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SMAA-TRI

A Parameter Stability Analysis Method for ELECTRE TRI

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Environmental Security in Harbors and Coastal Areas

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ELECTRE TRI is a multiple criteria decision aiding sorting method with a history of successful real-life applications. ELECTRE TRI requires as input severalparameters, such as criteria weights, thresholds, category profiles, and lambda cutting level. We propose the SMAA-TRI method for analyzing the stability ofELECTRE TRI analysis and for deriving robust conclusions. SMAA-TRI is based on Stochastic Multicriteria Acceptability Analysis (SMAA), and it allowsELECTRE TRI to be used with imprecise, arbitrarily distributed values for weights and the lambda cutting level. The method computes for each alternative action theshare of parameter values that have it assigned to different categories. We list some potential military applications. To demonstrate SMAA-TRI, we re-analyze a casestudy in the field of risk assessment and management.

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  1. Centre for Management Studies,Instituto Superior Técnico, Porto Salvo, 2780-990, Técnico

    T. Tervonen & R. Lahdelma

  2. Department of Information Technology, University of Turku, Porto Salvo, FIN-20520, Portugal

    T. Tervonen & R. Lahdelma

  3. Centre for Management Studies, Instituto Superior Técnico, Porto Salvo, 2780-990, Portugal

    J. Almeida Dias

  4. Centre for Management Studies, Instituto Superior Técnico, Porto Salvo, 2780-990, Portugal

    J. Figueira

  5. University of JyväskyläSchool of Business and Economics, 35, FI-40014, Finland

    P. Salminen

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Tervonen, T., Lahdelma, R., Almeida Dias, J., Figueira, J., Salminen, P. (2007). SMAA-TRI. In: Linkov, I., Kiker, G.A., Wenning, R.J. (eds) Environmental Security in Harbors and Coastal Areas. NATO Security through Science Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5802-8_15

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