Sustainability is a holistic and complex multi-dimensional concept encompassing economic,
social and environmental issues, and its assessment is a key step in the implementation of …

This chapter addresses two complementary themes in relation to problem structuring and
MCDA. The first and primary theme highlights the nature and importance of problem …

Despite the development of a large number of refined multicriterion decision aid (MCDA)
methods, none can be considered as thesuper method'appropriate to all decision making …

Multiple‐criteria decision analysis has evolved considerably since its birth during the 1960s.
As part of this evolution, several schools of thought have developed emphasizing different …

The paper presents the author's partial and personal historical reconstruction of how
decision theory is evolving to a decision aiding methodology. The presentation shows …

As its title implies, Advances in Multicriteria Analysis presents the most recent developments
in multicriteria analysis and in some of its principal areas of application, including marketing …

This paper seeks to offer an overview of the streams of thought in the field of multicriteria
decision analysis or aid (MCDA) presented and discussed in the sessions of the annual …

Work in the field of multiple criteria analysis has generally focused on evaluation
procedures, taking as its starting point a well‐defined problem with specified alternatives …

Abstract Classical Operations Research assumed objectivity. Operations researchers hardly
botheredto ask the decision maker about his or her preferences, assuming that a well …

The purpose of this paper is to illustrate, using a real case study, one of the points stressed
in the “Manifesto of the new Multi Criteria Decision Aid (MCDA) era”(Bouyssou et al., 1993) …