Questions guiding the choice of a multicriteria decision aiding method

• DOI: 10.1007/s40070-013-0004-7
• Publication Date: 2013-05-16T13:32:22Z
• Authors: Bernard Roy; Roman Słowiński
• Keywords: Intelligibility (philosophy); Decision maker; Decision process

We formulate some questions that may help an analyst to choose a multicriteria decision aiding method well adapted the context. These take into account several aspects of process and cooperation between maker. present these in hierarchical order, from most general crucial, through other pertinent concerning aggregation, secondary ones. The initial question is what type results expected bring. next concern requirements on preference scales, acquisition information, handling imperfect knowledge, acceptance compensation among criteria, existence interaction criteria. last are about intelligibility, axiomatic characterization, weaknesses considered methods. To illustrate questions, we introduce twelve representative realistic contexts.