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Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) refers to making decisions in the presence of multiple usually conflicting objectives. Multiple criteria decision problems pervade all that we do and include such public policy tasks as determining a country’s policy developing a national energy plan, as well as planning national defense expenditures, in addition to such private enterprise tasks as new product development, pricing decisions, and research project selection. For an individual, the purchase of an automobile or a home exemplifies a multiple criteria problem. Even such routine decisions as the choice of a lunch from a menu, or the assignment of job crews to jobs constitute multiple criteria problems. All have a common thread — multiple conflicting objectives.
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Zionts, S. (1985). Multiple Criteria Mathematical Programming: An Overview and Several Approaches. In: Serafini, P. (eds) Mathematics of Multi Objective Optimization. International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, vol 289. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-2822-0_11
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