Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Sorting Methods: Applications to Real-World Problems

Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) is a generic term for all methods that help people making decisions according to their preferences, in situations where there is more than one conflicting criterion. It is a branch of operational research dealing with finding optimal results in complex scenarios including various indicators, conflicting objectives and criteria. The approach of MCDM involves decision making concerning quantitative and qualitative factors.

The importance and success of MCDM are due to the fact that they have successfully dealt with different types of problematics for supporting decision makers such as choice, ranking and sorting, description.

Even though, each of the different problematics in MCDM is important, Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Sorting Methods will focus on sorting approaches across a wide range of interesting techniques and research disciplines. The applications which have been and can be solved by these techniques are more and more important in current real-world decision-making problems. Therefore, the book provides a clear overview of MCDM sorting methods and the different tools which can be used to solve real-world problems by revising such tools and characterizing them according to their performance and suitability for different types of problems.

The book is aimed at a broad audience including computer scientists, engineers, geography and GIS experts, business and financial management experts, environment experts, and all those professional people interested in MCDM and its applications. The book may also be useful for teaching MCDM courses in fields such as industrial management, computer science, and applied mathematics, as new developments in multi-criteria decision making.

多準則決策（MCDM）是一個泛指，用於幫助人們根據他們的偏好做出決策的所有方法，適用於存在多個相互衝突準則的情況。它是運籌學的一個分支，處理在複雜情境中找到最佳結果的問題，包括各種指標、相互衝突的目標和準則。MCDM的方法涉及關於定量和定性因素的決策。

MCDM的重要性和成功在於它們成功應對了不同類型的問題，以支持決策者進行選擇、排名和排序、描述等。儘管MCDM中的每個不同問題都很重要，《多準則決策排序方法》將專注於跨越各種有趣的技術和研究領域的排序方法。這些技術可以解決越來越重要的當前現實世界決策問題。因此，本書通過檢討這些工具並根據其性能和適用性對其進行特徵化，提供了MCDM排序方法的清晰概述和解決現實問題的不同工具。

本書面向廣泛的讀者，包括計算機科學家、工程師、地理和地理信息系統專家、商業和財務管理專家、環境專家以及所有對MCDM及其應用感興趣的專業人士。本書還可用於在工業管理、計算機科學和應用數學等領域教授MCDM課程，作為多準則決策的新發展。