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Disaggregation Approach to Value Elicitation

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The philosophy of preference disaggregation in multicriteria decision analysis encapsulates the assessment/inference of preference models, from given preferential structures, and the implementation of decision aid activities through consistent and robust operational models. This chapter presents a new outlook on the well-known UTA method, which is devoted to the elicitation of values through the inference of multiple additive value models. On top of that, it incorporates the latest theoretical developments, related to the robustness control of both the decision model and the surfacing decision aiding conclusions. An application example on job evaluation is elaborated as an educative example, while other potential areas for future use applications of the methodological framework are listed. The chapter concludes with several promising directions for future research.

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  1. Decision Support Systems Laboratory, Technical University of Crete, University Campus, Kounoupidiana, 73100, Chania, Greece

    Nikolaos F. Matsatsinis & Evangelos Grigoroudis

  2. School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 9, Iroon Polytechniou Str., 15780, Athens, Zografou, Greece

    Eleftherios Siskos

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Matsatsinis, N.F., Grigoroudis, E., Siskos, E. (2018). Disaggregation Approach to Value Elicitation. In: Dias, L., Morton, A., Quigley, J. (eds) Elicitation. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, vol 261. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65052-4_13

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