Preview of the June issue featuring literature reviews of MCDA and articles authored by students

摘要

This quarter's issue of Environment Systems & Decisions features two special research highlights. First, two review papers investigate historical and future trends in the application of multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) in the academic literature. These reviews investigate different aspects of MCDA in research and in practice. Cegan et al. (2017) conduct a literature search aided by text mining analysis to explore trends in how decision-making approaches have been applied in the environmental sciences. Aspects such as methodologies (e.g., AHP, TOPSIS, MAUT, MAVT, Outranking), environmental applications (e.g., water, air, energy), and other relevant factors were documented and synthesized. Complementing this work, Kurth et al. (2017) documented trends in how MCDA has been used specifically within US government agencies. Together, these papers provide an in-depth assessment of the past, present, and future of MCDA research.