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Given data on the choices made by consumers for different offer sets, a key challenge is to develop parsimonious models that describe and predict consumer choice behavior while being amenable to prescriptive tasks such as pricing and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-15 Yanqiu Ruan , Xiaobo Li , Karthyek Murthy , Karthik Natarajan

Making a decision is often a matter of listing and comparing positive and negative arguments. In such cases, the evaluation scale for decisions should be considered bipolar, that is, negative and positive values should be explicitly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-01-16 Didier Dubois , Hélène Fargier , Jean-François Bonnefon

Quite some real-world problems can be formulated as decision-making problems wherein one must repeatedly make an appropriate choice from a set of alternatives. Multiple expert judgements, whether human or artificial, can help in taking…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Axel Abels , Tom Lenaerts , Vito Trianni , Ann Nowé

In this paper we propose a new multiple criteria decision aiding method to deal with sorting problems in which alternatives are evaluated on criteria structured in a hierarchical way and presenting interactions. The underlying preference…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-11 Sally Giuseppe Arcidiacono , Salvatore Corrente , Salvatore Greco

Decision making whenever and wherever it is happened is key to organizations success. In order to make correct decision, individuals, teams and organizations need both knowledge management (to manage content) and collaboration (to manage…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-03-27 Nesrine Ben Yahia , Narjès Bellamine , Henda Ben Ghezala

The supplier selection problem is based on electing the best supplier from a group of pre-specified candidates, is identified as a Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM), is proportionately significant in terms of qualitative and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-04-17 Tamal Ghosh , Tanmoy Chakraborty , Pranab K Dan

We consider decision problems of rating alternatives based on their pairwise comparisons according to two criteria. Given pairwise comparison matrices for each criterion, the problem is to find the overall scores of the alternatives. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-02 Nikolai Krivulin

The same real-life questions posed to different individuals may lead to different answers based on their unique situations. For instance, whether a student is eligible for a scholarship depends on eligibility conditions, such as major or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Peter Baile Chen , Yi Zhang , Chunwei Liu , Sejal Gupta , Yoon Kim , Michael Cafarella

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

Multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) is a quantitative approach to the drug benefit-risk assessment (BRA) which allows for consistent comparisons by summarising all benefits and risks in a single score. The MCDA consists of several…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-07-27 Tom Menzies , Gaelle Saint-Hilary , Pavel Mozgunov

Ranking is used for a wide array of problems, most notably information retrieval (search). There are a number of popular approaches to the evaluation of ranking such as Kendall's $\tau$, Average Precision, and nDCG. When dealing with…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Denys Katerenchuk , Andrew Rosenberg

In this paper, a novel multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) methodology is presented for assessing and prioritizing medical tourism destinations in uncertain environment. A systematic evaluation and assessment method is proposed by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-28 Jagannath Roy , Kajal Chatterjee , Abhirup Bandhopadhyay , Samarjit Kar

Multi-Criteria Decision Making~(MCDM) is widely applied in various fields, using quantitative and qualitative analyses of multiple levels and attributes to support decision makers in making scientific and rational decisions in complex…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Hui Wang , Fafa Zhang , Chaoxu Mu

The allocation of limited resources to a large number of potential candidates presents a pervasive challenge. In the context of ranking and selecting top candidates from heteroscedastic units, conventional methods often result in…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-06-16 Bowen Gang , Luella Fu , Gareth James , Wenguang Sun

We consider the optimal decision-making problem in a primary sample of interest with multiple auxiliary sources available. The outcome of interest is limited in the sense that it is only observed in the primary sample. In reality, such…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-09-23 Hengrui Cai , Wenbin Lu , Rui Song

The superiority and inferiority ranking (SIR) method is a generation of the well-known PROMETHEE method, which can be more efficient to deal with multi-criterion decision making (MCDM) problem. Intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IFSs), as an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-07-07 Junyi Chai , James N. K. Liu

Collaborative filtering is an effective recommendation approach in which the preference of a user on an item is predicted based on the preferences of other users with similar interests. A big challenge in using collaborative filtering…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-03-19 Yu Zhang , Bin Cao , Dit-Yan Yeung

In multiple criteria decision aiding, very often the alternatives are compared by means of a value function compatible with the preferences expressed by the Decision Maker. The problem is that, in general, there is a plurality of compatible…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-14 Sally Giuseppe Arcidiacono , Salvatore Corrente , Salvatore Greco

Multi-label classification (MLC) is an ML task of predictive modeling in which a data instance can simultaneously belong to multiple classes. MLC is increasingly gaining interest in different application domains such as text mining,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Ana Kostovska , Carola Doerr , Sašo Džeroski , Dragi Kocev , Panče Panov , Tome Eftimov

In this paper we present novel algorithmic solutions for several resource processing and data transfer multicriteria optimization problems. The results of most of the presented techniques are strategies which solve the considered problems…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-06-28 Mugurel Ionut Andreica , Nicolae Tapus
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