This collection of papers gives a broad overview of the state of the art in Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM), in both theory and practice. Topical sections are ranging from preference modelling and methodological developments to a number of applications of MCDM thinking. Special sections...

Multiple Criteria Decision Making and its Applications to Economic Problems ties Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM)/Multiple Objective Optimization (MO) and economics together. It describes how MCDM methods (goal programming) can be used in economics. The volume consists of two parts. Part...

In this paper we are considering an Organization with a central unit and several subunits. The central unit has to solve a coordination problem for the whole Organization, which can be stated as: How can the decisions concerning future acts needing scarce resources being at the central unit's...