Trade-off ranking method for multi-criteria decision analysis

Trade-off ranking method for multi-criteria decision analysis

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Article ID: iaor20172462
Volume: 24
Issue: 3-4
Start Page Number: 121
End Page Number: 132
Publication Date: May 2017
Journal: Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis
Authors: ,
Keywords: decision theory: multiple criteria
Abstract:

Multi‐criteria decision analysis presumes trade‐off between different criteria. As a result, the optimal solution is not unique and can be represented by the Pareto frontier in the objective space. Each Pareto solution is a compromise between different objectives. Despite a limited number of Pareto optimal solutions, the decision‐maker eventually has to choose only one option. Such a choice has to be made with the use of additional preferences not included in the original formulation of the optimization problem. The paper represents a new approach to an automatic ranking that can help the decision‐maker. In contrast to the other methodologies, the proposed method is based on the minimization of trade‐off between different Pareto solutions. To be realized, the approach presumes the existence of a well‐distributed Pareto set representing the entire Pareto frontier. In the paper, such a set is generated with the use of the directed search domain algorithm. The method is applied to a number of test cases and compared against two existing alternative approaches.

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