We point out the striking similarity between decision under uncertainty and multicriteria decision making problems, two areas which have been developed in an almost completely independent way until now. This pertains both to additive and non-additive (including qualitative) approaches existing for the two decision paradigms. This leads to emphasize the remarkable formal equivalence between post...

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with the complexity and amount of information in a wide variety of comparative performance reports in poultry production, making a decision is difficult. this problem is overcomed only when all data can be put into a common unit. for this purpose, five different decision making analysis approaches including  maximin, equally likely, weighted average, ordered weighted averages and technique for ...

In this paper it is outlined the methodology of the model MIREM (Multicriteria Industrial and Regional Economic Model) as the empirical framework for the implementation of an industrial policy in the CEECs countries aspiring to enter the European Union. Its epistemological foundations are taken from M. Porter Theory of Competitive Advantage and B. Balassa Theory of Economic Integration and focu...

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COVID-19 has triggered an unprecedented health crisis, crippling economic activity around the world. The aim of this paper is to analyse European countries' vulnerability associated consequences. analysis will focus on three areas that a priori are expected be most severely affected by pandemic – health, society and work examining possible relationship with countries’ wealth. multicriteria deci...