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This paper presents a broader view of the Flexible and Interactive Tradeoff (FITradeoff) multicriteria method and its practical applicability in a problem of prioritization of resources for special operations in Brazilian Federal Police. The FITradeoff method works based on partial information of decision makers (DMs), but keeps the whole axiomatic structure of the classical tradeoff procedure. Due to the reduction of the level of difficulty in the elicitation process for obtaining information from the DM, this tool has a great potential for application in practical real world decision situations. This paper brings up a decision-making problem in which the aim is to rank ten special police operations, which are evaluated with respect to fourteen criteria, with the main goal of prioritizing scarce resources allocation of the Brazilian Federal Police. The decision process is aided by graphical tools presented in FITradeoff Decision Support System (DSS), which enables the elicitation process to be shortened with a view to the flexibility of the method.
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da Cunha, C.P.C.B., de Miranda Mota, C.M., de Almeida, A.T., Frej, E.A., Roselli, L.R.P. (2020). Applying the FITradeoff Method for Aiding Prioritization of Special Operations of Brazilian Federal Police. In: de Almeida, A.T., Morais, D.C. (eds) Innovation for Systems Information and Decision. INSID 2020. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 405. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64399-7_8
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