In the classical theory of social choice, a theory developed by game-theorists and theoretical economists, we consider a set of agents (voters) and a set of alternatives. Each agent ranks the alternatives, and the major aim is to find a good way to aggregate the individual preferences into a social preference. The major tool offered in this theory is the axiomatic approach: study properties (te...

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the development and implementation of non-animal alternative tools in education and training are often the result of an evaluation process where the replacement of harmful animal use with humane, innovative methods reflects a range of pedagogical, ethical, environmental and economic considerations. InterNICHe helps realise its vision of a fully humane education by developing, promoting and impl...

The TODIM is a valuable technique for solving classical MCDM problems in case of considering the decision maker’s psychological behavior. One main goal of this chapter is to introduce the measured functions-based hesitant fuzzy TODIM technique to deal with the behavioral MCDM problem under hesitant fuzzy environments. The main advantages of this technique are that (1) it can handle the MCDM pro...

We present a new method, called UTA, for multiple criteria ranking of alternatives from set A using a set of additive value functions which result from an ordinal regression. The preference information provided by the decision maker is a set of pairwise comparisons on a subset of alternatives A A, called reference alternatives. The preference model built via ordinal regression is the set of all...

PROMETHEE refers to a collection of methods of ranking in the field of multi-criteria decision making. These methods are characterized by conceptual simplicity and practical applicability. However, the nature of phenomena involving decision-making in real world leads us to use fuzzy method of preference ranking. The most common criticism on mathematical ranking procedures is that they tend to d...

The sensitivity analysis for multi-attribute decision making (MADM) problems is important for two reasons: First, the decision matrix as the source of the results of a decision problem is inaccurate because it sorts the alternatives in each criterion inaccurately. Second, the decision maker may change his opinions in a time period because of changes in the importance of the criteria and in the ...

The paper addresses combinatorial approach to design of modular wireless sensor as composition of the sensor element from its component alternatives and aggregation of the obtained solutions into a resultant aggregated solution. A hierarchical model is used for the wireless sensor element. The solving process consists of three stages: (i) multicriteria ranking of design alternatives for system ...