The topic of the book has emerged as a key research area following the evolution of environmental management toward the use of decision aid methods, and the increased use of Multicriteria Decision Aid in complex problems. In fact is now realised that decision in the field of assessment and...

The success of metaheuristics on hard single-objective optimization problems is well recognized today. Many real-life problems require, however, taking into account several conflicting points of view corresponding to multiple objectives. The use of metaheuristic optimization techniques for...