The role of weights and scales in the application of multiobjective decision making. (English) Zbl 0537.90054

Gershon, Mark

Eur. J. Oper. Res. 15, 244-250 (1984).

This role is clearly crucial. The main questions at stake here are: 1) How different techniques may yield different results when applied to the same problem, apparently under the same assumptions? 2) How different techniques use the weights (in such a way that the same weights may lead to different results)? Several methods are compared for a water resources example, namely compromise programming, cooperative game theory, multiattribute utility theory, ELECTRE.

Reviewer: V.Cohen

MSC:

90B50	Management decision making, including multiple objectives
62C12	Empirical decision procedures; empirical Bayes procedures
91B06	Decision theory
91B16	Utility theory
91A12	Cooperative games
62C25	Compound decision problems in statistical decision theory
90C90	Applications of mathematical programming

Keywords:

compromise programming; cooperative game theory; multiattribute utility theory; ELECTRE

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