Questions tagged [multicriteria-decision-analysis]
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Decision theory and Decision analysis
A milk producing co-operative union desires to determine how many kilograms of butter it should produce on daily basis to meet the demand. Following is the pattern of demand derived from the past ...
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Coverage Path Planning Dilemma (Trade-Off)
I have encountered a dilemma while I was trying to model a certain problem. Here is the description of the problem:
Imagine a 2D square area divided into square grids/cells. We have an agent (robot) ...
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Weighted sum in the objective function
I am working on my actual model.
The objective function aims to maximize the preferences related to each criterion pc to select the best contract that fits with the project characteristics( c1= size, ...
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Can I use a positive and negative Fibonacci scale to measure sustainability for project requests using Weighted Sum (WSM/SAW)?
I hope the question is still clear as I'm a little bit over my head with the topic.
I'm trying to measure a sustainability index/score for incoming project requests (alternatives). I'm using the ...
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Rank individuals of population after multi objective optimization using MCDM algorithm
I am trying to solve a multi objective optimization problem. It has 5 objectives. I am able to do optimization using NSGA2 algorithm of pymoo library in python. ...
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Understanding acceptable advantage in MCDM method VIKOR
As a distance-based MCDM method, unlike TOPSIS, for VIKOR, there is an "acceptability" check at the final step which confuses me, particularly for "Acceptable advantage", i.e., ...
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How can we choose the right weight to solve multi-objective problem using weighted sum method?
I have a multi-objective problem with three objectives F1, F2, and F3. the problem was formulated as a weighted sum. Now I didn't know how I can choose the right weight for my problem
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Two criteria in a problem that involves multiple-criteria decision-making
I would like your valuable opinion on one issue:
I created a decision matrix considering two criteria and 10 alternatives, as below. My problem involves determining the optimal number of clusters from ...
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Matrix normalization to use multicriteria methods
I'm using the TOPSIS and VIKOR multicriteria methods to generate rankings according to the decision matrix that I call a database. I would like to know if the ...
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Normalized VIKOR method multicriteria
I would like some help with regards to understanding why the author of an article normalized differently just for the results of the VIKOR multicriteria method. I'...
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Strengths and weaknesses of some Multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods
I have described succinctly the strengths and weaknesses of some Multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods, however, I would like if you could help me to write these points for the VIKOR and ...
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Application with VIKOR multicriteria method
What to do in these cases where I can't rank by the VIKOR multicriteria method because Q has no value?
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Conflicts with weights of the topsis method in R
Why can't I generate for the topsis method, choosing a w <- c(1, 0)? As far as I know it has to be the sum of the weights ...
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How to utilize Spearman Rho coefficient
The dataset below presents the ranking of different multicriteria methods. My idea is to generate a final ranking based on the multicriteria methods for all alternatives, but it can be seen that in ...
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Using VIKOR multicriteria method in R
I'm using the VIKOR multicriteria method from the MCDM package. The example can be found here: https://cran.r-project.org/web/...