10 This article proposes a framework to handle multiattribute group decision making 11 problems with incomplete pairwise comparison preference over decision alternatives 12 where qualitative and quantitative attribute values are furnished as linguistic variables 13 and crisp numbers, respectively. Attribute assessments are then converted to interval14 valued intuitionistic fuzzy numbers (IVIFNs...

The application of systems analysis techniques in evaluating project alternatives having more than one objective in river basin planning for the sustainable development is of recent origin. This paper presents the planning under fuzzy environment including both qualitative and quantitative aspects for the sustainable development of a major peninsular river basin (Krishna River Basin) in souther...

In this chapter we survey several approaches to derive a recommendation from some preference models for multiple criteria decision aid. Depending on the specificities of the decision problem, the recommendation can be a selection of the best alternatives, a ranking of these alternatives or a sorting. We detail a sorting procedure for the assignment of alternatives to graded classes when the ava...

It is generally believed that the preference ranking method PROMETHEE has a quadratic time complexity. In this paper, however, we present an exact algorithm that computes PROMETHEE’s net flow scores in time O(qn log(n)), where q represents the number of criteria and n the number of alternatives. The method is based on first sorting the alternatives after which the unicriterion flow scores of al...

We present a new technique for adaptively choosing the sequence of molecular compounds to test in drug discovery. Beginning with a base compound, we consider the problem of searching for a chemical derivative of this molecule that best treats a given disease. The problem of choosing the molecules to test to maximize the expected quality of the best compound discovered may be formulated mathemat...

The problem of aggregating individual rankings to create an overall consensus ranking representative of the group is of longstanding interest in group decision making. The problem arises in situations where a group of k Decision Makers (DMs) are asked to rank order n alternatives. The question is how to combine the DMs’ rankings into one consensus ranking. Several different approaches have been...

The paper deals with the methodology of complex sensitivity analysis of solution given by one of the popular multiple-criteria decision-making methods, namely the Analytic Hierarchy Process. This methodology includes evaluation of sensitivity of hierarchy elements local ranking to changes in an expert pairwise comparison judgments and evaluation of sensitivity of global ranking of decision alte...

The usual Condorcet Criterion says that if an alternative is ranked ahead of all other alternatives by an absolute majority of voters, it should be declared the winner. The following partial extension of this criterion to other ranks is proposed: If an alternative is consistently ranked ahead of another alternative by an absolute majority of voters, it should be ahead in the final ranking. The ...

The paper concerns the pairwise comparison method used to rank a finite, usually small number of alternatives, in the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), which belongs to a certain class of multiple attribute decision making methods. Ranking of alternatives is calculated based on expert judgments expressing relative importance for each pair of alternatives. From mathematical point of view calcula...