This paper introduces a new web-based decision support tool called Smart-Swaps to support multicriteria decision analysis. The decision maker’s preferences are elicited with the even swaps method, which is an elimination process based on value trade-offs. The software provides a platform for carrying out the elimination process and implements a preference programming model to give suggestions t...

The paper proposes a two-phase methodology to support groups in multicriteria classification problems. The first phase, which relies on dominance-based rough set approach, takes as input a set of assignment examples, and generates as output a set of collective decision rules representing a generalized description of the preference information of the decision makers. The second phase then applie...

In this paper, we deal with a multicriteria competitive Markov decision process. In the decision process there are two decision makers with a competitive behaviour, so they are usually called players. Their rewards are coupled because depend on the actions chosen by both players in each state of the process. We propose as solution of this game the set of Pareto-optimal security strategies for a...

The real-time online decision support system RODOS provides support throughout all phases of a nuclear or radiological emergency in Europe. The multicriteria decision support tool Web-HIPRE has been integrated into RODOS for a transparent evaluation of long-term measures, taking into account the preferences of a decision making team. However, a decision making process in practice is subject to ...

Faced with international competition, industrial production increasingly requires implementation conditions which, in some cases, lead to seek new techniques for workshop control. This is the case when it is asked to establish Just in Time management in a Job Shop having the characteristics of working with small series. A new approach for the organization of the ‘control’ function in such a con...

The evaluation of the performance of mutual funds (MFs) has been a very interesting research topic not only for researchers, but also for managers of financial, banking and investment institutions. In this paper, an integrated methodological framework for the evaluation of MF performance is proposed. The proposed methodology is based on the combination of discrete and continuous multicriteria d...

Practitioners of cost-utility analysis know that their models omit several important factors that often affect real-world decisions about health care options. Furthermore, cost-utility analyses typically reflect only single perspectives (e.g., individual, business, and societal), further limiting the value for those with different perspectives (patients, providers, payers, producers, and planne...

The paper presents a new decision method and a decision support system (DSS) for solving multicriteria classification problems: how to allocate alternatives having evaluations in the terms of several criteria into ordered decision classes. In contrast to previous statements of this problem, a relatively small subset of alternatives is presented for classification. The efficiency of the method i...

The considered models describe multicriteria decision making when the information provided from different criteria is given as fuzzy relations. These models differ according to the kind of the criteria weights and the aggregation procedures to fuse the fuzzy relations. The properties of aggregated fuzzy relation required to decide some multicriteria problem is discussed.

The paper analyses the application of multicriteria problem solving methods to design in the light of KLD0, a Knowledge Level theory of design. The pros and cons of three usual multicriteria decision rules applied to the resolution of incompleteness, inconsistency, imprecision, and ambiguity is discussed with the aid of a simple example.