Handbook of Multicriteria Analysis

1. Front Matter

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2. Issues in Decision Aiding

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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3. Issues in Decision Aiding

   1. To Better Respond to the Robustness Concern in Decision Aiding: Four Proposals Based on a Twofold Observation

      • Bernard Roy

      Pages 3-24

   2. Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis for Strategic Decision Making

      • Gilberto Montibeller, Alberto Franco

      Pages 25-48

4. Multiple Criteria Decision Aid Methodologies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 50-50

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5. Multiple Criteria Decision Aid Methodologies

   1. ELECTRE Methods: Main Features and Recent Developments

      • Jose Rui Figueira, Salvatore Greco, Bernard Roy, Roman Słowiński

      Pages 51-89

   2. The Analytic Hierarchy and Analytic Network Measurement Processes: The Measurement of Intangibles

      • Thomas L. Saaty, Mariya Sodenkamp

      Pages 91-166

   3. Preference Programming – Multicriteria Weighting Models under Incomplete Information

      • Ahti Salo, Raimo P. Hämäläinen

      Pages 167-187

   4. New Trends in Aggregation-Disaggregation Approaches

      • Yannis Siskos, Evangelos Grigoroudis

      Pages 189-214

   5. Disaggregation Analysis and Statistical Learning: An Integrated Framework for Multicriteria Decision Support

      • Michael Doumpos, Constantin Zopounidis

      Pages 215-240

6. Multiobjective Optimization

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 242-242

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   2. Multiobjective Optimization, Systems Design and De Novo Programming

      • Milan Zeleny

      Pages 243-262

   3. Interactive Multiple Objective Programming Methods

      • Pekka Korhonen, Jyrki Wallenius

      Pages 263-286

   4. On Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms

      • Dalila B. M. M. Fontes, António Gaspar-Cunha

      Pages 287-310

   5. Goal Programming: From Constrained Regression to Bounded Rationality Theories

      • Jacinto González-Pachón, Carlos Romero

      Pages 311-328

   6. Interactive Decomposition-Coordination Methods for Complex Decision Problems

      • Alexander Engau

      Pages 329-365

7. Applications

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 368-368

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   2. Applying the EPISSURE Approach for the Evaluation of Business Sponsorship Performance

      • Stéphane André, Bernard Roy

      Pages 369-404

   3. Optimal Capital Structure

      • Marc B. J. Schauten, Jaap Spronk

      Pages 405-423

   4. Applications of MCDA in Marketing and e-Commerce

      • Stelios Tsafarakis, Kleanthi Lakiotaki, Nikolaos Matsatsinis

      Pages 425-448

Multicriteria analysis is a rapidly growing aspect of operations research and management science, with numerous practical applications in a wide range of fields. This book presents all the recent advances in multicriteria analysis, including multicriteria optimization, goal programming, outranking methods, and disaggregation techniques. The latest developments on robustness analysis, preference elicitation, and decision making when faced with incomplete information, are also discussed, together with applications in business performance evaluation, finance, and marketing. Finally, the interactions of multicriteria analysis with other disciplines are also explored, including among others data mining, artificial intelligence, and evolutionary methods.

• Analysis
• algorithms
• evolutionary algorithm
• multi-criteria decision analysis
• multi-objective optimization
• operations research
• optimization

From the reviews:

“This Handbook is valuable because it includes a presentation of recent achievements, which can be particularly helpful to both novices and experts in applied fields who intend to apply multicriteria methods. … that a broad readership including among others researchers, graduate students, and practitioners who are interested in management science, operations research, and decision analysis, will find in that book a complete coverage of the recent advances in different aspects of MCDA and the state-of-art research in this field’ … .” (Antanas Zilinskas, Interfaces, Vol. 41 (4), July-August, 2011)

“The present book presents some of the recent advances in multicriteria analysis and robustness analysis and explores the links of multicriteria analysis with other disciplines. … The present book would benefit a large audience including among others researchers, graduate students, and practitioners who are interested in management science, operations research and decision analysis.” (C. S. Lalitha, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1207, 2011)

• Dept. Production Engineering, and Management, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece

  Constantin Zopounidis

• Dept. Industrial & Systems, Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA

  Panos M. Pardalos

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