As its title implies, Advances in Multicriteria Analysis presents the most recent developments in multicriteria analysis and in some of its principal areas of application, including marketing, research and development evaluation, financial planning, and medicine. Special attention is paid to the interaction between multicriteria analysis, decision support systems and preference modeling. The five sections of the book cover: methodology; problem structuring; utility assessment; multi-objective optimisation; real world applications.
Audience: Researchers and professionals who are operations researchers, management scientists, computer scientists, statisticians, decision analysts, marketing managers and financial analysts.

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Ding-Zhu Du is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas. For a number of years he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Combinatorial Optimization and the combinatorial optimization series editor for the SOIA book series. Professor Du is co-editor of the first and second editions of the Handbook of Combinatorial Optimization. He was also co-author (with Pardalos and Wu) of the Kluwer publication "Mathematical Theory of Optimization." Panos M. Pardalos is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Florida. Additionally, he is the Paul and Heidi Brown Preeminent Professor in Industrial & Systems Engineering. He is also an affiliated faculty member of the Computer and Information Science Department, the Hellenic Studies Center, and the Biomedical Engineering Program. He is also the Director of the Center for Applied Optimization. Dr. Pardalos is a world leading expert in global and combinatorial optimization. His recent research interests include network design problems, optimization in telecommunications, e-commerce, data mining, biomedical applications, and massive computing. He has co-authored and co-edited more than 30 books, as well as publishing more than 600 journal articles and conference proceedings. Prof. Pardalos is a Fellow of AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science), Fellow of American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), and EUROPT. He is a Distinguished International Professor by the Chinese Minister of Education; Honorary Professor of Anhui University of Sciences and Technology, China; Elizabeth Wood Dunlevie Honors Term Professor; Honorary Doctor, V.M. Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics of The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; Foreign Associate Member of Reial Academia de Doctors, Spain; and Advisory board member of the Centre for Optimisation and Its Applications, Cardiff University, UK. He is also the recipient of UF 2009 International Educator Award; Medal (in recognition of broad contributions in science and engineering) of the University of Catani, Italy; EURO Gold Medal (EGM); Honorary Doctor of Science Degree, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada; Senior Fulbright Specialist Award; University of Florida Research Foundation Professorship; and IBM Achievement Award.Xiaodong Hu is a research professor at the Institute of Applied Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was the president of OR society of China a few year ago. His research interests include combinatorial optimization, and approximation algorithms, to name just two.Weili Wu is pra ofessor of computer science at the University of Texas at Dallas. Her research interests include optimization theory, big data management and analysis, social networks, database systems, and wireless sensor networks, to name just several. She has published more than200 journal papers and 100 conference papers. Especially, she made several influential contributions in the study of wireless sensor networks, which are accumulated in a Springer publication "Optimal Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks". Dr. Konstantina Ragazou is Associate Professor of management efficiency, sustainability, and business development at the Department of Management Science and Technology, School of Economic Sciences, University of Western Macedonia (Greece). Her research interests include multicriteria decision aid, decision support systems, agile management, multivariate data analysis, and operational research. She worked for a long time for consultancy companies on large-scale projects prior to her commitment to higher education and research activities. She has authored over 60 papers in journals, chapters in books, and conference proceedings, and is the author/editor of 5 books.Dr. Constantin Zopounidis is a Professor at the Technical University of Crete (Greece). He has the esteemed position of Honorary Professor within the Department of Economics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece). His research pursuits encompass multiple criteria decision aiding (MCDA) and preference disaggregation, as well as sorting approaches and classification difficulties. In recognition of his notable contributions to the discipline, he was honored with the prestigious Edgeworth-Pareto Award bestowed by the MCDM International Society. He has authored more than 500 scholarly articles in esteemed international publications, as well as contributed to edited volumes and conference proceedings. In addition to his scholarly contributions, he has authored several books and curated edited volumes pertaining to the fields of MCDM, financial engineering and operations research. Dr. Alexandros Garefalakis is Associate Professor of Accounting at the Department of Business Administration and Tourism, School of Economic Sciences, Hellenic Mediterranean University (Greece). His research pursuits encompass a range of topics, such as multicriteria decision analysis, decision-making, environmental accounting, regression analysis, and operational research. Before his academic career, he has accumulated extensive professional experience in the realm of accounting, having worked for many firms for an extended duration. He has authored over 60 scholarly publications in journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings, and is the author of more than seven books in his field.Dr. Nikolaos Sariannidis is Professor of Quantitative Methods in Accounting and Finance at the Department of Accounting and Finance, University of Western Macedonia (Greece). He is also Vice Rector Vice-Chancellor for Education Subjects at the University of Western Macedonia (Greece). His research focuses on the analysis of volatility. He has authored over one hundred scholarly publications in journals, monographs, book chapters, and conference proceedings. Additionally, he has edited and authored more than fifteen books on quantitative methods, focusing on accounting, finance, and decision-making.

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As its title implies, Advances in Multicriteria Analysis presents the most recent developments in multicriteria analysis and in some of its principal areas of application, including marketing, research and development evaluation, financial planning, and medicine. Special attention is paid to the interaction between multicriteria analysis, decision support systems and preference modeling. The five sections of the book cover: methodology; problem structuring; utility assessment; multi-objective optimisation; real world applications. Audience: Researchers and professionals who are operations researchers, management scientists, computer scientists, statisticians, decision analysts, marketing managers and financial analysts.

Inhalt
A Short Note on a Methodology for Choosing a Decision-Aid Method.- A Note on the Min in Favor Choice Procedure for Fuzzy Preference Relations.- Eliciting Information Concerning the Relative Importance of Criteria.- Unstructured Problems and Development of Prescriptive Decision Making Methods.- Multicriteria Analysis in Problem Solving and Structural Complexity.- General Overview of the Macbeth Approach.- Building Add…