Multi-criteria decision

J.H. de Boer, Chemometrical Aspects of Quality in Pharmaceutical Technology. The application of robustness criteria and multi criteria decision making in... 

J.H. de Boer, Age K. Smilde and Durk A. Doombos, Introduction of multi-criteria decision making in optimization procedures for pharmaceutical formulations, Acta Pharmaceutica Technologica, 34 (1988) 140-143. 

A.K. Smilde, A. Knevelman, P.M.J. Coenegracht, Introduction of multi-criteria decision making in the optimization procedures for high-performance liquid chromatographic separations. Journal of Chromatography 369 (1986) 1. 

Brugha CM (1998) Structuring and Weighting Criteria in Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM). In Stewart TJ, van den Honert RC (eds) Trends in Multicriteria Decision Making. Springer, Berlin et al., pp 229-242... 

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Lee S-B, Luss H (1987) Multifacility-Type Capacity Expansion Planning Algorithms and Complexities. Operations Research 35 249-253 Leskinen P (2000) Measurement Scales and Scale Independence in the Analytic Hierarchy Process. Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis 9 163-174... 

Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium 1 388-393 Tong H-M, Walter CK (1980) An Empirical Study of Plant Location Decisions of Foreign Manufacturing Investors in the United States. Columbia Journal of World Business 15 66-73 Tragantalerngsak S, Holt J, Ronnqvist M (2000) An exact method for the two-echelon, single-source, capacitated facility location problem. European Journal of Operational Research 123 473-489 Triantaphyllou E (2001) Two New Cases of Rank Reversals when the AHP and Some of its Additive Variants are Used that do not Occur with the Multiplicative AHP. Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis 10 11-25... 

Keywords Heat-exchanger network Synthesis Flexibility Superstructure MILP Multi-criteria decision-making Fuzzy optimization... 

Use of multi-criteria decision-making procedure requests a new method for evaluation of the potential options of energy systems. Its purpose is mainly oriented to the evaluation of options in order to investigate the effect of individual criteria on the priority list for decision-making process. In the evaluation procedure it is possible to investigate effects of mutual relation of the criteria on the finale priority list. This evaluation procedure could be imagined as the useful tool for the analysis of the individual criteria. 

J. Wieling, J. Schepers, J. Hempenius, C. K. Mensink, and J. H. G. Jonkman, Optimization of chromatographic selectivity of twelve sulphonamides in reversed-phase HPLC using mixture designs and multi-criteria decision making, J. Chromatogr., 545 101 (1991). 

Dodgson J, Spackman M, Pearman A. 2000. Multi-criteria decision analysis a manual. London Department of the Environment, Transport, and the Regions. Available from http //www.communities.gov.uk/pub/252/MulticriteriaanalysismanualPDF1380Kb idll42252.pdf.. 

The final step in the decision making process should be the selection of risk management options. Once the different options are evaluated, a decision has to be made as to which options are selected and which rejected. This decision is obvious if one or more options turn out to be dominant (relatively better on all criteria). Otherwise, trade-offs have to be made that need legitimisation (Graham and Wiener 1995). A legitimate decision can be made on the basis of formal balancing tools (such as cost-benefit or multi-criteria-decision analysis), by the respective decision makers (given his decision is informed by a holistic view of the problem) or in conjunction with participatory procedures. 

Formal decision analysis methods, in particular Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis MCDA, see [960[ for an overview) such as Utility Analysis and Analytic Hierarchy Process AHP), seek to formally assess the importance of several criteria and the grade to which the criteria are respected by different alternatives, to detect inconsistencies in the assessments, and finally to recommend the best fitting alternative. Several applications in the domain of chemical engineering are reported in the literature, including the design of urban wastewater treatment plants [672] and separation systems for hydrocarbons [621]. 

Vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) manufacture Maximization of VCM production and minimization of environmental burden, environmental impact and operating cost simultaneously. e-constraint method A design methodology consisting of 4 steps was proposed and applied to VCM plant The steps are (1) life cycle analysis of the process, (2) formulation of the design problem, (3) MOO, and (4) multi-criteria decision-making to find best compromise solutions. Khan et al. (2001)... 

Larichev, O. (1992). Cognitive validity in design of decision aiding techniques, Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis 1, 3, pp. 127-138. 

Roy, B. and Mousseau, V. (1996). A theoretical framework for analysing the notion of relative importance of criteria, Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis 5, 2, pp. 145-159. 

Scarelli, A., and Narnia, C. N. (2002). A multicriteria assignment problem. Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis, 11, 65-74. 

The very idea behind partial order is to compare objects and by doing this to learn from them. Hence, it is obvious that partial order may also be useful in decision support. Indeed partial orders play implicitly an important role in many established multi-criteria decision aid models. Being aware that there is important literature about this topic, the motto of the chapters presented here is to let speak the partial order alone - as far as possible. 

Smilde, A.K. Bruins, C.H.P. Doornbos, D.A. Vink, J. Optimization of the reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatographic separation of synthetic estrogenic and progestogenic steroids using the multi-criteria decision making method. J.Chromatogr, 1987, 410, 1-12... 

Seven parameters of physicochemical properties, such as acid number, color, density, refractive index, moisture and volatility, saponification value and PV, were measured for quality and adnlter-ated soybean, as well as quality and rancid rapeseed oils. The chemometric methods were then applied for qualitative and quantitative discrimination and prediction of the oils by methods snch as exploratory principal component analysis (PCA), partial least squares (PLS), radial basis function-artificial neural networks (RBF-ANN), and multi-criteria decision making methods (MCDM), PROMETHEE and GAIA.260... 

Kahraman C (2008) Multi-criteria decision making methods and fuzzy sets. In Kahraman C (ed) Fuzzy multi-criteria decision-making, vol 16. Springer, New York, pp 1-18... 

Fig. 9 Decision matrix for multi-criteria decision making...

Liang, G.S. and Wang, M.J., 1991. A fuzzy multi-criteria decision-making method for facility site selection. International Journal of Production Research, 29(11), 2313-2330. 

Key words information system, multi-criteria decision making, cross-selling,... 

Benbemou, R. and Warwick, K., 2007. year fuzzy multi-criteria decision approach for enhanced auto-tracking of seismic events, IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (ICSPC 2007), pp. 1331-1334. 

Beynon, M., Cosker, D. and Marshall, D., 2001. An expert system for multi-criteria decision making using Dempster Shafer theory. Expert Systems -with Applications 20(4), 357-367. 

Tong, R., 1982. Fuzzy-sets and multi-criteria decision-making. Human Systems Management 3,266-268. 

MCA8 software application was developed by our Department and Department of Computer Science mainly for the purpose of the support of multi-criteria decision making. The under mentioned MCA methods have been implemented to the MCA8 on the basis of the type of decision-making tasks solved in the field of electrical power engineering. 

This paper dealt with the MCA8 software application for support of multi-criteria decision-making not... 

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