Multicriteria analysis :

Zarghami, Mahdi

Multicriteria analysis : applications to water and environment management / by Mahdi Zarghami and Ferenc Szidarovzky - Heidelberg : Springer, 2011. - xi, 159 p.

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 Introduction4.2 Dominance Method--
4.3 Sequential Optimization--
4.4 The -Constraint Method--
4.5 Simple Additive Weighting--
4.6 Distance Based Methods--
4.7 Other Methods4--
.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 Model--
s7.5 Case StudiesReferences Appendix 1 Index

At the end of each chapter detailed case studies are given in water and environment management including inter-basin water transfer, urban water management, water allocation, groundwater quality management, forest treatment, ranking water resources projects, reservoir planning, water distribution network design and long-term watershed management.

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Multiple criteria decision making.

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