Discusses the advantage of multiple-criteria decision aid over other operational research
and management science approaches. Factors that affect real-world decision problems;
Disciplines that are to be explored in order to build solid theoretical foundations for
multidimensional preferences; Examples of multicriteria problems.

The following manifesto has been prepared by five prominent workers in the field of MCDA.
We are currently preparing a special issue on the issues that they raise (see Call for Papers
on p. 128). We invite you to contribute to the debate in that issue, either in the form of a
paper or a letter to the Editor.