Multicriteria analysis is a rapidly growing field in operations research and management science, with numerous practical applications in a wide range of fields. This book presents all the recent advances in this field, including multicriteria optimization, multiattribute utility theory, outranking methods, disaggregation techniques. Recent developments on robustness/sensitivity analysis, efficiency measurement, decision making under uncertainty and stochastic modeling are also discussed. Special emphasis is also given to applications in several fields, such as environment, management, engineering and economics, together with the implementations in decision support systems. Finally, the interactions of multicriteria analysis with other disciplines are also analyzed, including among others fuzzy sets, rough sets, data mining, artificial intelligence and evolutionary methods.
Part I - Multiple Criteria Decision Aid Methodologies: Supporting Strategic Decision Making with MCA; Robustness and Meaningfulness in MCA: Concepts and Approaches; Multicriteria Performance Analysis New Trends in Aggregation-Disaggregation Philosophies; New Developments in ELECTRE Methods; Group Decision Making and Negotiations; Recent Advances in Multicriteria Classification: Methodologies and Applications; Part II - Mulitobjective Optimization: Multiobjective Optimization; On the Mathematical Foundations of Mulitobjective Optimization; Interactive Multiple Criteria Optimization Methods; Multiobjective Optimization via Parametric Programming: Models and Algorithms; Multiopbjective Optimization, Systems Design and De Novo Programming; (Tradeoff-based) Decomposition-coordination Methods for Interactive Decision Making; Part III - Fuzzy Sets and Artificial Intelligence in Multiple Criteria Decision Making: Fuzzy Set Methods in Multicriteria Decision Making; Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process; Decision Analysis and Artificial Intelligence; Part IV - Applications: Preference Programming for Decision and Portfolio Analysis; Multidimensional Portfolio Management; Heuristic Methods in Multicriteria Portfolio Optimization; Design and Implementation of an Evaluation Tool for Environmental Performance: The Case of the TOTAL Refineries; Applications of Multicriteria Analysis in Marketing and E-commerce.