Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis in Regional Planning - Concepts, Methods and Applications (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1988)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Theory and Decision Library B, 10
Release date:	October 2011
First published:	1988
Authors:	Fumiko Seo • Masatoshi Sakawa
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	536
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1988
ISBN-13:	978-9401082914
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Management & management techniques > Operational research
LSN:	940108291X
Barcode:	9789401082914

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