Product Description: Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) is the study of methods and procedures by which concerns about multiple conflicting criteria can be formally incorporated into the management planning process. A key area of research in OR/MS, MCDM is now being applied in many new areas, including GIS systems, AI, and group decision making...read more

Product Description: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization, EMO 2009, held in Nantes, France in April 2009. The 39 revised full papers presented together with 5 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions...read more

The book provides an introduction to multicriteria optimization. It covers theoretical topics such as existence of optimal solutions as well as methodological issues. A classification of multicriteria optimization problems is developed and used as a guideline throughout the book. First, fundamental solution concepts are defined and their properties and relations discussed. Then a variety of methods to find optimal solutions is described. Chapters on multicriteria linear optimization, uncommon solution concepts, and combinatorial problems conclude the book. The text contains material which cannot be found in other textbooks on the subject, because several chapters are based on new research results. It is suitable for a mathematically oriented course on multicriteria optimization. The material can be covered in the order in which it is presented, but it is also possible to select topics from various chapters. The exercises at the end of each chapter provide possibilities to practice as well as some outlooks to more general settings, when appropriate.

Product Description: Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis: State of the Art Surveys provides survey articles and references of the seminal or state-of-the-art research on MCDA. The material covered ranges from the foundations of MCDA, over various MCDA methodologies (outranking methods, multiattribute utility and value theories, non-classical approaches) to multiobjective mathematical programming, MCDA applications, and software...read more