This feature cluster of the European Journal of Operational Research is one of three special issues devoted to results from the Sixteenth International Conference on Multi-Criteria Decision Making held at Semmering, Austria, on February 18–22, 2002. The special issue of the Journal of MultiCriteria Decision Making edited by Matthias Ehrgott and Mikulas Luptacik will focus on application-oriente...

Choosing the best option out of many available options is always goal to be achieved in all areas. However, parameters (criteria) each alternative are not same, sometimes contradictory. In this situation, choosing an extremely difficult decision for maker. Multi-criteria making (MCDM) ranking alternatives based on criteria alternative. More than one hundred multi-criteria decision-making method...

Multi-criteria decision methods are very popular in decision-making for many application fields thanks to their versatility and ability involve qualitative quantitative data the analysis. On other hand, of these techniques requires time consuming analysis involvement expert users process. In this paper, a novel method named Card Game Analysis (CGA) is proposed perform Decision Making (MCDM) Suc...

Purpose This paper proposes a new multi-criteria decision-making method, called the vital-immaterial-mediocre method (VIMM), to determine weight of multiple conflicting and subjective criteria in problem. Design/methodology/approach The novel utilizes pairwise comparisons, vector-based procedures scoring approach weights criteria. VIMM compares alternatives by three crucial components, namely v...