This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Eighth International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM). MCDM has been an active research area for over 20 years and the previous conferences clearly showed a tremendous growth of interest. A variety of successful...

“Produce or Purchase—A Multiple Goal Linear Programming Model” -- “Random Sampling Approach to MCDM” -- “Explaining Utility Theory Paradoxes by Decision Regret” -- “Stability, Equality, Balance, and Multivariate Risk” -- “Efficient Solutions for Point-Objective Discrete...

Problems with multiple objectives and criteria are generally known as multiple criteria optimization or multiple criteria decision-making (MCDM) problems. So far, these types of problems have typically been modelled and solved by means of linear programming. However, many real-life phenomena are...

The volume contains 43 (out of 185) papers that were presented at the 15th International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making held in Ankara, Turkey July 10-14, 2000. The conference was one of the regular conferences of the International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making,...

I. Introduction -- II. Basic Concepts and Foundations -- 1. Definitions -- 2. Models for MADM -- 3. Transformation of Attributes -- 4. Fuzzy Decision Rules -- 5. Methods for Assessing Weight -- III. Methods for Multiple Attribute Decision Making -- 1. Methods for No Preference Information Given...

1. Introduction -- 1.1 The Origin of the Multiobjective Problem and a Short Historical Review -- 1.2. Linear Multiobjective Programming -- 1.3. Comment on Notation -- Linear Multibojective Programming I -- 2. Basic Theory and Decomposition of the Parametric Space -- Linear Multiobjective...

This volume presents the most recent results in theory, methodology and applications of Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM). All facets of MCDM are included like fuzzy models, nonlinear convex problems, simulated annealing, integer programming models, goal programming and more. In the...

1. Guided Soul-Searching for Multi-Criterion Decisions -- 2. Interpersonal Comparison of Utilities -- 3. Group Decision Analysis -- 4. Externalizing the Parameters of Quasirational thought -- 5. Multivariate Selection of Students in a Racist Society: A Systematically Unfair Approach -- 6. A...

1. The Concept of Objectives -- 1.1. The Decision Situation under Consideration -- 1.2. The Concept of Objectives under Certainty -- 1.3. The Concept of Objectives under Uncertainty -- 2. Formal Statement of the Problem -- 2.1. Complete Systems of Objectives -- 2.2. Criteria Vectors -- 2.3. The...

At a practical level, mathematical programming under multiple objectives has emerged as a powerful tool to assist in the process of searching for decisions which best satisfy a multitude of conflicting objectives, and there are a number of distinct methodologies for multicriteria decision-making...