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The aggregation of various MCDM methods in an integrative decision support system leads to the idea of providing further possibilities of application besides their interactive, sequential usage from a unified user interface. Referring to the formulation of the meta decision problem proposed in Chapter 2 which asks for a design of an MCDM method specific to the respective situation, we shall analyze whether and how different methods can be combined for solving a decision problem.
“There still exists among ourselves an activity which on the technical plane gives quite a good understanding of what a science we prefer to call ‘prior’ rather than ‘primitive’, could have been on the plane of speculation. This is what is commonly called ‘bricolage’ in French.”
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, The Savage Mind
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See Hanne (1994, 1997a). A more deeply elaborated example for the combined application of methods is discussed below in Section 2. of Chapter 6. A formal semantics for such an approach of application is introduced in Sections 5. and 6. of this chapter.
Occasionally, the idea, possibility, and usefulness to work with conceptual building blocks as with methods has already been analyzed in different connections: Newell and Simon (1972) propose to analyze elementary operations in decision procedures and to combine them within complex problem solving strategies. Larichev (1985) analyzes elementary operations within interactive MCDM methods and discusses them in a psychological context.
Cf. Larichev (1985, p. 37).
This follows from Theorem 3.2.1 in Sawaragi, Nakayama and Tanino (1985, p. 48).
Cf. the efficiency propositions in Appendix A as well as Gearhart (1984).
See also Alley (1983).
Also cf. Malakooti and Zhou (1994).
See, e.g., Wegener (1989), especially p. 14–17.
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Hanne, T. (2001). On the Combination of MCDM Methods. In: Intelligent Strategies for Meta Multiple Criteria Decision Making. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, vol 33. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1595-1_4
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