Multiple Criteria Decision Making is a formal approach to assist decision makers to select the best solutions among multiple alternatives by assessing criteria which are relatively precise but generally conflicting. The utilization of MCDM are quite popular and common in software development process. In this study, a systematic literature review which includes creating review protocol, selectin...

Multi criterion Decision Making (MCDM) methods are widely applied in many domains for finding rank based on the available conflicting nature of the criteria and to choose the best alternative. MCDM methods comprise of complex mathematical calculations which required time to solve, especially, when number of criteria and alternatives are more. In order to automate the process software is require...

Determining the number of clusters in a data set is an essential yet difficult step in cluster analysis. Since this task involves more than one criterion, it can be modeled as a multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) problem. This paper proposes a multiple criteria decision making (MCDM)-based approach to estimate the number of clusters for a given data set. In this approach, MCDM methods con...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the use of multiple criterion decision making (MCDM) in accounting expert systems (AES). Focusing on the MCDM nature of expert system evaluation functions leads towards a partial taxonomy of AES and a further understanding of "intelligence" in AES. The focus on the MCDM nature of the evaluation functions also serves to highlight the limitations of some of...

The main purpose of this paper is to develop a fuzzy multiple criteria decision-making (MCDM) model to evaluate the investment risk of location selection for container terminals. Firstly, some concepts and methods used to develop a fuzzy MCDM algorithm are briefly introduced. Secondly, a step-by-step fuzzy MCDM algorithm based on the concept of integral value is proposed. Finally, a numerical e...

ABSTRACT. ––Land suitability assessment in a Geographic Information System (GIS) environment is formulated as a multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) problem. Different MCDM approaches are developed to combine factors in a suitability analysis of land for potential land uses. These MCDM approaches are used to develop a generic suitability index. Approaches include both qualitative and quantitat...

Planning essentially involves decision making of some kind either by a single or a group of decision makers (planners). Quite often these decision making tasks are loaded with multiple conflicting objectives (goals, criteria etc). It becomes a formidable tasks for the planners to find a compromise solution in such circumstances. The techniques of multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) become ...

This chapter aims to delineate measurement of level-of-satisfaction during decision making under intelligent fuzzy environment. Before proceeding with the multi-criteria decisionmaking model (MCDM), we attempt to build a co-relation among decision support systems (DSS), decision theories and fuzziness of information. The so-relation shows the necessity of incorporating decision makers’ (DM) lev...

In Gal and Hanne [Eur. J. Oper. Res. 119 (1999) 373] the problem of using several methods to solve a multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) problem with linear objective functions after dropping nonessential objectives is analyzed. It turned out that the solution does not need be the same when using various methods for solving the system containing the nonessential objectives or not. In this ...

In the real-world problems, we are likely confronted with some alternatives that need to be evaluated with respect to multiple conflicting criteria. Multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) refers to making decisions in such a situation. There are many methods and techniques available for solving MCDM problems. The evaluation based on distance from average solution (EDAS) method is an efficient mu...