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Sorting subcontractors’ activities in construction projects with a novel Additive-veto sorting approach

open access: yesJournal of Civil Engineering and Management, 2019
Selection processes in civil engineering infrastructure projects might require more time and effort than the decisionmakers involved in these projects are normally prepared to devote to running them.
Rachel Perez Palha   +3 more
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Multiple futures and multiple discount rates in multiple criteria analysis [PDF]

open access: yesProject Appraisal, 1989
This paper explores the existence of a bridge between multiple criteria analysis (MCA) and conventional cost-benefit analysis (CBA) by focusing attention on the role the future plays in each. In this context, the impact of social rates of discount on the final choice of an alternative is emphasised.
Peter Nijkamp   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

The benefits of global scaling in multi-criteria decision analysis [PDF]

open access: yesJudgment and Decision Making, 2009
When there are multiple competing objectives in a decision-making process, Multi-Attribute Choice scoring models are excellent tools, permitting the incorporation of both subjective and objective attributes.
Jamie P. Monat
doaj   +3 more sources

Supporting telecommunication product sales by conjoint analysis

open access: yesJournal of Telecommunications and Information Technology, 2023
Conjoint analysis is widely used as a marketing research technique to study consumers’ product preferences and simulate customer choices. It is used in designing new products, changing or repositioning existing products, evaluating the effect of price ...
Piotr Rzepakowski
doaj   +1 more source

Multiple criteria decision analysis: an integrated approach

open access: yes, 2002
The field of multiple criteria decision analysis (MCDA) - also sometimes termed multiple criteria decision aid, or multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) - has developed rapidly over the past quarter century and in the process a number of divergent ...
Belton, V., Stewart, T.J.
core   +2 more sources

Multiple criteria decision support web‐based system for building refurbishment

open access: yesJournal of Civil Engineering and Management, 2004
In order to design and realise an efficient building refurbishment, it is necessary to carry out an exhaustive investigation of all solutions that form it, ie planimetric and volumetric changes, the elimination of building deterioration and obsolescence,
Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Multiple Criteria Evaluation of the EU Country Sustainable Construction Industry Lifecycles

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2020
This article looks at the trends and success of the sustainable construction industries in the EU member states, the UK and Norway. The research, covering the past three decades, revealed that different quality of life, macroeconomic, human development ...
Arturas Kaklauskas   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Development, test and comparison of two Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis(MCDA) models: A case of healthcare infrastructure location [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
When planning a new development, location decisions have always been a major issue. This paper examines and compares two modelling methods used to inform a healthcare infrastructure location decision. Two Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) models
Bamford, D   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Integrating multiple criteria decision analysis into participatory forest planning [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Following the development of sustainable forest management, the focus of forest planning has shifted from being exclusively concerned with timber production to encompassing other benefits of forests as well, e.g. biodiversity and recreation.
Nordström, Eva-Maria
core   +1 more source

A data model for algorithmic multiple criteria decision analysis [PDF]

open access: yesAnnals of Operations Research, 2014
Various software tools implementing Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) methods have appeared over the last decades. Although MCDA methods share common features, most of the implementing software have been developed independently from scratch.
Cailloux, Olivier   +3 more
openaire   +5 more sources

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