Research and Practice in Multiple Criteria Decision Making : Proceedings of the XIVth International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, June 8–12, 1998

The Even-Swap Method for Multiple Objective Decisions -- A Methodology for Risk Management of Compound Failure Modes -- Forming Win-Win Strategy — A New Way to Study Game Problems -- Relations among Several Efficiency Concepts in Stochastic Multiple Objective Programming -- Hard to Say It's Easy — Four Reasons Why Combinatorial Multiobjective Programmes Are Hard -- Multiattribute Utility Analysis in the IctNeo System -- Maximal Point Theorems in Product Spaces and Applications for Multicriteria Approximation Problems -- A Robustness Index of Binary Preferences -- Tangent and Normal Cones in Nonconvex Multiobjective Optimization -- Multiobjective Linear Production Programming Games -- Multiple Criteria Subset Selection Under Quantitative and Non-Quantitative Criteria -- Using Block Norms in Bicriteria Optimization -- Multiple Risk Assessment with Random Utility Models in Probabilistic Group Decision Making -- On a Behavioral Model of Analytic Hierarchy Process for Modeling the Legitimacy of Rank Reversal -- Resolution of Variational Inequality Problems by Multiobjective Programming -- An Outer Approximation Method for Optimization over the Efficient Set -- On Efficiency of Data Envelopment Analysis -- Rough Approximation of a Preference Relation by a Multi-Attribute Stochastic Dominance for a Reduced Number of Attributes -- An Evaluation of Multicriteria Decision-Making Methods in Integrated Assessment of Climate Policy -- A Revised Minimum Spanning Table Method for Optimal Expansion of Competence Sets -- Constructing and Implementing a DSS to Help Evaluate Perceived Risk of Accounts Receivable -- Improving Weighting Information in Interactive Decision Procedures: A Visual Guide -- A Multicriteria Framework for Risk Analysis -- Intelligent User Support in Multicriteria Decision Support -- Data Envelopment Analysis with Fuzzy Input-Output Data -- Target Mix Approach for Measuring Efficiency in Data Envelopment Analysis -- The TEAM Model for Evaluating Alternative Adaptation Strategies -- Fuzzy Multi-Criteria DSS: Their Applicability and Their Practical Value -- Problems of Measurement in Decision Analysis -- Multicriteria Decision Aid Techniques: Some Experimental Conclusions -- Cone Decomposition for the Solution of Efficient Extreme Points in Parallel -- Scheduling to Minimize Maximum Earliness and Number of Tardy Jobs Where Machine Idle Time is Allowed -- Using Compromise Programming in a Stock Market Pricing Model -- Redistribution of Funds for Teaching and Research among Universities -- Multicriteria Optimization Accounting for Uncertainty in Dynamic Problem of Power Generation Expansion Planning -- Time-Dependent Capital Budgeting with Multiple Criteria -- Sustainability Indicators for Multiple Criteria Decision Making in Water Resources: An Evaluation of Soil Tillage Practices Using Web-HIPRE -- Soft-OR and Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis for Group Decision Support: A Case Study in Fisheries Management -- Problem Structuring and Evaluation Integration: A Case Study in Transportation Planning -- Management of Surgical Waiting Lists in Public Hospitals -- On Designing Health Care Plans and Systems from the Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) Perspective -- Case Studies on the Application of Adaptive Risk Analysis to USDA's Resource Conservation Programs -- Fuzzy Multi-Objective Reconstruction Plan for Post-Earthquake Road-Network by Genetic Algorithm -- Fair Allocations Using Multicriteria Power Indices -- The College Selection Process from a Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis Perspective -- Index of Authors.