Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Sorting Methods (eBook)

Prof. Alessio Ishizaka is Head of the Information Systems, Supply Chain and Decision-making Department and Full Professor of Decision Analysis, at Neoma Business School, France. He was research lead and deputy director of the Centre of Operational Research and Logistics at the University of Portsmouth. He received his PhD from the University of Basel (Switzerland) and worked successively for the University of Exeter (UK), University of York (UK), and Audencia Grande Ecole de Management Nantes (France). He has been a visiting professor at several universities in Italy, France and Germany. His research is in the area of decision analysis, where he has published more than 90 papers. He is regularly involved in large European funded projects and he has been the chair, co-organiser, and guest speaker of several conferences on this topic. He has written a key textbook Multicriteria Decision Analysis: Methods and Software.

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Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) is a generic term for all methods that help people making decisions according to their preferences, in situations where there is more than one conflicting criterion. It is a branch of operational research dealing with finding optimal results in complex scenarios including various indicators, conflicting objectives and criteria. The approach of MCDM involves decision making concerning quantitative and qualitative factors. The importance and success of MCDM are due to the fact that they have successfully dealt with different types of problematics for supporting decision makers such as choice, ranking and sorting, description. Even though, each of the different problematics in MCDM is important, Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Sorting Methods will focus on sorting approaches across a wide range of interesting techniques and research disciplines. The applications which have been and can be solved by these techniques are more and more important in current real-world decision-making problems. Therefore, the book provides a clear overview of MCDM sorting methods and the different tools which can be used to solve real-world problems by revising such tools and characterizing them according to their performance and suitability for different types of problems. The book is aimed at a broad audience including computer scientists, engineers, geography and GIS experts, business and financial management experts, environment experts, and all those professional people interested in MCDM and its applications. The book may also be useful for teaching MCDM courses in fields such as industrial management, computer science, and applied mathematics, as new developments in multi-criteria decision making. Provides insights into the latest research trends in MCDM sorting methods and fuzzy-based approaches Focuses on the application of MCDM sorting methods to GIS based problems Presents engineers, computer scientists and researchers with effective and efficient solutions to real-world problems