Multicriteria Analysis: Applications to Water and Environment Management (Hardcover, 2011)

1 Introduction to Multi Criteria Decision Analysis 1.1 Decision Analysis 1.2 The Components of MCDA Problems 1.3 Classification of MCDA Problems 2 The Hierarchy of the Criteria 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Criteria 2.3 Constructing the Hierarchy of the Criteria 3 Solution of Discrete MCDA Problems 3.1 Introduction 3.2Dominance Method 3.3 Sequential Optimization (SO) 3.4 The -Constraint Method ( CM) 3.5 Simple Additive Weighting (SAW) 3.6 Distance Based Methods (DBM) 3.7 The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) 3.8 Other Methods 3.9 Case Studies 3.10 Discussions 4 Solution of Continuous MCDA Problems 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Dominance Method 4.3 Sequential Optimization 4.4 The -Constraint Method 4.5 Simple Additive Weighting 4.6 Distance Based Methods 4.7 Other Methods 4.8 Case Studies 4.9 Discussions 5 Social Choice Methods 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Social Choice Methods 5.3 Case Studies 5.4 Consensus on the Results 5.5 Discussions 6 Conflict Resolution Methods 6.1 Introduction 6.2 The Nash Bargaining Solution 6.3 The Non-symmetric Nash Solution 6.4 Area Monotonic Solution 6.5 Equal Loss Solution 6.6 Kalai-Smorodinsky Solution 6.7 Case Studies 6.8 Discussions 7 MCDA Problems under Uncertainty 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Probabilistic Methods 7.3 Fuzzy Methods 7.4 Probabilistic-Fuzzy MCDA Models 7.5 Case Studies References Appendix 1 Index