This work presents mathematical models and optimization methods for computer-aided design of mechanical transmission systems. The problem of decision making in transmission design is formulated as a multicriteria optimization problem. To solve it, we propose an iterative man-machine procedure. The procedure is based on multilevel decomposition scheme and involves methods of quadratic, dynamic a...

The environmental impact assessment (EIA) is a real problem of multicriteria decision making (MCDM) where information, as much quantitative as qualitative, coexists. The traditional methods of MCDM developed for the EIA discriminates in favor of quantitative information at the expense of qualitative information, because we are unable to integrate this latter information inside their procedure. ...

In the framework of multicriteria decision making based on Choquet integrals, we present a maximum entropy like method enabling to determine, if it exists, the least specific capacity compatible with the initial preferences of the decision maker.