Multiple criteria decision analysis : state of the art surveys /: state of the art surveys. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Salvatore Greco, Matthias Ehrgott, José Rui Figueira, editors.
• Editors: Greco, Salvatore; Ehrgott, Matthias; Figueira, José
• Contents: List of Figures; List of Tables; Introduction ; 1 Ten Years of Success of Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis and Reasons for This New Edition; 2 Human Reflection About Decision; 3 Technical Reflection About Decision: MCDA Researchers Before MCDA; 4 Reasons for This Collection of State-of-the-Art Surveys; 5 A Guided Tour of the Book; 5.1 Part I: The History and Current State of MCDA; 5.2 Part II: Foundations of MCDA; 5.3 Part III: Outranking Methods; 5.4 Part IV: Multi-attribute Utility and Value Theories; 5.5 Part V: Non-classical MCDA Approaches. 5.6 Part VI: Multiobjective Optimization5.7 Part VII: Applications; 5.8 Part VIII: MCDM Software; References; Volume I; Part I The History and Current State of MCDA; 1 An Early History of Multiple Criteria Decision Making; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Early Developments; 1.2.1 Moral Algebra; 1.2.2 Some Early Voting Results; 1.2.3 Pareto-Optimality; 1.2.4 Indifference Curves and Edgeworth Box; 1.2.5 Set Theory, Number Theory; 1.3 Origins of Decision Analysis, Utility Theory; 1.3.1 Economics as a Modern Science; 1.3.2 Expected Subjective Utility; 1.3.3 Theory of Games; 1.3.4 Revealed Preferences. 1.3.5 Bounded Rationality1.3.6 Social Choice and Individual Values; 1.3.7 Theory of Value; 1.3.8 Games and Decisions; 1.3.9 Behavioral Decision Theory; 1.3.10 Utility Theory; 1.3.11 The `Outranking Methods'; 1.4 Origins of Multiple Objective Mathematical Programming; 1.4.1 Efficient Vectors; 1.4.2 Goal Programming; 1.4.3 Parametric Programming; 1.4.4 Automatic Control; 1.4.5 Restricted Bargaining; 1.5 Conclusion; 2 Paradigms and Challenges; 2.1 What Are the Expectations that Multicriteria Decision Aiding (MCDA) Responds To?; 2.1.1 What Is Reasonable to Expect from Decision Aiding (DA)? 2.1.2 Why Is DA More Often Multicriteria than Monocriterion?2.1.3 Can MCDA Be Always Totally Objective?; 2.2 Three Basic Concepts; 2.2.1 Alternative, and More Generally, Potential Action; 2.2.2 Criterion and Family of Criteria; 2.2.3 Problematic as a Way in Which DA May Be Envisaged; 2.3 How to Take into Account Imperfect Knowledge and Ill-Determination?; 2.4 An Operational Point of View; 2.4.1 About Multicriteria Aggregation Procedures; 2.4.2 Approach Based on a Synthesizing Criterion; 2.4.3 The Operational Approach Based on a Synthesizing Preference Relational System. 2.4.4 About Other Operational Approaches2.5 Conclusion; References; Part II Foundations of MCDA; 3 Preference Modelling; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Purpose; 3.3 Nature of Information; 3.4 Notation and Basic Definitions; 3.5 Languages; 3.5.1 Classic Logic; 3.5.2 Fuzzy Sets; 3.5.3 Four-Valued Logics; 3.6 Preference Structures ; 3.6.1 ""426830A P, I ""526930B Structures; 3.6.2 Extended Structures; 3.6.2.1 Preference Relations on n Ordered Points; 3.6.2.2 Several Preference Relations; 3.6.2.3 Incomparability; 3.6.3 Valued Structures; 3.7 Domains and Numerical Representations.
• Publisher Details: New York : Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Copyright Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (2 volumes), illustrations
• Subjects: 658.4/033; Business; Multiple criteria decision making; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Statistics; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industrial Management; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Management; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Management Science; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Organizational Behavior; Multiple criteria decision making; Business & Economics -- Operations Research; Business & Economics -- Econometrics; Operational research; Econometrics; Management science; Operations research; Econometrics; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781493930944; 1493930931; 9781493930937
• Related ISBNs: 149393094X; 9781493930937
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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