A Proxy Approach to Multi-Attribute Decision Making.

摘要

In many decision problems, the possible outcomes have several important dimensions of value. To identify the optimal alternative, the decision analyst must assess the decision maker's preferences over these multi-attribute outcomes. Two rival procedures for solving multi-attribute preference problems currently exist. These two procedures, global preference modeling and local preference modeling, each have advantages and disadvantages. This dissertation combines these two rival procedures in a new approach to multi-attribute decision making. This new combined method, called the proxy approach, uses the advantages of one technique to overcome the disadvantages of the other.