Multiple Objective Decision Making — Methods and Applications A State-of-the-Art Survey

Multiple Objective Decision Making — Methods and Applications A State-of-the-Art Survey / by C.-L. Hwang, A.S.M. Masud.

Decision making is the process of selecting a possible course of action from all the available alternatives. In almost all such problems the multiplicity of criteria for judging the alternatives is pervasive. That is, for many such problems, the decision maker (OM) wants to attain more than one obje...

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Main Authors: Hwang, C.-L (Author), Masud, A.S.M (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1979.
Edition:1st ed. 1979.
Series:Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, 164
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Operations research.
Decision making.
Economic theory.
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Table of Contents:
  • I Introduction
  • II Basic Concepts and Terminology
  • III Methods for Multiple Objective Decision Making
  • 1. Methods for No Articulation of Preference Information Given
  • 2. Methods for a Priori Articulation of Preference Information Given
  • 3. Methods for Progressive Articulation of Preference Information Given (Interactive Methods)
  • 4. Methods for ‘A Posteriori’ Articulation of Preference Information Given
  • IV Applications
  • 1. Academic Planning
  • 2. Econometrics and Development Planning
  • 3. Financial Planning
  • 4. Health Care Planning
  • 5. Land Use Planning for Community Development
  • 6. Manpower Planning
  • 7. Media Planning
  • 8. Production Planning
  • 9. Public Administration
  • 10. Systems Reliability and Maintenance Policy
  • 11. Transportation Planning and Traffic Management
  • 12. Water Resources Management
  • V Concluding Remarks
  • VI Bibliography
  • Books, Monographs, and Conference Proceedings
  • Journal Articles, Technical Reports, and Theses.

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