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A number of different authors, over a considerable period of time, have pointed out that there is a discernable lack of applications of MODM techniques in practice (cf. Hwang and Masud 1979; Lockett et al. 1984). Whilst at first glance there appears to be a marked increase in reported applications in the recent literature, a closer examination reveals that many of the papers in fact merely put forward generalised models — i.e. proposals for applications — or deal with the solution of highly idealised problems. Certainly, there are not a great many papers which describe applications involving a real decision maker and even fewer where the results obtained in the analysis are reported to have actually been implemented.
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Bischoff, E.E. (1986). Multi-Objective Decision Analysis — the Right Objectives?. In: Fandel, G., Grauer, M., Kurzhanski, A., Wierzbicki, A.P. (eds) Large-Scale Modelling and Interactive Decision Analysis. Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, vol 273. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-02473-7_17
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