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AbstractThe following manifesto has been prepared by five prominent workers in the field of MCDA. We are currently preparing a special issue on the issues that they raise (see Call for Papers on p. 128). We invite you to contribute to the debate in that issue, either in the form of a paper or a letter to the Editor.

ISSN:1057-9214    

DOI:10.1002/mcda.4020020302

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractResearch indicates that selecting a strategy to best exploit a new technology is a complex decision‐making process. The task involves making a series of decisions with multiple alternatives, each to be evaluated by multiple criteria whose values have high levels of uncertainty. This paper presents a methodology for modelling a new technology decision using decision trees and an optimizing algorithm. A problem of a mining company considering the adoption of new technology is used to illustrate the decision‐making task and modelling methodology. A numerical solution to the case demonstrates the potential of the optimizing technique in strategy select

ISSN:1057-9214    

DOI:10.1002/mcda.4020020303

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractIn the analytic hierarchy process, it is often thought that rank reversals cannot occur in a single‐criterion problem. This paper demonstrates that if it is necessary to cluster items under a single criterion, such reversals are possible. The reversals occur prior to aggregating across clusters and are caused by a failure to make reference to the alternatives when performing criteria comparisons. Rank reversals, however, are only a symptom of the problem. The real problem is a failure to calibrate global weights to a common scale which spans different clusters. Even in the absence of reversals, aggregated weights from the AHP's relative mode of measurement can fail to maintain composite ratio relationship

ISSN:1057-9214    

DOI:10.1002/mcda.4020020304

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractA mathematical formulation for a dilemma (i.e. a situation in which a very difficult choice between two alternatives must be made) is given. Multiple‐objective programming is assumed as the model for a single decision maker. It is shown that, in principle, any dilemma is resolvable. Furthermore, there is always more than one way in which to resolve a dilemma. Illustrative examples from non‐convex optimization are presen

ISSN:1057-9214    

DOI:10.1002/mcda.4020020305

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThis paper studies the problem of aggregation of preferences, preserving the multicriteria nature of the individual decision process. The resulting group decision problem is in effect a twice multicriteria optimum problem. We give a structural theory for the efficient set of this optimum problem. Moreover, on the basis of this theory we study the relationships between optimality, consensus and evaluation. We confirm the pathological nature of aggregation of preferences, but in a new setting and with a different meaning.

ISSN:1057-9214    

DOI:10.1002/mcda.4020020306

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractPreferences are often represented in terms of a function, in the deterministic case as well as in the probabilistic case. In the present paper we develop a new numerical representation of preference structures for which the strict preference relation (P) is without circuit but not necessarily transitive. Moreover, we investigate the consequences of the representation for the usual preference structures. In particular, we propose new formulations for the numerical representation of the interval order structure.

ISSN:1057-9214    

DOI:10.1002/mcda.4020020307

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:1057-9214    

DOI:10.1002/mcda.4020020308

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:1057-9214    

DOI:10.1002/mcda.4020020301

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY