judgment and/or Group Participation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Brainstorming -- 3. Brainwriting -- 4. The Nominal Group Technique (NGT) -- 5. Synectics -- 6. Surveys -- 7. Delphi Method -- 8. Conferences -- 9. Successive Proportional Additive Numeration or Social Participatory Allocative Network (SPAN) -- 10. Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) -- 11. Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (Dematel) -- 12. Cognitive Map -- 13. Kane’s Simulation (KSIM) -- 14. Implementing and Controlling a Project -- 15. Group Decision Making Under Multiple Criteria for Evaluation/Selection of Alternatives -- 16. A Systems Approach to Expert Judgments and/or Group Participation Analysis -- IV. Game Theory -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Some Basic Concepts -- 3. The Normal form Payoff Function -- 4. The Characteristic Function Form -- V. Concluding Remarks -- VI. References.