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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

Decision support methods from operations research are widely used to support complex planning decisions. Within the energy sector, energy system models (ESMs) applying modelling to generate alternatives (MGA) generate large sets of…

General Economics · Economics 2026-05-25 Emily Bergup , Jonas Finke , Sebastian Schär , Valentin Bertsch

Modern methods for multi-criteria assessment (MCA), such as Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA), and Multiple Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM), are utilized to appraise a collection of Decision-Making Units…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Fuh-Hwa Franklin Liu , Su-Chuan Shih

The last decade has witnessed an ever-growing user demand for a better QoS (Quality Of Service) and the fast growth of connected devices still put high pressure on the legacy network infrastructures. To improve network performances, better…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Mohamed Redha Bouakouk , Abdelkrim Abdelli , Lynda Mokdad , Jalel Ben Othman

We introduce a method for explaining the results of various linear and hierarchical multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) techniques such as WSM and AHP. The two key ideas are (A) to maintain a fine-grained representation of the values…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Martin Erwig , Prashant Kumar

In sales and marketing, customer segmentation is an important tool for formulating strategies for customer treatment and supply chain management. Most segmentation implementations rely on limited criteria, such as recency, frequency, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Muhammad Raees , Konstantinos Papangelis , Vassilis Javed Khan

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

Medical Decision-Making (MDM) is a complex process requiring substantial domain-specific expertise to effectively synthesize heterogeneous and complicated clinical information. While recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) show…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Liuxin Bao , Zhihao Peng , Xiaofei Zhou , Runmin Cong , Jiyong Zhang , Yixuan Yuan

In this study, we propose a multicriteria group decision making (MCGDM) algorithm under uncertainty where data is collected as intervals. The proposed MCGDM algorithm aggregates the data, determines the optimal weights for criteria and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Hadi A. Khorshidi , Uwe Aickelin

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

Over the years, Software Quality Engineering has increased interest, demonstrated by significant research papers published in this area. Determining when a software artifact is qualitatively valid is tricky, given the impossibility of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Francesco Basciani , Daniele Di Pompeo , Juri Di Rocco , Alfonso Pierantonio

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 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

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

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

Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) techniques have found widespread application across diverse fields. The rapid evolution of MCDM has led to the development of hundreds of methods, each employing distinct approaches. However, due to…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2025-09-11 Nguyen Thi Thu Hien , Pham Huong Quynh , Vu Quang Minh

Algorithm portfolio and selection approaches have achieved remarkable improvements over single solvers. However, the implementation of such systems is often highly customised and specific to the problem domain. This makes it difficult for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-05-01 Lars Kotthoff

Existing multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods often face challenges when evaluating a large number of alternatives, leading to skewed results in selecting the optimal choice. Similarly, conventional efficiency analysis (EA)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Fuh-Hwa Franklin Liu , Su-Chuan Shih

Various industries have produced a large number of documents such as industrial plans, technical guidelines, and regulations that are structurally complex and content-wise fragmented. This poses significant challenges for experts and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Hongjia Wu , Hongxin Zhang , Wei Chen , Jiazhi Xia

In this paper, we focus on the problem of robustifying reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms with respect to model uncertainties. Indeed, in the framework of model-based RL, we propose to merge the theory of constrained Markov decision…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Reazul Hasan Russel , Mouhacine Benosman , Jeroen Van Baar