Multicriteria Methodology for Decision Aiding

Reader's Guide. Foreword to the English-Language Edition. Introductory: How to Aid Whom with What Types of Decision. 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. Bibliography. Index.