Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis in Regional Planning: Concepts, Methods, and Applications - Couverture rigide

Seo, Fumiko; Sakawa, Masatoshi

 
9789027726414: Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis in Regional Planning: Concepts, Methods, and Applications

Synopsis

This book is devoted to presenting theoretical fundamentals for the methods of multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) in the social sciences with particular intent to their applicability to real-world decision making. The main characteristics of the complex problems facing humans in the world today are multidimensional and have multiple objecti ves; they are large-scale, and have nonconimensura te and conflicting objectives, such as economic, environmental, societal, technical, and aesthetic ones. The authors intend to establish basic concepts for treating these complex problems and to present methodological discussions for MCDM with some applications to administrative, or regional, planning. MCDM is composed of two phases: analytical and judgmental. In this book, we intend to consolidate these two phases and to present integrated methodologies for manipulating them with particular interest in managerial decision making, which has not yet been properly treated in spite of its urgent necessi ty. Al though a number of books in MCDM fields have already been published in recent years, most of them have mainly trea ted one aspect of MCDM. Our work specifically intends to trea t the methodology in unified systems and to construct a conceptual structure with special regards to the intrinsic properties of MCDM and its "economic meanings" from the social scientific point of view.

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9789401082914: Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis in Regional Planning: Concepts, Methods and Applications

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ISBN 10 :  940108291X ISBN 13 :  9789401082914
Editeur : Springer, 2011
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