Multiple Criteria Decision Making, Multiattribute Utility Theory: The Next Ten Years

Management science and decision science have grown exponentially since midcentury. Two closely-related fields central to this growth are multiple criteria decision making MCDM and multiattribute utility theory MAUT. This paper comments on the history of MCDM and MAUT and discusses topics we believe are important in their continued development and usefulness to management science over the next decade. Our aim is to identify exciting directions and promising areas for future research.

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