When is a Decision-Making Method Trustworthy? Criteria for Evaluating Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Methods

摘要: Decision makers often face complicated decision problems with intangible and conflicting criteria. Numerous multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods have been proposed to handle the measurement of priorities tangible/intangible criteria in turn use them choose best alternative for a decision. However, presence many MCDM bewilders users. The existence these becomes problem itself, may be uncertain about which one use. Thus comparative analysis evaluation various has come under scrutiny by both researchers practitioners order discover if there are logical, mathematical, social or practical reasons why method is better than another. Criteria their first important issue that needs resolved. In this paper, 16 introduced used judge evaluate methods. some guidelines given help readers