Evaluation and decision models with multiple criteria. Stepping stones for the analyst.
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Evaluation and decision models with multiple criteria. Stepping stones for the analyst.
zbMATH Open document ID: 1140.90027
DOI: 10.1007/0-387-31099-1
author: Denis Bouyssou
author: Thierry Marchant
author: Marc Pirlot
author: Philippe Vincke
author: Alexis Tsoukias
publication date: 2006-04-06T00:00:00Z
review text: This book, spanning over eight chapters, investigates the techniques for decision making using multicriteria methods. The book begins with an introductory chapter describing the principles of decision making, highlighting the relevance of decision making using several real-life examples, and presenting the overall motivation for producing this book. In the second chapter, the principles of problem formulation and structuring are investigated. Both decision making and decision aiding processes and studied and their main characteristics are clearly presented. The third chapter then proceeds to the two main concepts on which any formal evaluation and decision aiding process is based upon: numbers and relations. Their key importance is demonstrated with clarity in this chapter using a series of real life examples and scenarios. The book then continues with chapters four and five, which look into aggregation, i.e., the way to combine the different dimensions of someone's points of view (inputs) into an output for the evaluation process. The importance -- and also sometimes the controversial nature -- of aggregation is presented throughout chapter four. Chapter five studies aggregation procedures and the different type of aggregation functions that can be used (including among others, the Borda and the Condorcet methods). The sixth chapter investigates multidimensional preference models. All the mathematical background necessary to understand the issues arising in higher dimensions is clearly presented by the authors. Several models are presented in this lengthy chapter, including models based on marginal traces, models for valued preferences and models based on marginal traces on differences. Chapter 7 finally looks into the issue of making elaborations on recommendations and follows naturally after the methodology presented in chapters 5 and 6. It is also a fairly large chapter, but the use of several examples throughout makes it easy to read. The book concludes with a …
reviewed by: Efstratios Rappos
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 90B50
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 90-01
zbMATH DE Number: 5018021
zbMATH Keywords: decision model
zbMATH Keywords: multicriteria
zbMATH Keywords: evaluation
zbMATH Keywords: decision aiding
zbMATH Keywords: decision making
describes a project that uses: J-MEANS
describes a project that uses: PREFDIS
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-31099-1
OpenAlex ID: W3170044912
published in: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science
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