Advances in Multi-Criteria Decision Making Methods with Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) approaches help decision-makers face problems characterized by multiple conflicting criteria. They include analytical tools and methods that have been widely used over the past few decades to solve complex decision-making problems in various fields, such as economics, finance, logistics, environmental remediation, business, engineering, medicine, law, etc.

Over the past 40 years, numerous multiple-criteria methods have been developed. The software available has made MCDM methods more accessible, increasing their use amongst researchers and the user community. Recently, there have been suggestions for combining two or more methods.

We invite researchers and practitioners to submit original research and critical survey manuscripts that propose MCDM approaches and their applications in real-life-related problems.

This Special Issue focuses on, but is not limited to, the following topics:

• Decision analysis;
• Decision support systems;
• Group decision-making;
• Integrated approaches for modeling decision-making;
• Soft-computing techniques for MCDM;
• Consistency measures;
• Pairwise comparisons.

Dr. Gabriella Marcarelli
Dr. Pietro Amenta
Dr. Antonio Lucadamo
Guest Editors

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