Key Features:First book to cover an informal history of Multiple Criteria Decision MakingCovers decade-by-decade developments in MCDM, from early history until nowContains brief biographies and pictures of major contributors in the field.

This volume contains over twenty original contributions, written by leading authorities in their field, dealing with decision models for supporting individuals facing situations encompassing multiple criteria and related problems. The book presents interactive methods for solving multiple...

From Optimisation to Multi-Criteria Decision Aid: Three Main Operational Attitudes -- An Algorithm for Combined Quadratic and Multiobjective Programming -- Quasi-Kernels of Outranking Relations -- Existence and Duality in Multiple Objective Linear Programming -- On the Relationship of the...