Decision Making with Multiple Objectives

The Sixth International Multiple-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) Conference is one of a biennial series that serve as a forum for exchange of the latest information and new developments in this rapidly growing field. Participants are carefully chosen from among scholars and practitioners so that widely ranging perspectives and disciplines are represented; this insures the dissemination of valuable new know ledge to those scholars, policy-makers and industrial analysts who will best utilize and share it, both in developed and in third-world countries. The Sixth Internaitona1 MCDM Conference was held from June 4 to 8, 1984, at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. The Conference program reflects the evolution of the field from infancy through adolescence to maturity, as marked by the progression from single-objective modeling and optimization to multiple-objective deci sion making. Because the theoreticians, practitioners and students who attend these MCDM conferences necessarily have different needs and expectations, the program now offers fewer monologues and more panels, overview papers and tutorial sessions, focusing on case studies and other practical experiences.

I-A State-of-the-Art Review.- Behavior Mechanism in Decision Making.- Risk Assessment and Management in a Multiobjective Framework.- Multiple Criteria Optimization: A State-of-the-Art Review.- Axiomatization of the Analytic Hierarchy Process.- II-Theory.- Duality Theory in Vector Optimization: An Overview.- Solving Stochastic Linear Programs via Goal Programming.- Some Basic Theoretical Results in Multiobjective Optimization.- Partial Preference Information and First-Order Differential Optimality: An Illustration.- Optimization of the Share of the Pareto Set for Multicriteria Models.- Use of Intuitive Preference in Directing Utility-Assessment.- Multiattribute Utility Analysis and Collective Choice: A Methodological Review.- A Nonlinear Multiattribute Utility Theory.- III-Methodology and DSS.- Computer Graphics at the Multicriterion Computer/User Interface.- Designing a Generalized Multiple-Criteria Decision Support System.- An Analysis of the Decision Behavior of Individual Decision Makers in the Course of a Computer-Assisted Interactive Decision Process.- An Interactive Procedure for Solving Multiple-Objective Integer Linear Programming Problems.- An Improved Interactive Multicriteria Integer Programming Algorithm.- On Developing a Visual Interactive Multiple Criteria Method: An Outline.- An Interactive Multiple-Criteria Linear Programming Package.- The Use of Conjoint Analysis in the Determination of Goal Programming Weights for a Decision Support System.- Goal Programming Sensitivity Analysis: The Tolerance Approach.- Multicriterion Design of High-Productivity Systems: Extensions and Applications.- Generating Alternatives in Multiple-Criteria Decision-Making Problems: A Survey.- An Interactive Procedure for Solving Group Decision Problems.- IV-Applicationsand Comparative Evaluation Studies.- Optimal Criterion Weights in Multicriteria Decision Making.- Subjective Estimation and Its Use in MCDM.- A Series of Experiments into the Use of Pairwise Comparison Techniques to Evaluate Criteria Weights.- A Comparative Study on Eigen Weight Vectors.- Experiments in Multicriteria Decision Making and What we can Learn from them: An Example.- An Experiment with Zionts-Wallenius and Steuer Interactive Programming Methods.- Goal Trade-offs for U.S. Agricultural Commodity Programs: An Application of Multiple-Objective Analysis.- Multiobjective Decision Making Under Uncertainty: An Example for Power System.- Pairwise Comparisons in a Multiobjective Energy Model.- Multiple Criteria Financial Planning Model of Public Utility Firms.- Comparison of a Multiattribute Utility and an Outranking Model Applied to a Nuclear Power Plant Siting Example.- A Multiple-Criteria Evaluation Typology of Environmental Management Problems.- Trade-Off Between Cost and Efficiency of Pollution Control.- Multicriteria Methodology for Efficient Evaluation and Ranking of R&D Project Proposals.- On the Applicability of Group Decision-Making Concepts to Wage Bargaining.- Regression Quantiles: An Example of Bicriteria Optimization.- Policy/Goal Percentaging as a Form of MCDM.- Conference Program.- List of Participants.