Weighting Methods and their Effects on Multi-Criteria Decision Making Model Outcomes in Water Resources Management

This book presents survey results on priority ranking of watershed management criteria. This survey was completed by 30 undergraduate and postgraduate students from Faculty of Civil Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. The students were registered in various programs run by the Faculty in Semester 1, 2012. The applications of three weighting methods namely rating, ranking, and ratio are discussed in the book. We have also done data mining on some keywords using three popular scholar databases. These databases include sciencedirect, scopus, and sciverse. Four abbreviated keywords (MCDM, MCDA, MCA, MADM) used to represent multi-criteria decision-making were used and these three databases were searched for different popular weighting methods for a period of 13 years (2000–2012). The findings of data mining are presented in this book. Overall, this book presents a review of weighting methods applied in various multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods.

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