Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis in Regional Planning

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Introduction to Multiple Criteria Decision Making

   • Fumiko Seo, Masatoshi Sakawa

   Pages 1-12

3. Approach to Multiple Criteria Optimization

   • Fumiko Seo, Masatoshi Sakawa

   Pages 13-58

4. Interactive Multiobjective Mathematical Programming

   • Fumiko Seo, Masatoshi Sakawa

   Pages 59-105

5. Interactive Fuzzy Multiobjective Programming

   • Fumiko Seo, Masatoshi Sakawa

   Pages 106-148

6. The Preference Structure of Decision Making

   • Fumiko Seo, Masatoshi Sakawa

   Pages 149-180

7. Multiattribute Utility Analysis

   • Fumiko Seo, Masatoshi Sakawa

   Pages 181-228

8. Value Conflicts in Multiple Agents Decision Making

   • Fumiko Seo, Masatoshi Sakawa

   Pages 229-276

9. Reconsideration of Preference Structure

   • Fumiko Seo, Masatoshi Sakawa

   Pages 277-312

10. Resource Allocation and Duality

    • Fumiko Seo, Masatoshi Sakawa

    Pages 313-349

11. Imputation of Dual Prices

    • Fumiko Seo, Masatoshi Sakawa

    Pages 350-390

12. Applications of the Nested Lagrangian Multiplier (NLM) Method

    • Fumiko Seo, Masatoshi Sakawa

    Pages 391-432

13. Interpretation of Duality in Game Theory

    • Fumiko Seo, Masatoshi Sakawa

    Pages 433-458

14. Propriety of Multiple Criteria Decision Making for Human Affairs: Social Implementation and Personal Behavior

    • Fumiko Seo, Masatoshi Sakawa

    Pages 459-499

15. Back Matter

    Pages 501-535

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This book is devoted to presenting theoretical fundamentals for the methods of multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) in the social sciences with particular intent to their applicability to real-world decision making. The main characteristics of the complex problems facing humans in the world today are multidimensional and have multiple objecti ves; they are large-scale, and have nonconimensura te and conflicting objectives, such as economic, environmental, societal, technical, and aesthetic ones. The authors intend to establish basic concepts for treating these complex problems and to present methodological discussions for MCDM with some applications to administrative, or regional, planning. MCDM is composed of two phases: analytical and judgmental. In this book, we intend to consolidate these two phases and to present integrated methodologies for manipulating them with particular interest in managerial decision making, which has not yet been properly treated in spite of its urgent necessi ty. Al though a number of books in MCDM fields have already been published in recent years, most of them have mainly trea ted one aspect of MCDM. Our work specifically intends to trea t the methodology in unified systems and to construct a conceptual structure with special regards to the intrinsic properties of MCDM and its "economic meanings" from the social scientific point of view.

• calculus
• game theory
• linear optimization
• nonlinear optimization
• optimization

• Kyoto Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University, Japan

  Fumiko Seo

• Department of Information Engineering, Iwate University, Japan

  Masatoshi Sakawa

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