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Evaluating the desirability of meals: an illustrative multiattribute decision analysis procedure to assess portfolios with interdependent items
Author(s) -
Chien ChenFu,
Sainfort François
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
journal of multi‐criteria decision analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.462
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1099-1360
pISSN - 1057-9214
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-1360(199807)7:4<230::aid-mcda194>3.0.co;2-v
Subject(s) - portfolio , interdependence , context (archaeology) , food choice , computer science , management science , economics , sociology , medicine , social science , paleontology , pathology , financial economics , biology
This paper presents an exploratory study designed to address complex scaling problems in applying value/utility theory to measuring preferences over alternative combinations (or portfolios) of multiattributed items. This application considers meals served to nursing home residents as portfolios of food items and seeks to maximize meal appeal. We consider food interrelation and link single food measurements to overall meal measurements in the process of constructing meal desirability scales. We test the resulting scales to capture one expert's professional judgments and discuss issues raised in this specific application in the context of general portfolio evaluation problems. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.