Multi-Objective Decision Analysis — the Right Objectives?

A number of different authors, over a considerable period of time, have pointed out that there is a discernable lack of applications of MODM techniques in practice (cf. Hwang and Masud 1979; Lockett et al. 1984). Whilst at first glance there appears to be a marked increase in reported applications in the recent literature, a closer examination reveals that many of the papers in fact merely put forward generalised models — i.e. proposals for applications — or deal with the solution of highly idealised problems. Certainly, there are not a great many papers which describe applications involving a real decision maker and even fewer where the results obtained in the analysis are reported to have actually been implemented.

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