This work has highlighted the importance, from a decision-making point of view, of identifying KPIs relationships. Then, it has presented two main groups of techniques that could be applied: Statistical techniques and multi-criteria decision aid techniques (MCDA). The application of one technique or another will be decided regarding the level of accuracy sought when identifying KPIs relationshi...

DEXi is an educational Multi Criteria Decision Aid (MCDA) computer program aimed at interactive development of qualitative multi-criteria and hierarchical decision models and the evaluation of options. XMCDA is an emerging data standard which enables the representation of Multi Criteria Decision Aid data elements in XML according to a clearly defined grammar. In this paper we investigate the me...

Models in Multicriteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) can be analyzed by means of an importance index and an interaction index for every group of criteria. We consider first discrete models in MCDA, without further restriction, which amounts to considering multichoice games, that is, cooperative games with several levels of participation. We propose and axiomatize an interaction index for multichoic...

Bayesian Belief Nets (BBNs) have proven to be an extremely powerful technique for reasoning under uncertainty. We have used them in a range of real applications concerned with predicting properties of critical systems. In most of these applications we are interested in a single attribute of the system such as safety or reliability. Although such BBNs provide important support for decision makin...

Stochastic Multicriteria Acceptability Analysis (SMAA) comprises a family of multiple criteria decision aiding (MCDA) methods for problems including incomplete, imprecise, and uncertain information. Methods of the family allow solving MCDA problems of various types. Even though the methods have been applied in the past in various real-life decision-making situations, the structure of a unified ...

This paper presents an application of the integration between Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) to aid spatial decisions. We present a hypothetical case study to illustrate the GIS–MCDA integration: the selection of the best municipal district of Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil, in relation to the quality of urban life. The best municipal district i...

Over the past decades the complexity of financial decisions has increased rapidly, thus highlighting the importance of developing and implementing sophisticated and efficient quantitative analysis techniques for supporting and aiding financial decision making. Multicriteria decision aid (MCDA), an advanced branch of operations research, provides financial decision makers and analysts with a wid...

Results 21 MCDA twins, 1 MCMA twin, 2 MCTA, and 9 DCTA triplets cases chose to receive reduction of one of the monochorionic twins. The MCDA group include 6 TTTS patients (4 cases of stage III and 2 cases of stage IV), 2 cases of TRAP, 10 fetal malformation and 4 cases of sIUGR. The median gestational age at procedure was 27+1(14+3 to 27+2). All surgery succeeded with one puncture. Four cases a...

BACKGROUND Proper assessment of the harms caused by the misuse of drugs can inform policy makers in health, policing, and social care. We aimed to apply multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) modelling to a range of drug harms in the UK. METHODS Members of the Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs, including two invited specialists, met in a 1-day interactive workshop to score 20 drugs on...

The implementation of Sustainable Development (SD) within an Organization is a difficult task. This is due to the fact that it is difficult to deal with conflicting and incommensurable aspects such as environmental, economic and social dimensions. In this paper we have used a Multi-Criteria Decision Aid (MCDA) methodology to cope with these difficulties. MCDA methodology offers the opportunity ...