Download or read book BI LEVEL MULTI LEVEL MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION MAKING AND TOPSIS APPROACHTHEORY APPLICATIONS AND SOFTWARE A LITERATURE REVIEW 2005 2015 written by Tarek H. M. Abou-El-Enien and published by Infinite Study. This book was released on with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper presents a literature review on the theory, applications and software of Bi-level, Multi –Level Multiple Criteria Decision Making and TOPSIS (Technique for Order Preference by Similarity Ideal Solution) Approach.
Download or read book Multi Level Decision Making written by Guangquan Zhang and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-02-07 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph presents new developments in multi-level decision-making theory, technique and method in both modeling and solution issues. It especially presents how a decision support system can support managers in reaching a solution to a multi-level decision problem in practice. This monograph combines decision theories, methods, algorithms and applications effectively. It discusses in detail the models and solution algorithms of each issue of bi-level and tri-level decision-making, such as multi-leaders, multi-followers, multi-objectives, rule-set-based, and fuzzy parameters. Potential readers include organizational managers and practicing professionals, who can use the methods and software provided to solve their real decision problems; PhD students and researchers in the areas of bi-level and multi-level decision-making and decision support systems; students at an advanced undergraduate, master’s level in information systems, business administration, or the application of computer science.
Download or read book Multiple Criteria Decision Making in Application Layer Networks written by Frank Schneider and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diploma Thesis from the year 2008 in the subject Computer Science - Commercial Information Technology, grade: 1,3, University of Bayreuth (Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik (BWL VII)), language: English, abstract: This work is concerned with the conduct of Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) by intelligent software agents trading digital commodities in Application Layer Networks (ALN) such as grids or clouds. These agents consider trustworthiness in their course of negotiation and select offers with respect to product price and seller reputation. To automate the selection process, we seek an appropriate MCDM method that provides clear advice for an agent prior to negotiating. We compare eleven well-known MCDM methods and choose the TOPSIS approach of Hwang and Yoon since it produces comprehensible and plausible results with a justifiable amount of effort. We modify the method and present a draft named xTOPSIS that promises intertemporal performance analysis for further automatation. The resulting tool is finally tested and evaluated in the context of a scenario similar to the eRep - Social Knowledge for e-Governance project.
Download or read book Multiple Criteria Decision Aid written by Jason Papathanasiou and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-19 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multiple criteria decision aid (MCDA) methods are illustrated in this book through theoretical and computational techniques utilizing Python. Existing methods are presented in detail with a step by step learning approach. Theoretical background is given for TOPSIS, VIKOR, PROMETHEE, SIR, AHP, goal programming, and their variations. Comprehensive numerical examples are also discussed for each method in conjunction with easy to follow Python code. Extensions to multiple criteria decision making algorithms such as fuzzy number theory and group decision making are introduced and implemented through Python as well. Readers will learn how to implement and use each method based on the problem, the available data, the stakeholders involved, and the various requirements needed. Focusing on the practical aspects of the multiple criteria decision making methodologies, this book is designed for researchers, practitioners and advanced graduate students in the applied mathematics, information systems, operations research and business administration disciplines, as well as other engineers and scientists oriented in interdisciplinary research. Readers will greatly benefit from this book by learning and applying various MCDM/A methods. (Adiel Teixeira de Almeida, CDSID-Center for Decision System and Information Development, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil) Promoting the development and application of multicriteria decision aid is essential to ensure more ethical and sustainable decisions. This book is a great contribution to this objective. It is a perfect blend of theory and practice, providing potential users and researchers with the theoretical bases of some of the best-known methods as well as with the computing tools needed to practice, to compare and to put these methods to use. (Jean-Pierre Brans, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium) This book is intended for researchers, practitioners and students alike in decision support who wish to familiarize themselves quickly and efficiently with multicriteria decision aiding algorithms. The proposed approach is original, as it presents a selection of methods from the theory to the practical implementation in Python, including a detailed example. This will certainly facilitate the learning of these techniques, and contribute to their effective dissemination in applications. (Patrick Meyer, IMT Atlantique, Lab-STICC, Univ. Bretagne Loire, Brest, France)
Download or read book An Innovative Grey Approach for Group Multi Criteria Decision Analysis Based on the Median of Ratings by Using Python written by Dragiša Stanujkic and published by Infinite Study. This book was released on 2021-06-19 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some decision-making problems, i.e., multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) problems, require taking into account the attitudes of a large number of decision-makers and/or respondents. Therefore, an approach to the transformation of crisp ratings, collected from respondents, in grey interval numbers form based on the median of collected scores, i.e., ratings, is considered in this article. In this way, the simplicity of collecting respondents’ attitudes using crisp values, i.e., by applying some form of Likert scale, is combined with the advantages that can be achieved by using grey interval numbers. In this way, a grey extension of MCDA methods is obtained. The application of the proposed approach was considered in the example of evaluating the websites of tourism organizations by using several MCDA methods. Additionally, an analysis of the application of the proposed approach in the case of a large number of respondents, done in Python, is presented. The advantages of the proposed method, as well as its possible limitations, are summarized.
