Multicriterion Decision Merging: Competitive Development of an Aboriginal Whaling Management Procedure

Abstract International Whaling Commission management of aboriginal subsistence whaling will eventually use an aboriginal whaling management procedure (AWMP) chosen from a collection of candidate procedures after grueling simulation testing. An AWMP is a fully automatic algorithm designed to operate on the results of an assessment (i.e., a statistical estimation problem relying on sparse series of whale abundance data) to produce a catch limit in each year of real or simulated management. An AWMP should, as much as possible, meet the conflicting objectives of low population risk, high satisfaction of needed catch, and high rate of population recovery. The choice of the best procedure falls naturally in the multicriterion decision making framework, because one of several candidates must be chosen on the basis of high-dimensional simulated performance summaries over a wide range of assumptions about whales and whaling. However, standard multicriterion decision making methods are impractical and unsatisfying ...

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