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Multiple Criteria Decision Support Software

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Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis: State of the Art Surveys

Part of the book series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science ((ISOR,volume 78))

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We present an overview of the current state of multiple criteria decision-making (MCDM) decision support software. Many approaches have been proposed in the literature to solve multiple criteria decision-making problems, and there is an abundance of software that implements these approaches. Much of the software is still quasi-experimental, developed by academic researchers to test specific algorithms or to solve a specific problem on an ad hoc basis.

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Weistroffer, H.R., Smith, C.H., Narula, S.C. (2005). Multiple Criteria Decision Support Software. In: Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis: State of the Art Surveys. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, vol 78. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-23081-5_24

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