Formal decision and evaluation models are so widespread that almost no one can pretend not to have used or suffered the consequences of one of them. This book is a guide aimed at helping the analyst to choose a model and use it consistently. A sound analysis of techniques is proposed and the presentation can be extended to most decision and evaluation models as a "decision aiding methodology".

In the sciences of operations research and decision theory, the study of multicriteria decision-aid has seen considerable development in the last ten years. The author provides a concise and rigorous presentation of the concepts and procedures of this method. Includes discussions of outranking methods, interactive methods, multiple attribute utility theory, and the theories of social choice, voting procedures, fuzzy sets and decision in context of uncertainty.

Product Description: The following scheme summarizes the different families introduced in this chapter and the connections between them. Family of interval orders f Row-homogeneous Column-homogeneous Family of family of interval semi orders family of interval orders orders Homogeneous family of i nterva 1 orders Homogeneous family of semi orders Family of weak orders 85 5...read more