The three others members of the jury were kindly convinced by the author to use a multiple criteria and multijudge procedure to discriminate the eight candidates qualities, parallely to their more classical global evaluation.
In the proposed 11-step procedure, multiple criteria of alternatives are first reorganized as two categories – benefits and costs – and decision information will be manipulated separately.
The existence of multiple criteria in the decision-making procedure makes finding the optimal PA method more challenging.
This study of drainage systems in a tectonically active region is based on the Geographical Information Systems GISS) integration of data from an analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and a weighted linear combination (WLC) procedure with multiple criteria data.
This procedure makes multiple criteria evaluation especially attractive for integration with GIS for the purpose of solving spatially-explicit land allocation/land use problems (Carver, 1991; Jankowski, 1995; Malczewski, 2004; Chakhar and Mousseau, 2008; Chen and Paydar, 2012).
The evaluation procedures cover multiple criteria, including association with human scores, distributional differences, subgroup differences and association with external variables of interest.
Then, we performed a hierarchical clustering procedure using the Ward's minimum-variance method and multiple criteria available, such as pseudo- F statistics, pseudo-t2 statistic and Sarle's cubic clustering criterion to confirm the ideal number of clusters.
In this new procedure, nondominated solutions are generated by solving augmented weighted Tchebycheff programs (Steuer. Multiple criteria optimization: theory, computation and application. New York: Wiley, 1986).
The cards procedure was designed in the early 90 as a simple way to elicit weights for multiple criteria decision analysis outranking methods.
