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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH
Volume 184, Issue 1, Pages 255-265Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2006.10.045
Keywords
multiple criteria analysis; decision making; water resource management
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Multiple criteria analysis (MCA) is a framework for evaluating decision options against multiple criteria. Numerous techniques for solving an MCA problem are available. This paper applies MCA to six water management decision problems. The MCA methods tested include weighted summation, range of value, PROMTHEE II, Evamix and compromise programming. We show that different MCA methods were in strong agreement with high correlations amongst rankings. In the few cases where strong disagreement between MCA methods did occur it was due to presence of mixed ordinal-cardinal data in the evaluation matrix. The results suggest that whilst selection of the MCA technique is important more emphasis is needed on the initial structuring of the decision problem, which involves choosing criteria and decision options. (C) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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