Multiple Criteria Decision Making: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference: Theory and Applications in Business, Industry, and Government

This collection of papers presents a comprehensive overview of the current state of research in decision theory. It comprises the Proceedings of the IXth International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making. The key themes are: - new analytical methodologies and management tools; - the design of experiments to test existing and proposed techniques; - to report on the experience gained over the last fifteen years in the field. All the contributors are experts in their respective fields. As a result, many researchers and practitioners of decision theory, including operations researchers and management scientists, will find this to be an invaluable survey of this very active field.