Verbal Decision Analysis For Unstructured Problems Book

	Introduction	1
1	Individual Decision Making: Approaches and Methods	9
	Participant of the process of decision making	12
	Economico-mathematical approach to problems of choice	19
	Mathematical modeling in problems of choice	29
	System approach to problems of choice	35
	Computer approach to the problems of choice	40
	Psychological approach to the problems of choice	42
	Mutual influence	49
2	A New Approach to Unstructured Problems of Decision Making	51
	Unstructured problems with qualitative variables	51
	Features of unstructured problems	53
	The role of decision making methods	54
	Requirements on the methods of decision making	55
	Measurement	56
	Valid information elicitation for constructing a decision rule	68
	Valid transformation of verbal information	76
	Closed procedures	80
	Learning procedures	83
	Explanations	84
	The new approach and construction of decision methods	84
	App. 1	85
	App. 2	90
	App. 3	94
3	The Method Zapros-LM for Partial Rank-Ordering of Multiattribute Alternatives	97
	Main ideas of the method ZAPROS-LM	97
	Problem formulation	105
	An approach to the problem solution	106
	Elicitation of information on DM's preferences	109
	Elimination of intransitivity in DM's responses	112
	Implementation of information on the DM's preferences	115
	Implementation of obtained information for comparison of real alternatives	119
	Task modification in case of criteria dependency	125
	Illustration of the method ZAPROS-LM using a simple example	128
	The evaluation of the procedure's complexity for the decision maker	131
	The interactive system ZAPROS	133
	Conclusion	143
	An Application of the method ZAPROS for R&D evaluation	145
4	The Method Pacom for the Selection of the Best Alternative	153
	Main ideas of the method PACOM (PAired COMpensation)	153
	Task formulation	160
	The general approach to the task solution	161
	Procedure for comparison of two alternatives	163
	Aggregation of information about comparison of pairs of alternatives	173
	The interactive system PACOM	174
	Implementation of the method PACOM for the analysis of the gas pipeline route selection problem	181
	Conclusion	187
5	The Method Orclass for Ordinal Classification of Multiattribute Alternatives	189
	Main ideas of the method ORCLASS (ORdinal CLASSification)	189
	The multicriteria classification problem in decision making	196
	The task formulation	197
	An approach to the rational procedure for construction of the complete ordinal classification	201
	Detection and elimination of inconsistencies in the decision maker's responses	207
	Class boundaries and their implementation	212
	Behavioral aspects of the ordinal classification task	217
	Interactive system ORCLASS and its implementation	223
	Implementation of the system ORCLASS for evaluation of R&D projects in a medical research institution	230
	Conclusion	236
	Conclusion	239
	References	247
	Index	257