Open AccessPromethee I metodo taikymas geriausiai alternatyvai nustatyti
Author(s) -
Valentinas Podvezko,
Askoldas Podviezko
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
verslas: teorija ir praktika
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.369
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1822-4202
pISSN - 1648-0627
DOI - 10.3846/1648-0627.2009.10.84-92
Subject(s) - preference , selection (genetic algorithm) , operations research , mathematics , business administration , computer science , business , statistics , artificial intelligence
Decision making in human activity is often about an ability to make the best choice among a few possible alternatives. Such tasks could be selection of a technological or investment project, comparative analysis of commercial activity, financial strength or strategic potential of a number of enterprises, assessment of development level of different countries or country regions, etc. A considerable recent usage increase of multicriteria methods in quantitative analysis of social or economic phenomena is clearly observed. Such methods, but with deeper logic are using the so-called preference functions. PROMETHEE methods are such methods. Choice of the functions and their parameters is made by decision-makers. Chronologically, the first such a method is called PROMETHEE I. It furnished its core logic for all subsequent PROMETHEE methods. In such cases, when multi-criteria methods do not offer the best alternative, PROMETHEE I does it