Environmental decision making using dichotomous preferences

This paper presents a new approach to multiple criteria decision making which offers some desirable features for engineering design where factors that are not easily quantified must be taken into account. The procedure relies on an ordinal ranking of criteria, and dichotomous division of alternatives with respect to a criterion, to rank alternatives. It is based on approval voting procedures which have previously been applied only to social choice problems.<<ETX>>

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