In the last 25 years, the fuzzy set theory has been applied in many disciplines such as operations research, management science, control theory, artificial intelligence/expert system, etc. In this volume, methods and applications of crisp, fuzzy and possibilistic multiple objective decision...

The presence of qualitative information in environmental policy analysis is a rule, rather than an exception. This book is mainly concerned with the issue of fuzzy information in multicriteria evaluation. New analytical tools able to tackle economy-environment interactions and operationalize...

I. Introduction -- II. Social Choice Theory -- 1. Voting -- 2. Social Choice Function -- 3. Social Welfare Function -- III. Experts Judgment and/or Group Participation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Brainstorming -- 3. Brainwriting -- 4. The Nominal Group Technique (NGT) -- 5. Synectics -- 6. Surveys...

(VOL. 1) -- I. Interactive Decision Support Systems -- Towards Interactive and Intelligent Decision Support Systems -- Corporate Systematic Thinking and its Implementation; in Retrospect of my Way -- On Effective Goal Setting -- Systems Approach to Multiple Criteria Decision Making; Metaoptimum...

Most real-life problems involve making decisions to optimally achieve a number of criteria while satisfying some hard or soft constraints. In this book several methods for solving such problems are presented by the leading experts in the area. The book also contains a number of very interesting...

Planning, operating, and policy making in the electric utility and natural gas sectors involves important trade-offs among economic, social, and environmental criteria. These trade-offs figure prominently in ongoing debates about how to meet growing energy demands and how to restructure the...

Multiple criteria decision-making research has developed rapidly and has become a main area of research for dealing with complex decision problems which require the consideration of multiple objectives or criteria. Over the past twenty years, numerous multiple criterion decision methods have...

Within the field of multiple criteria decision making, this volume covers the latest advances in multiple objective and goal programming as presented at the 2nd International Conference on Multi-Objective Programming and Goal Programming, Torremolinos, Spain, May 16 - 18, 1996. The book is an...

“Characterization of Pareto and Lexicographic Optimal Solutions” -- “Duality Based Characterizations of Efficient Facets” -- “Sensitivity Analysis in Multiple Objective Linear Programming: Changes in the Objective Function Matrix” -- “Exhaustible Resources and a Leontief Model of...

“Optimal Consumption and Portfolio Strategies in a Continuous-Time Model with Summary-Dependent Preferences” -- “Application of MCDM to Geological Exploration Planning” -- “Analysis of Nuclear Reactor Siting Policy Using Multiobjective Programming” -- “An Introduction to the...