A comparison of two interactive MCDM procedures

A number of interactive procedures exists for multiple criteria decision making (MCDM). Different procedures may be better suited for different types of decision makers, for different types of decision situations or for different stages in the decision making process. This paper compares the computational performance of, and specifically the quality of the solutions generated by, two similar, yet contrasting, interactive procedures, the SIMOLP procedure of Reeves and Franz, and the Tchebycheff procedure of Steuer and Choo. Both procedures were easy to use and produced good quality solutions, although some differences in the performance of the two methods were observed.