Download or read book Multiple Criteria Decision Making Kyoto 1975 written by M. Zeleny and published by Springer. This book was released on 1976-04 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guided soul-searching for multi-criterion decisions; Interpersonal comparison of utilities; Group decision analysis; Externalizing the parameters of quasirational thought; Multivariate selection of students in a racist society: a systematically unfair approach; A multi-objective model for planning equal employment opportunities; Experiences in multiobjective management processes; The theory of the displaced ideal; The surrogate worth trade-off method with multiple decision makers; An interactive multiple objective decision making aid using nonlinear goal programming; Applications of multiple objectives to water resources; On the approximation of solutions to multiple criteria decision making problems; Why multicriteria decision aid may not fit in with theassessment of a unique criterion; Multiattribute preference functions of university administrators; Multicriteria simplex method: a fortran routine.
Download or read book Evaluation and Decision Models with Multiple Criteria written by Raymond Bisdorff and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book showcases a large variety of multiple criteria decision applications (MCDAs), presenting them in a coherent framework provided by the methodology chapters and the comments accompanying each case study. The chapters describing MCDAs invite the reader to experiment with MCDA methods and perhaps develop new variants using data from these case studies or other cases they encounter, equipping them with a broader perception of real-world problems and how to overcome them with the help of MCDAs.
Download or read book Multiple Criteria Decision Making and its Applications to Economic Problems written by Enrique Ballestero and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multiple Criteria Decision Making and its Applications to Economic Problems ties Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM)/Multiple Objective Optimization (MO) and economics together. It describes how MCDM methods (goal programming) can be used in economics. The volume consists of two parts. Part One of the book introduces the MCDM approaches. This first part, comprising Chapters 1-5, is basically an overview of MCDM methods that can most likely be used to address a wide range of economic problems. Readers looking for an in-depth discussion of multi-criteria analysis can grasp and become acquainted with the initial MCDM tools, language and definitions. Part Two, which comprises Chapters 6-8, focuses on the theoretical core of the book. Thus in Chapter 6 an economic meaning is given to several key concepts on MCDM, such as ideal point, distance function, etc. It illustrates how Compromise Programming (CP) can support the standard premise of utility optimisation in economics as well as how it is capable of approximating the standard utility optimum when the decision-makers' preferences are incompletely specified. Chapter 7 deals entirely with production analysis. The main characteristic throughout the Chapter refers to a standard joint production scenario, analysed from the point of view of MCDM schemes. Chapter 8 focuses on the utility specification problem in the n-arguments space within a risk aversion context. A link between Arrows' risk aversion coefficient and CP utility permits this task. The book is intended for postgraduate students and researchers in economics with an OR/MS orientation or in OR/MS with an economic orientation. In short, it attempts to fruitfully link economics and MCDM.
Download or read book Random Like Bi level Decision Making written by Jiuping Xu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the various multi-level formulations of mathematical models in decision making processes, this book focuses on the bi-level model. Being the most frequently used, the bi-level model addresses conflicts which exist in multi-level decision making processes. From the perspective of bi-level structure and uncertainty, this book takes real-life problems as the background, focuses on the so-called random-like uncertainty, and develops the general framework of random-like bi-level decision making problems. The random-like uncertainty considered in this book includes random phenomenon, random-overlapped random (Ra-Ra) phenomenon and fuzzy-overlapped random (Ra-Fu) phenomenon. Basic theory, models, algorithms and practical applications for different types of random-like bi-level decision making problems are also presented in this book.
Download or read book Multi Criteria Decision Analysis via Ratio and Difference Judgement written by Freerk A. Lootsma and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-08-23 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The point of departure in the present book is that the decision makers, involved in the evaluation of alternatives under conflicting criteria, express their preferential judgement by estimating ratios of subjective values or differences of the corresponding logarithms, the so-called grades. Three MCDA methods are studied in detail: the Simple Multi-Attribute Rating Technique SMART, as well as the Additive and the Multiplicative AHP, both pairwise-comparison methods which do not suffer from the well-known shortcomings of the original Analytic Hierarchy Process. Context-related preference modelling on the basis of psycho-physical research in visual perception and motor skills is extensively discussed in the introductory chapters. Thereafter many extensions of the ideas are presented via case studies in university administration, health care, environmental assessment, budget allocation, and energy planning at the national and the European level. The issues under consideration are: group decision making with inhomogeneous power distributions, the search for a compromise solution, resource allocation and fair distributions, scenario analysis in long-term planning, conflict analysis via the pairwise comparison of concessions, and multi-objective optimization. The final chapters are devoted to the fortunes of MCDA in the hands of its designers. The research started in the late seventies, when I got involved in three different problems: the nomination procedures in a university, the evaluation of alternative energy-research proposals, and the evaluation of non-linear programming software.
