European countries’ vulnerability to COVID-19: multicriteria decision-making techniques

Spatial Multicriteria Decision Making

DEFINITION Multicriteria analysis is generally defined as “a decision-aid and a mathematical tool allowing the comparison of different alternatives or scenarios according to many criteria, often conflicting, in order to guide the decision maker towards a judicious choice” [12]. The set of decision alternatives considered in a given problem is often denoted by A and called the set of potential a...

Contributions to Dynamic Multicriteria Decision Making Models

In this work we start by presenting a possible architecture for MultiCriteria Dynamic Decision Making (MCDDM) problems. Then we focus on contributions for the rating process because it involves two important aspects of any dynamic spatial-temporal decision problem: how to deal with uncertainty in dynamically changing input data and how consider different criteria importance, depending on criter...

Multicriteria Optimization and Decision Making

Interval-Based Multicriteria Decision Making

The aim of this paper is to show how non-additive measures and intervals can be combined in order to provide a simple and accurate approach to multi-criteria decision making problems. We construct an interval-based Choquet integral in order to derive preferences over a set of multidimensional alternatives. Preferences are no longer real number comparisons, but interval comparisons, which is not...

An Analysis of the COVID-19 Contagion Growth in European Countries

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected many people around the globe. Europe, as one of the most seriously affected continents, has been struggling with the novel coronavirus for several months. Obviously, outbreak response management plays a critical role in the impact of the disease. Therefore, in this paper, Malmquist Productivity Index is used to evaluate the performance of the most severely aff...