A special issue on multi-criteria decision aiding

Multi-Stage Technique 'Paks' for Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding

This paper describes a new multi-stage technique PAKS (the abbreviation of Russian words: Consequent Aggregation of Classi ̄ed Situations) for sorting multi-attribute objects by a group. Based on decision maker preferences, this technique provides a hierarchical aggregation of a large number of initial attributes into a smaller number of criteria, thus reducing the dimension of the attribute spa...

Robustness in operational research and decision aiding: A multi-faceted issue

In the introduction, I explain the meaning I give to the qualifier term "robust" and justify my preference for the expression robustness concern rather than robustness analysis, which I feel is likely to be interpreted too narrowly. In Section 2, I discuss this concern in more details and I try to clarify the numerous raisons d’être of this concern. As a means of examining the multiple facets o...

Special issue on "Multicriteria Decision Support Systems"

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Evaluation of recommender systems: A multi-criteria decision making approach

The evaluation and selection of recommender systems is a difficult decision making process. This difficulty is partially due to the large diversity of published evaluation criteria in addition to lack of standardized methods of evaluation. As such, a systematic methodology is needed that explicitly considers multiple, possibly conflicting metrics and assists decision makers to evaluate and find...

Argumentation of the results of a multi-criteria evaluation model in individual and group decision aiding