Guideline for MCDA Method Selection in Production Management Area

Each decision situation is described by a set of certain characteristics—a factor which classifies it into a category of decision problems. Many times the chosen problematic determines the choice of the most suitable Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) method to be employed for supporting a decision maker. The following paper deals with directions developing in the literature on choosing the MCDA method best suited to solve a given decision problem. In the study, two sources of factors which influence the choice of the method were identified: a subject of the decision and a characteristic of dependencies in the problem description. When considering factors originating from the subject of the decision, the main focus is on case studies which support applying a particular method to a given problem. Dependencies between parameters describing a problem were analysed from the impact that the existence of various data sources has to them. The selected group of factors was consecutively generalised and its impact on the result of the decision support (using a collection of methods) was pointed out. The performed analysis constitutes the source of the strategy for choosing one method from the considered group of methods. Examples of applications in production management area are given.

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