Download or read book Multiple Criteria Decision Making Methods with Multi polar Fuzzy Information written by Muhammad Akram and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024-01-04 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an extension of fuzzy set theory allowing for multi-polar information, discussing its impact on the theoretical and practical development of multi-criteria decision making. It reports on set of hybrid models developed by the authors, and show how they can be adapted, case by case, to the lack of certainty under a variety of criteria. Among them, hybrid models combining m-polar fuzzy sets with rough, soft and 2-tuple linguistic sets, and m-polar hesitant fuzzy sets and hesitant m-polar fuzzy are presented, together with some significant applications. In turn, outranking decision-making techniques such as m-polar fuzzy ELECTRE I, II, III and IV methods, as well as m-polar fuzzy PROMETHEE I and II methods, are developed. The efficiency of these decision-making procedures, as well as other possible extensions studied by the authors, is shown in some real-world applications. Overall, this book offers a guide on methodologies to deal with the multi-polarity and fuzziness of the real-world problems, simultaneously. By including algorithms and computer programming codes, it provides a practice-oriented reference guide to both researchers and professionals working at the interface between computational intelligence and decision making.
Download or read book Multi Criteria Analysis and Regional Decision Making written by Peter Nijkamp and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1977-07-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Advanced Decision Making Methods and Applications in System Safety and Reliability Problems written by He Li and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-07-09 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reviews and presents several approaches to advanced decision-making models for safety and risk assessment. Each introduced model provides case studies indicating a high level of efficiency, robustness, and applicability, which allow readers to utilize them in their understudy risk-based assessment applications. The book begins by introducing a novel dynamic DEMATEL for improving safety management systems. It then progresses logically, dedicating a chapter to each approach, including advanced FMEA with probabilistic linguistic preference relations, Bayesian Network approach and interval type-2 fuzzy set, advanced TOPSIS with spherical fuzzy set, and advanced BWM with neutrosophic fuzzy set and evidence theory. This book will be of interest to professionals and researchers working in the field of system safety and reliability and postgraduate and undergraduate students studying applications of decision-making tools and expert systems.
Download or read book A Novel TOPSIS MABAC Method for Multi attribute Decision Making with Interval Neutrosophic Set written by Xiangxiang Cui and published by Infinite Study. This book was released on with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interval neutrosophic Set is a useful tool to describe the indeterminate, inconsistent, and incomplete information. This paper presents the application of the new TOPSIS-MABAC model with interval neutrosophic number in multi-attribute decision-making problem. In this model, the combined weight of attributes is obtained based on TOPSIS method while the best alternatives by MABAC method. Firstly, some definitions of INS are given in this paper. Secondly, the objective attribute weights are determined by TOPSIS method, and then a combined attribute weight is proposed. Finally an extended MABAC method is developed to rank the alternatives in multi-attribute decision-making problem and an illustrative examples are given to demonstrate the practicality and effectiveness of this new method.
Download or read book TOPSIS Approach for Multi Attribute Group Decision Making in Refined Neutrosophic Environment written by SURAPATI PRAMANIK and published by Infinite Study. This book was released on with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper presents TOPSIS approach for multi attribute decision making in refined neutrosophic environment. The weights of each decision makers are considered as a single valued neutrosophic numbers.
Download or read book Technical Briefing written by Mansooreh Mollaghasemi and published by Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers(IEEE). This book was released on 1997 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents more than a dozen different methods for solving multiple criteria decision problems. Each method is briefly described and illustrated and provides at least one application from the literature. This briefing will provide you with some ideas of how the methods work and illustrate the usability of these methods in real decision problems. The first four chapters show you how the multiple criteria methods differ by the type of problem they are designed to solve, the timing of decision maker information, the type of information required from the decision maker, and the availability of supporting software. The last chapter provides further discussions and comparisons that guide you in making the appropriate choice and in the use of various multiple criteria methods.
Download or read book Multi objective Group Decision Making Methods Software And Applications With Fuzzy Set Techniques With Cd rom written by Guang-quan Zhang and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2007-05-10 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proposes a set of models to describe fuzzy multi-objective decision making (MODM), fuzzy multi-criteria decision making (MCDM), fuzzy group decision making (GDM) and fuzzy multi-objective group decision-making problems, respectively. It also gives a set of related methods (including algorithms) to solve these problems. One distinguishing feature of this book is that it provides two decision support systems software for readers to apply these proposed methods. A set of real-world applications and some new directions in this area are then described to further instruct readers how to use these methods and software in their practice./a
