PROCEEDINGS IPMU '08
Research Issues in Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM): The Impact of Uncertainty in Solution Evaluation
Piero P. Bonissone
We consider Multi Criteria Decision
Making (MCDM) as the conjunction of
three components: search, preference
tradeoffs, and interactive visualization.
The first MCDM component is the
search process over the space of
possible solutions to identify the nondominated
solutions that compose the
Pareto set. The second component is
the preference tradeoff process to
select a single solution (or a small
subset of solutions) from the Pareto set.
The third component is the interactive
visualization process to embed the
decision-maker in the solution
refinement and selection loop. We
focus on the intersection of these three
components and we highlight some
research challenges, representing gaps
in the intersection. We introduce a
requirement framework to compare
most MCDM problems, their solutions,
and analyze their performances. We
focus on the impact of uncertainty in
each of these components and illustrate
it with a real-world application.
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