| Article ID: | iaor19931269 |
| Country: | Brazil |
| Volume: | 2 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Start Page Number: | 95 |
| End Page Number: | 110 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 1991 |
| Journal: | Investigacin Operativa |
| Authors: | Roy Bernard |
| Keywords: | decision theory: multiple criteria, programming: multiple criteria |
The purpose of this paper is to present an elementary introduction to the concepts and methods used in decision-aid. After having defined the notions of action, consequence and criterion it will show the interest of multicriteria analysis and outline the main methods in that field.