Advances in Multicriteria Analysis

Editorial. I: Methodology. A short note on a methodology for choosing a decision-aid method; Ph. Vinke. A note on the `min in favor' choice procedure for fuzzy preference relations; D. Bouyssou. Eliciting information concerning the relative importance of criteria; V. Mousseau. II: Problem structuring. Unstructured problems and developments of prescriptive decision making methods; O.I. Larichev, H.M. Moshkovich. Multicriteria analysis in problem solving and structural complexity; V. Korotkich. III: Utility assessment. General overview of the Macbeth approach; C.A. Bana e Costa, J.-C. Vansnick. Building additive utilities in the presence of non-monotonic preferences; D.K. Despotis, C. Zopounidis. IV: Multi-objective optimization. The ideal-degradation-procedure: searching for vector equilibria; M. Zeleny. The light beam search-outranking based interactive procedure for multiple-objective mathematical programming; A. Jaszkiewicz, R. Slowinski. Aspiration level approach to interactive multi-objective programming and its applications; H. Nakayama. When is a Stackelberg equilibrium Pareto-optimum? A. Migdalas. V: Real-world applications. Preference disaggregation analysis in agricultural product consumer behaviour; Y. Siskos, et al. An application of the UTA discriminant model for the evaluation of R&D projects; E. Jacquet-Lagreze. Searching for a financial plan: a MOLP multiple reference point approach; J.P. Costa, J.N. Climaco. Scheduling surgeries for patients requiring post-operative intensive care: a multiple objective integer programming approach; H.P. Benson. Author index.