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Multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) is a widely used tool to support decisions in which a set of alternatives should be ranked or classified based on multiple criteria. Recent studies in MCDA have shown the relevance of considering not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Betania Silva Carneiro Campello , Leonardo Tomazeli Duarte , João Marcos Travassos Romano

Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) is a branch of operations research used in a variety of domains from health care to engineering to facilitate decision-making among multiple options based on specific criteria. Several R packages have…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Annice Najafi , Shokoufeh Mirzaei

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

Contemporary macro energy systems modelling is characterized by the need to represent strategic and operational decisions with high temporal and spatial resolution and represent discrete investment and retirement decisions. This drive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-31 Michael Lau , Filippo Pecci , Jesse D. Jenkins

Decision-making units (DMUs) in a group convert the same resources (i.e., input indices) into the same products (i.e., output indices) at different scales. Performance indices have different measurement units, and their market prices per…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Fun-Hwa Franklin Liu , Su-Chuan Shih

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

This chapter assesses the sensitivity of multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods to modifications within the decision or objective matrix (DOM) in the context of chemical engineering optimization applications. Employing eight common…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-07-11 Seyed Reza Nabavi , Zhiyuan Wang , Gade Pandu Rangaiah

This chapter describes selected aggregation-type multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods that convert an alternatives-criteria matrix (ACM) into a single performance score per alternative through additive, multiplicative or hybrid…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Zhiyuan Wang , Gade Pandu Rangaiah

In this paper we explore several approaches for sampling weight vectors in the context of weighted sum scalarisation approaches for solving multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) problems. This established method converts a multi-objective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-18 Aled Williams , Yilun Cai

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have achieved strong performance on vision-language tasks, particularly Visual Question Answering (VQA). While prior work has explored unimodal biases in VQA, the problem of selection bias in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Md. Atabuzzaman , Ali Asgarov , Chris Thomas

In the future, competitive advantages will be given to organisations that can extract valuable information from massive data and make better decisions. In most cases, this data comes from multiple sources. Therefore, the challenge is to…

Applications · Statistics 2016-05-11 Igor Barahona , Judith Cavazos , Jian-Bo Yang

A number of Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) methods have been developed to rank alternatives based on several decision criteria. Usually, MCDA methods deal with the criteria value at the time the decision is made without…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Betania S. C. Campello , Leonardo T. Duarte , João M. T. Romano

In this paper, we reveal a new characterization of the super-efficiency model for Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). In DEA, the efficiency of each decision making unit (DMU) is measured by the ratio the weighted sum of outputs divided by the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-04 Tomonari Kitahara , Takashi Tsuchiya

Simulation has long been an essential part of testing autonomous driving systems, but only recently has simulation been useful for building and training self-driving vehicles. Vehicle behavioural models are necessary to simulate the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Ao Li , Liting Sun , Wei Zhan , Masayoshi Tomizuka

Strategically locating sawmills is critical for the efficiency, profitability, and sustainability of timber supply chains, yet it involves a series of complex decision-making affected by various factors, such as proximity to resources and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Mahid Ahmed , Ali Dogru , Chaoyang Zhang , Chao Meng

Transmission system operators face a variety of discrete operational decisions, such as switching of branches and/or devices. Incorporating these decisions into optimal power flow (OPF) results in mixed-integer non-linear programming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-24 Constance Crozier

Bilinear matrix inequality (BMI) problems in system and control designs are investigated in this paper. A solution method of reduction of variables (MRVs) is proposed. This method consists of a principle of variable classification, a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-16 Wei-Yu Chiu

This paper proposes a new method to evaluate Decision Making Units (DMUs) under uncertainty using fuzzy Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). In the proposed multi-objective nonlinear programming methodology both the objective functions and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-08-26 M. Zerafat Angiz L. , M. K. M. Nawawi , R. Khalid , A. Mustafa , A. Emrouznejad , R. John , G. Kendall

Limited by cognitive abilities, decision-makers (DMs) may struggle to evaluate decision alternatives based on all criteria in multiple criteria decision-making problems. This paper proposes an embedded criteria selection method derived from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Kun Zhou , Zaiwu Gong , Guo Wei , Roman Slowinski

Multimodal multi-objective problems (MMOPs) commonly arise in real-world problems where distant solutions in decision space correspond to very similar objective values. To obtain all solutions for MMOPs, many multimodal multi-objective…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Wenhua Li , Tao Zhang , Rui Wang , Jing Liang