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Multiple‐criteria decision aid: Some epistemological considerations
Author(s) -
Munda Giuseppe
Publication year - 1993
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/mcda.4020020106
Subject(s) - multiple criteria decision analysis , subjectivity , management science , decision analysis , decision maker , evidential reasoning approach , component (thermodynamics) , computer science , epistemology , business decision mapping , operations research , mathematics , economics , philosophy , mathematical economics , physics , thermodynamics
This paper attempts to analyse in a critical way some essential aspects of the multiple‐criteria decision aid (MCDA) methodology using modern epistemological instruments. Particular attention is paid to the problem of information precision and uncertainty and to the distinction considered essential between the concepts of choice and decision. Since it is maintained that the respect of subjectivity in decision aid is of fundamental importance, an analysis follows of the main approaches by which MCDA methods attempt to take the subjective component of the decision maker into account, indicating some characteristics which may be desirable in an MCDA model for this purpose.