Multicriteria Methodology for Decision Aiding

• Introductory Chapters: How to Aid Whom with What Types of Decisions.- 1: Decision Problems and Processes.- 2: Decision Aiding: Major Actors and the Role of Models.- 3: Reference Examples.- 4: Phases and Options of an Approach to Decision Aiding (General Ideas of the Methodology).- Level I: How to Determine What is Possible and in What Terms to Formulate a Problem.- 5: Actions and Decision Aiding.- 6: Problematics as Guides in Decision Aiding.- Level II: How to Determine Preferences and on What Bases.- 7: Preference, Indifference, Incomparability: Binary Relations and Basic Structures.- 8: Comparing Actions and Modeling Consequences.- 9: Comparing Actions and Developing Criteria.- Levels III and IV: How to Proceed from Multiple Criteria to Comprehensive Preferences and Develop Recommendations.- 10: Coherent Criterion Family and Decision Aiding in the Description Problematic.- 11: Modeling Comprehensive Preferences: Three Operational Approaches for Progressing beyond the Description Problematic.- 12: Specific Difficulties in Choice, Sorting, and Ranking Problematics.

'So who should read this book? Just about everybody concerned with supporting decisions. ... all will gain valuable new perspectiveness. On decision making and decision support. This book is too important ... I recommend it wholeheartedly as a thought provoking read.' Journal of the Operational Research Society, 48 (1998) 'There is no dbout that this book is one of the most important publications in MCDA to have appeared in the history of the subject. It should be essential reading for anyone working in the field of multicriteria decision support.' Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 11:2 (1998)