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With increases in population, there is a noticeable change across the world in pollution levels. Recently there has been growing demand for renewable energy operated devices boomed. Numerous reasons have led to such growth including lower…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-31 Mahak Bhatia , Aled Williams

A structure called a decision making problem is considered. The set of outcomes (consequences) is partially ordered according to the decision maker's preferences. The problem is how these preferences affect a decision maker to prefer one of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Victor V. Rozen , Grigori Zhitomirski

This chapter describes selected reference-type multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods that rank alternatives by comparing them with one or more reference solutions derived from an alternatives-criteria matrix (ACM). After explaining…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-27 Zhiyuan Wang , Gade Pandu Rangaiah

Multiple choice question answering (MCQA) is popular for LLM evaluation due to its simplicity and human-like testing, but we argue for its reform. We first reveal flaws in MCQA's format, as it struggles to: 1) test generation/subjectivity;…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Nishant Balepur , Rachel Rudinger , Jordan Lee Boyd-Graber

In this paper, we consider the bipolar approach to Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA). In particular we aggregate positive and negative preferences by means of the bipolar PROMETHEE method. To elicit preferences we consider Robust…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-01-16 Salvatore Corrente , Josè Rui Figueira , Salvatore Greco

Process mining is increasingly adopted in modern organizations, producing numerous process models that, while valuable, can lead to model overload and decision-making complexity. This paper explores a multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM)…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Rob H. Bemthuis

Real-life engineering optimization problems need Multiobjective Optimization (MOO) tools. These problems are highly nonlinear. As the process of Multiple Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) is much expanded most MOO problems in different…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2010-04-20 A. Mosavi

The Choquet integral is a preference model used in Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding (MCDA) to deal with interactions between criteria. The Stochastic Multiobjective Acceptability Analysis (SMAA) is an MCDA methodology used to take into…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-02-28 Silvia Angilella , Salvatore Corrente , Salvatore Greco

We consider black-box global optimization of time-consuming-to-evaluate functions on behalf of a decision-maker (DM) whose preferences must be learned. Each feasible design is associated with a time-consuming-to-evaluate vector of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-05 Raul Astudillo , Peter I. Frazier

Multi-criteria Analysis (MCA) is used to rank alternatives based on various criteria. Key MCA methods, such as Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) methods, estimate parameters for criteria to compute the performance of each…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Fuh-Hwa Franklin Liu , Su-Chuan Shih

Preference disaggregation analysis (PDA) is a widely used approach in multicriteria decision analysis that aims to extract preferential information from holistic judgments provided by decision makers. This paper presents an original…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Betania S. C. Campello , Sarah BenAmor , Leonardo T. Duarte , João Marcos Travassos Romano

The Ordinal Priority Approach (OPA) is a multi-attribute decision-making (MADM) method to determine the relative importance (weights) of experts, attributes, and alternatives. This study formally establishes the fundamental properties of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-25 Renlong Wang

This paper presents a general framework about what is a decision problem. Our motivation is related to the fact that decision analysis and operational research are structured (as disciplines) around classes of methods, while instead we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Alberto Colorni , Alexis Tsoukiàs

It is desirable in many multi-objective machine learning applications, such as multi-task learning with conflicting objectives and multi-objective reinforcement learning, to find a Pareto solution that can match a given preference of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Xiaoyuan Zhang , Xi Lin , Qingfu Zhang

Shortlisting is the task of reducing a long list of alternatives to a (smaller) set of best or most suitable alternatives. Shortlisting is often used in the nomination process of awards or in recommender systems to display featured objects.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Martin Lackner , Jan Maly

Classical Decision Theory provides a normative framework for representing and reasoning about complex preferences. Straightforward application of this theory to automate decision making is difficult due to high elicitation cost. In response…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-01-30 Vu A. Ha , Peter Haddawy

Glyph-based visualization is one of the main techniques for visualizing complex multivariate data. With small glyphs, data variables are typically encoded with relatively low visual and perceptual precision. Glyph designers have to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Hong-Po Hsieh , Amy Zavatsky , Min Chen

Decision-making in real applications is often affected by vagueness, incomplete information, heterogeneous data, and conflicting expert opinions. This survey reviews uncertainty-aware multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) and organizes the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Takaaki Fujita , Florentin Smarandache

The goal of a traditional Markov decision process (MDP) is to maximize expected cumulative reward over a defined horizon (possibly infinite). In many applications, however, a decision maker may be interested in optimizing a specific…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Xiaocheng Li , Huaiyang Zhong , Margaret L. Brandeau

We introduce a new incremental preference elicitation procedure able to deal with noisy responses of a Decision Maker (DM). The originality of the contribution is to propose a Bayesian approach for determining a preferred solution in a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Nadjet Bourdache , Patrice Perny , Olivier Spanjaard