Bisdorff R., Dias L.C., Meyer P., Mousseau V., Pirlot M. (eds.) Evaluation and Decision Models with Multiple Criteria. Case Studies

Springer, 2015. — 648 p.The elaboration of this Handbook has a long and colorful history. The initial call for contributions goes back to Spring 2008. It was sent to colleagues we knew were engaged in applications of Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding (MCDA); the aim of the initial book project being to emphasize methodological issues and, in particular, appropriate application of existing procedures for modeling and aggregating preferences in view of aiding decision.
The book project emerged as an initiative of the Decision Deck Project and was positively supported by COST Action IC0602 Algorithmic Decision Theory. An early contact with Springer offered the opportunity to publish a Handbook on MCDA Applications in their International Series. From the simple editing of a collection of individual papers, as planned in the beginning and aligning a list of MCDA applications, we shifted hence to an ambitious comprehensive Springer Handbook editing project, including furthermore a methodological part.
This move revealed more demanding and time consuming than anticipated. We succeeded in convincing the authors of the Evaluation and Decision Models book series (D. Bouyssou, T. Marchant, P. Perny, M. Pirlot, A. Tsoukiàs, and P. Vincke) to provide the required methodological part. It became also later opportune to add a chapter about XMCDA, a data standard to encode MCDA data in XML, and one about diviz, a software workbench to support the analyst in the decision aid process, both developed in the context of the Decision Deck Project.
Finally, we are in the position to present this Handbook to the reader. We would like to address here our apologies to our contributors for the resulting very long editing time, a time span which can explain why some references cited by the earliest contributors in this Handbook might not be the most recent. We acknowledge and take full responsibility for this inconvenience. However, we are convinced that this project became much richer. The book showcases a large variety of MCDA applications, within a coherent framework provided by the methodological chapters and the comments accompanying each case study. The chapters describing XMCDA and diviz invite the reader to experiment with MCDA methods, and perhaps develop new variants, using data from these case studies or other cases the reader might face. Every time the lessons and tools presented in this book contribute to the use of MCDA in classrooms or in real-world problems, we will feel our objective has been accomplished.Part I Theoretical Background
Aiding to Decide: Concepts and Issues
Modeling Preferences
Building Recommendations
Part II Case Studies of MCDA Applications
The EURO 2004 Best Poster Award: Choosing the Best Poster in a Scientific Conference
Multicriteria Evaluation-Based Framework for Composite Web Service Selection
Site Selection for a University Kindergarten in Madrid
Choosing a Cooling System for a Power Plant in Belgium
Participative and Multicriteria Localization of Wind Farm Projects in Corsica Island: Decision Aid Process and Result
Multi-Criteria Assessment of Data Centers Environmental Sustainability
The Cost of a Nuclear-Fuel Repository: A Criterion Valuation by Means of Fuzzy Logic
Assessing the Response to Land Degradation Risk: The Case of the Loulouka Catchment Basin in Burkina Faso
Coupling GIS and Multi-Criteria Modeling to Support Post-Accident Nuclear Risk Evaluation
A Multicriteria Spatial Decision Support System for HazardousMaterial Transport
Rural Road Maintenance in Madagascar the GENIS Project
On the Use of a Multicriteria Decision Aiding Tool for the Evaluation of Comfort
An MCDA Approach for Evaluating Hydrogen Storage Systems for Future Vehicles
An MCDA Approach for Personal Financial Planning
A Multicriteria Approach to Bank Rating
Part III MCDA Process Support Tools
XMCDA: An XML-Based Encoding Standard for MCDA Data
Supporting the MCDA Process with the diviz workbench