Trends in Multicriteria Decision Making: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making, Cape Town, South Africa, January 1997: Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, cartea 465

Plenary Addresses.- Habitual Domains: Stealth Software for Effective Decision Making.- Bringing MCDM to the Forefront of Management Practice.- Preference Modeling.- Discrete Decision Problems, Multiple Criteria Optimization Classes and Lexicographic Max-Ordering.- Exploitation of a Rough Approximation of the Outranking Relation in Multicriteria Choice and Ranking.- An Algorithm for Solving Intransitivities without Repeating Trials.- The Approach to Multicriteria Decision Making Based on Pattern Recognition Algorithms.- Decision Analysis under Partial Information.- Methodologies of MCDA.- Interval Judgements in the Analytic Hierarchy Process: A Statistical Perspective.- The Stability of AHP Rankings in the Presence of Stochastic Paired Comparisons.- Convergence of Interactive Procedures of Multiobjective Optimization and Decision Support.- Fuzzy Parameters Multiobjective Linear Programming Problem: Solution Analysis.- The Static Approach to Quadratic Dynamic Goal Programming.- Stochastic Simulation in Risk Analysis of Energy Trade.- Negotiation and Group Decision Support.- Modeling Negotiations in Group Decision Support Systems.- Modelling Multi-Issue Negotiation.- Influence in Group Decision Making.- Monotonicity of Power Indices.- Fairness and Equity via Concepts of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis.- Systems Thinking and Philosophical Issues.- Structuring and Weighting Criteria in Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM).- The Analytic Hierarchy Process and Systems Thinking.- The Analytic Hierarchy Process and Systems Thinking: A Response to Petkov & Mihova-Petkova.- Interpretative Structural Modelling: Decision Making and the Method of Science.- A New Conflict-Based Redundancy Measure.- MCDA in Environmental and Natural Resource Management.- Comparing Contingent Valuation, Conjoint Analysis and Decision Panels: An Application to the Valuation of Reduced Damages from Air Pollution in Norway.- The use of MCDM to evaluate trade-offs between spatial objectives.- Interactive Decision Maps, with an Example Illustrating Ocean Waste Management Decisions.- Second-Generation Interactive Multi-Criteria Decision Making in Reservoir Management.- Carbon Sequestration and Timber Production: A Bi-Criteria Optimisation Problem.- General Applications of MCDA.- Integrated MCDA: A Simulation Case Study.- Viewing a Plant Layout Problem as a Multiobjective Case to Enhance Manufacturing Flexibility.- Judgmental Modelling as a Benchmarking Tool: A Case Study in the Chemical Industry.- Spatial conflicts in transport policies: structuring the analysis for large infrastructure projects.- Congestion Modeling and Multi-Criteria Smoothing Heuristics.- A Real-World MCDA Application in Cellular Telephony Systems.- Interactive MCDM Support System in the Internet.- Using AHP for Text Book Selection.

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