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Decision Support Systems Based on Reference Sets
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by
Andrzej M.J. Skulimowski
University of Mining and Metallurgy Press, Cracow, 1996
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>From the Preface:
"There exist two basic types of decision problems. One is
confronted with the solution of problems of the first
type if the preferences of the decision-maker are clearly
stated, but the information about the alternative
characteristics is incomplete. The problems of the second
type are characterized by the usually large amount of
additional preference information, which should be
acquired from experts and/or the decision maker(s),
evaluated, and used in an optimal way to select a
compromise decision support procedure. The main
difficulty in the first kind of problems consists in
getting the appropriate information, which may often be a
very hard task. As an example for this type of problems
may serve the stock exchange investment decisions, where
the criteria are well defined and the decision to be made
is well defined provided that the future stock prices are
known. Since the latter are ex definitione unknown, they
are replaced by some stochastic estimation, and the
decision problem becomes a typical decision-making
problem with risk. In the second type of problems the
difficulty consists in constructing an appropriate
mathematical model of the decision situation using all
relevant information available".
Contents:
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Summary
1. Preface
2. Mathematical Foundations of Multicriteria Optimization
3. A Brief Introduction to Multicriteria Optimization and
Multicriteria Decision Theory
4. The Structure of Sets of Reference Points
5. Optimality Conditions for Decision Choice Methods Based
on Reference Points and Proximity Measures
6. Application of Multiple Reference Points and Reference
Sets to Multicriteria Decision Support
7. An Interactive Modification of Constraints To Attain a
Target Reference Set
8. Optimal Control of Discrete - Event Systems Based on
Reference Sets and Reference Trajectories
9. Final Remarks on "How to Apply the Decision Support
Tools?"
Bibliography
Index
List of Symbols
AGH PUBLISHERS, CRACOW, December 1996
ISSN 0867-6631, 165pp, softbound
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