This paper reviews the origin and operational definition of the optimum yield (0Y) concept and demonstrates how techniques of decision analysis can provide an analytical model for OY. The concept of OY was formalized as the guiding principle of fisheries management in the United States and Canada in 1976. The policies of both countries make it clear that a wide range of biological, economic, an...

The paper describes an application server evaluation and selection for software systems implementation using client-server technology. The multi layer application architecture has been illustrated and the definition of application server made. On the base of application server analysis assessment criteria were chosen and particularly described, and criteria were classified in 11 categories. An ...

This paper outlines an application of multiattribute utility theory to the selection of a technology for the disposition of surplus weapons-grade plutonium. The analysis presented evaluated thirteen alternatives, examined the sensitivity of the recommendations to the weights and assumptions, and quantified the potential benefit of the simultaneous deployment of several technologies. The results...

This paper presents rough netrosophic multiattribute decision making based on grey relational analysis. While the concept of neutrosophic sets is a powerful logic to deal with indeterminate and inconsistent data, the theory of rough neutrosophic sets is also a powerful mathematical tool to deal with incompleteness. The rating of all alternatives is expressed with the upper and lower approximati...

Decisions about management of invasive species are difficult for all the reasons typically addressed by multiattribute decision analysis: uncertain outcomes, multiple and conflicting objectives, and many interested parties with differing views on both facts and values. This article illustrates how the tools of multiattribute analysis can improve management of invasive species, with an emphasis ...

This paper deals with preference representation and decision-making problems in the context of multiattribute utility theory. We focus on the generalized additive decomposable utility model (GAI) which allows interactions between attributes while preserving some decomposability. We present procedures to deal with the problem of optimization (choice) and ranking of multiattribute items. We also ...

We propose a theoretical framework for understanding how everyday choice objects are represented and how decisions involving these objects are made. Our framework combines insights regarding object and concept representation in semantic memory research with multiattribute choice rules proposed by scholars of decision making. We also outline computational techniques for using our framework to qu...

Conflict and choice are closely related in that choice produces conflict and conflict is resolved by making a choice. Although conflict was invoked in psychological approaches to decision making early on (Lewin, 1931/1964), no generally accepted measure of conflict strength has been established (Tversky & Shafir, 1992). The present study introduces a model (multiattribute decision field theory)...