The purpose of this paper is to present an elementary introduction to the concepts and methods used in decision-aid. After having defined the notions of action, consequence and criterion we show the interest of multicriteria analysis and outline the main methods in that field: aggregation into a unique criterion, aggregation into an outranking relation, interactive approach. We conclude by some...

Decision making is associated with ranking problems aimed to obtain a set of preference order of solutions. People can make mistakes choosing the best object for investments. Due to high cost of such mistakes, such a choice should be well founded. This paper presents multicriteria method for choosing the best object, called SNOD (Scale of Normalized and Ordered Differences). There are two stage...

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One of the environmental issues in urban planning is finding a suitable site for constructing infrastructures such as water and wastewater treatment plants. There are numerous factors to be considered for this purpose, which make decision-making a complex task. We used an integrated fuzzy logic and multicriteria decision model to select a suitable site for establishing wastewater treatment plan...

In the context of increasing demands for social and financial accountability of universities, the required implementation of transparent faculty evaluation systems constitutes a challenge and an opportunity models that cover the full range of academic activities and the models in use are typically based on ad hoc scoring systems that lack theoretical soundness. This article approaches faculty e...

BACKGROUND Proper assessment of the harms caused by the misuse of drugs can inform policy makers in health, policing, and social care. We aimed to apply multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) modelling to a range of drug harms in the UK. METHODS Members of the Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs, including two invited specialists, met in a 1-day interactive workshop to score 20 drugs on...

Over recent years, Portugal has been working towards their integration in the trans-European high-speed railway network. While in Spain several new high-speed lines are already under construction or beginning operation, in Portugal the necessary studies are still being carried out. One of these studies concerned the location of one of the high-speed railway stations to be built in the city of P...

In this paper, we propose some decision logic languages for rule representation in rough set-based multicriteria analysis. The semantic models of these logics are data tables, each of which is comprised of a finite set of objects described by a finite set of criteria/attributes. The domains of the criteria may have ordinal properties expressing preference scales, while the domains of the attrib...

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...

Over the last 10 years, multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) has become an essential subfield of research in GIScience (Malczewski 2006a), and might be considered to improve some domains in real world (e.g. business strategies and national planning). Some theories, such as OWA (Malczewski 2006b), AHP (Saaty 2008) or fuzzy quantifier (Malczewski 2006b), were introduced and applied in order to ...