Annual rehabilitation programme of water supply networks requires taking several points of view into consideration. Within the European project CARE-W (Computer Aided Rehabilitation of Water networks) a multicriteria tool was defined: Care-W_ARP, dedicated to the selection of the most efficient project for annual rehabilitation programmes. This selection is supported by the use of an outranking...

Background Mental retardation is a developmental disability that first appears at children under the age of 18. About 5% of the mentally retarded population is affected by severe mental retardation. Approximately 20% of the population with mental deficience presents moderate mental retardation and about 75% have mild mental retardation. A very important factor that cause mental retardation of c...

Trustworthy software evaluation is taken as the multi-criteria decision aiding process in this paper. The use of ELECTRE TRI method for evaluating software trustworthiness is presented. Software under evaluation is compared with some predefined norms and is assigned to one of trust levels. The entire evaluating process is described, including definition of problem situation and formulation, det...

The VIKOR method was developed to solve MCDM problems with conflicting and noncommensurable (different units) criteria, assuming that compromising is acceptable for conflict resolution, the decision maker wants a solution that is the closest to the ideal, and the alternatives are evaluated according to all established criteria. This method focuses on ranking and selecting from a set of alternat...

Data Centers (DCs) are complex organizational and technical infrastructures that assure the performance and reliability of modern information and communication systems. The high installation and operations costs of DCs and the stringent requirements regarding reliability and safety require a close attention to the location of this type of facility. This paper proposes a Multi-Criteria Decision ...

To implant sustainable development goals, land-use planners need holistic indicators. An accessibility index appears particularly important but its evaluation focuses still highly on the economic dimension. Geographical Information Systems and Multicriteria Analysis allow us to promote a holistic definition of accessibility. GIS is used to describe the territory in terms of the transport networ...

This paper presents an extension of the comprehensive (overall) concordance index of ELECTRE methods, which takes the interaction between criteria into account. In real-world decisionmaking situations, it is reasonable to consider the interaction between a small number of criterion pairs. Three types of interaction have been considered: mutual strengthening, mutual weakening, and antagonistic. ...

Multiattribute decision making involves tradeoffs among alternative performances over multiple attributes. The accuracy of performance measures are usually assumed to be accurate. Most multiattribute models also assume given values for the relative importance of weights for attributes. However, there is usually some uncertainty involved in both of these model inputs. Outranking multiattribute m...

The selection of students is a complex decision making process, in which multiple selection criteria often need to be considered and where subjectiveness and imprecision are usually present, resulting that fuzzy and imprecise data should be used. This paper formulates the student selection process as a multicriteria decision analysis problem, concretely as a ranking problem, by using the ELECTR...

In this chapter we survey several approaches to derive a recommendation from some preference models for multiple criteria decision aid. Depending on the specificities of the decision problem, the recommendation can be a selection of the best alternatives, a ranking of these alternatives or a sorting. We detail a sorting procedure for the assignment of alternatives to graded classes when the ava...