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Multicriteria analysis: survey and new directions

1981; Elsevier BV; Volume: 8; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/0377-2217(81)90168-5

1872-6860

Bernard Roy, Philippe Vincke,

Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference

Before the advent of multicriteria analysis, decision problems often took the form of the optimization of an objective function or a utility function. This approach has the advantage of resulting in well-defined mathematical problems but is not always representative of reality: in fact the comparison of several possible decisions is rarely made according to a single point of view and the preferences on a point of view are in many cases only modelled with difficulty by a function. The aim of this paper is to survey the different directions in which multicriteria analysis has developed: multiattribute utility theory, outranking relations, interactive methods. The methodology recently proposed by B. Roy is also presented.