MCDM methods: Practical difficulties and future directions for improvement

This paper critically reviews practical difficulties inherent in some of the existing multi-criteria decision-making methods. The also emphasizes why a benchmark decision situation is essential assessing capabilities any method. capability terms accuracy modeling human process. Most methods consist two important steps. first step involves elicitation preferences from decision-maker on various criteria and alternatives problem. In second step, defined by are aggregated. overall score generated after aggregation used rank order calculation final selection. However, if prescriptions method do not resemble actual or real very same decision-maker, then failed either capturing true aggregating these as per expectations decision-maker. discusses latest theories provides three directions to improve descriptive aspects analysis.