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Aiding Decisions With Multiple Criteria: Essays in Honor of Bernard Roy is organized around two broad themes:
Graph Theory with path-breaking contributions on the theory of flows in networks and project scheduling,
Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding with the invention of the family of ELECTRE methods and methodological contribution to decision-aiding which lead to the creation of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA). Professor Bernard Roy has had considerable influence on the development of these two broad areas. Pds. /LIST Pds. Part one contains papers by Jacques Lesourne, and Dominique de Werra & Pierre Hansen related to the early career of Bernard Roy when he developed many new techniques and concepts in Graph Theory in order to cope with complex real-world problems. Part two of the book is devoted to Philosophy and Epistemology of Decision-Aiding with contributions from Valerie Belton & Jacques Pictet and Jean-Luis Genard & Marc Pirlot. Part three includes contributions based on Theory and Methodology of Multi-Criteria Decision-Aiding based on a general framework for conjoint measurement that allows intrasitive preferences. Denis Bouyssou & Marc Pirlot; Alexis Tsoukiàs, Patrice Perny & Philippe Vincke; Luis Dias & João Clímaco; Daniel Vanderpooten; Michael Doumpos & Constantin Zopounidis; and Marc Roubens offer a considerable range of examinations of this aspect of MCDA. Part four is devoted to Perference Modeling with contributions from Peter Fishburn; Salvatore Greco, Benedetto Matarazzo & Roman Slowinski; Salem Benferhat, Didier Dubois & Henri Prade; Oscar Franzese & Mark McCord; Bertrand Munier; and Raymond Bisdorff. Part five groups Applications of Multi-Criteria Decision-Aiding, and Carlos Henggeler Antunes, Carla Oliveira & João Clímaco; Carlos Bana e Costa, Manuel da Costa-Lobo, Isabel Ramos & Jean-Claude Vansnick; Yannis Siskos & Evangelos Grigoroudis; Jean-Pierre Brans, Pierre Kunsch & Bertrand Mareschal offer a wide variety of application problems. Finally, Part six includes contributions on Multi-Objective Mathematical Programming from Jacques Teghem, Walter Habenicht and Pekka Korhonen.
List of contents
Bernard Roy, Forty Years of Esteem and Friendship.- Connectivity, Transitivity and Chromaticity: The Pioneering Work of Bernard Roy in Graph Theory.- Decision-Aid Between Tools and Organisations.- Talking About the Practice of MCDA.- Multi-Criteria Decision-Aid in a Philosophical Perspective.- A Characterization of Strict Concordance Relations.- From Concordance/Discordance to the Modelling of Positive and Negative Reasons in Decision Aiding.- Exploring the Consequences of Imprecise Information in Choice Problems Using ELECTRE.- Modelling in Decision Aiding.- On the Use of Multicriteria Classification Methods: a Simulation Study.- Ordinal Multiattribute Sorting and Ordering in the Presence of Interacting Points of View.- Multiattribute Interval Orders.- Preference Representation by Means of Conjoint Measurement and Decision Rule Model.- Towards a Possibilistic Logic Handling of Preferences.- Empirical Comparison of Lottery- and Rating-Based Preference Assessment.- Risk Attitudes Appraisal and Cognitive Coordination in Decentralized Decision Systems.- Logical Foundation of Multicriteria Preference Aggregation.- A Study of the Interactions Between the Energy System and the Economy Using TRIMAP.- Multicriteria Approach for Strategic Town Planning.- Measuring Customer Satisfaction for Various Services Using Multicriteria Analysis.- Management of the Future.- Methodologies for Solving Multi-Obiective Combinatorial Optimization Problems.- Outcome-Based Neighborhood Search (ONS).- Searching the Efficient Frontier in Data Envelopment Analysis.
