Ebook: Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis in Regional Planning: Concepts, Methods and Applications
- Tags: Operations Research/Decision Theory
- Series: Theory and Decision Library 10
- Year: 1987
- Publisher: Springer Netherlands
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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This book is devoted to presenting theoretical fundamentals for the methods of multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) in the social sciences with particular intent to their applicability to real-world decision making. The main characteristics of the complex problems facing humans in the world today are multidimensional and have multiple objecti ves; they are large-scale, and have nonconimensura te and conflicting objectives, such as economic, environmental, societal, technical, and aesthetic ones. The authors intend to establish basic concepts for treating these complex problems and to present methodological discussions for MCDM with some applications to administrative, or regional, planning. MCDM is composed of two phases: analytical and judgmental. In this book, we intend to consolidate these two phases and to present integrated methodologies for manipulating them with particular interest in managerial decision making, which has not yet been properly treated in spite of its urgent necessi ty. Al though a number of books in MCDM fields have already been published in recent years, most of them have mainly trea ted one aspect of MCDM. Our work specifically intends to trea t the methodology in unified systems and to construct a conceptual structure with special regards to the intrinsic properties of MCDM and its "economic meanings" from the social scientific point of view.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Introduction to Multiple Criteria Decision Making....Pages 1-12
Approach to Multiple Criteria Optimization....Pages 13-58
Interactive Multiobjective Mathematical Programming....Pages 59-105
Interactive Fuzzy Multiobjective Programming....Pages 106-148
The Preference Structure of Decision Making....Pages 149-180
Multiattribute Utility Analysis....Pages 181-228
Value Conflicts in Multiple Agents Decision Making....Pages 229-276
Reconsideration of Preference Structure....Pages 277-312
Resource Allocation and Duality....Pages 313-349
Imputation of Dual Prices....Pages 350-390
Applications of the Nested Lagrangian Multiplier (NLM) Method....Pages 391-432
Interpretation of Duality in Game Theory....Pages 433-458
Propriety of Multiple Criteria Decision Making for Human Affairs: Social Implementation and Personal Behavior....Pages 459-499
Back Matter....Pages 501-535
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Introduction to Multiple Criteria Decision Making....Pages 1-12
Approach to Multiple Criteria Optimization....Pages 13-58
Interactive Multiobjective Mathematical Programming....Pages 59-105
Interactive Fuzzy Multiobjective Programming....Pages 106-148
The Preference Structure of Decision Making....Pages 149-180
Multiattribute Utility Analysis....Pages 181-228
Value Conflicts in Multiple Agents Decision Making....Pages 229-276
Reconsideration of Preference Structure....Pages 277-312
Resource Allocation and Duality....Pages 313-349
Imputation of Dual Prices....Pages 350-390
Applications of the Nested Lagrangian Multiplier (NLM) Method....Pages 391-432
Interpretation of Duality in Game Theory....Pages 433-458
Propriety of Multiple Criteria Decision Making for Human Affairs: Social Implementation and Personal Behavior....Pages 459-499
Back Matter....Pages 501-535
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