Research in Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) and its subfields (multi-attribute utility theory or Analysis, AHP, Goal Programming, MCDA, multi-objective mathematical programming, EMO) is very active. However, our general feeling that bright, young people do not focus their energies sufficiently on solving important problems despite many deserve attention. Some of the are critical to wel...

new criticism focuses on rigorous analysis of poetry and literature, irrespective of peripheral issues. its fundamental tenet is the autonomy of literary texts. therefore, new criticism shuns dealing with such peripheral issues as authors’ biography, social, political and historical events; since this approach considers all these issues as non-artistic. in principle, the followers of new critic...