This feature cluster of the European Journal of Operational Research is one of three special issues devoted to results from the Sixteenth International Conference on Multi-Criteria Decision Making held at Semmering, Austria, on February 18–22, 2002. The special issue of the Journal of MultiCriteria Decision Making edited by Matthias Ehrgott and Mikulas Luptacik will focus on application-oriente...

The selection of a strategy to seismically upgrade an existing building is a difficult problem. In fact, several different technologies are available to this aim nowadays. Furthermore, many generally conflicting options have to be considered to assess the performance of each alternative. Decision support systems like the socalled multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods may be useful in ma...

Sensitivity analysis (SA) is a prerequisite for model building since it determines the reliability of the model through assessment of uncertainties in the simulation results. With growing interest in extending GIS to support multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods, enhancing GIS-based MCDM with sensitivity analysis procedures is crucial. SA should be involved in GIS-MCDM model evaluation ...

In multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) problems, ratings are assigned to the alternatives on different criteria by the expert group. In this paper, we propose a thermodynamically consistent model for MCDM using the analogies for thermodynamical indicators energy, exergy and entropy. The most commonly used method for analysing MCDM problem is Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to ...

The paper illustrates the application of three Multiple-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) methods to the problem of the selection of a new hub airport for a hypothetical European Union (EU) airline assumed to operate within the EU liberalised air transport market. The three MCDM methods used are SAW (Simple Additive Weighting), TOPSIS (Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to the Ideal Sol...

a r t i c l e i n f o The classic multiple-criteria decision making (MCDM) model assumes that, when taking a decision, the decision maker has defined a fixed set of criteria and is presented with a clear picture of all available alternatives. The task then reduces to computing the score of each alternative, thus producing a ranking, and choosing the one that maximizes this value. However, most ...