Multiple Criteria Decision Making

It was a great honor and privilege to organize the Tenth International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making at Taipei, Taiwan, July 19-24, 1992. Accompanying this unique honor and privilege there was a series of complex, challenging problems. Each of them involved multiple criteria, fuzziness, uncertainty, unknown yet dynamic changes. The problem sometimes cost us sleep because we wanted to do the very best job, but in reality it seemed to be impossible. The following are the main goals of the organization committee: (i) inviting all prominent and distinguished MCDM scholars around the world to participate in the conference and to present their up-to-date research results, (ii) providing financial aid and hospitality so that each invited speaker can have free room and board at a five star hotel, (iii) creating an environment so that all participants can freely exchange their ideas, and build friendships around the world. Due to the enthusiastic participation of the prominent scholars, the generous support of the Taiwan government, universities, the Industrial leaders and nonprofit foundations, and the active problem solving attitude and doing of the organizational committee and the Habitual Domain (HD) club, the conference was a great success.

1 Theme and Perspective.- Toward Expanding and Enriching Domains of Thinking and Application.- Decision Making During the Implementation of a Billion Dollar Steel Mill Project in Taiwan: Concept of Habitual Domains Application.- Multiple Criteria Decision Making: The Challenge That Lies Ahead.- 2 Theory and Technique.- Interior-Point Methods For Multiobjective Linear Programming Problems.- A Modification of Karmarkar's Algorithm to Multiobjective Linear Programming Problems.- Generalized Trade-off Directions in Multipleobjective Optimization Problems.- A Multiobjective Algorithm Integrated of Compromise Programming and NISE Method.- Minimax Regret In Linear Programming Problems with an Interval Objective Function.- A Survey of Integrated Group Decision Support Systems Involving Multiple Criteria.- The Light Beam Search Over a Non-dominated Surface of a Multiple-objective Programming Problem.- Solving the Multiobjective Decision Making Problem Using a Distance Function.- Using Multiobjective Optimization as a Separation Strategy for Nonseparable Problems.- An Interactive Algorithm for Solving Multiple Objective Nonlinear Programming Problems.- An Axiomatic Approach to Metrization of Multiset Space.- Well-Posedness in the Linear Vector Semi-Infinite Optimization.- A New Algorithm for Solving Multiobjective Linear Fractional Programming: The CONNISE Method.- 3 Fuzzy Problems in MCDM.- Finding the Most Vital Arc in the Shortest Path Problem with Fuzzy Arc Lengths.- Interactive Decision Making for Multiobjective Fuzzy Linear Regression Analysis.- Interactive Fuzzy Multiobjective Linear Programming Packages.- Effective Expansion of a Partially Known Competence Set.- 4 Decision Support and Expert Systems.- Opportunities on Parallel and Distributed Computation for Optimization and Decision Support.- Fundamentals of Intelligent Support Systems for Fuzzy Multiobjective Decision Analysis.- Multiobjective Evaluation Expert System Assisting Flexible Production System Design.- 5 Approximation, Interface and Design.- Efficient Frontier Scanning in MOLP Using a New Tool.- Man-machine interfacing In MCDA.- A Multiple Reference Point Parallel Approach in MCDM.- Interactive Decentralized Planning: Some Numerical Experiments.- Multimode Data Analysis for Decision Making.- Simulated Annealing for Multiobjective Optimization Problems.- Multicriteria Design as a Natural Phenomenon.- Approximation of the Set of Efficient Objective Vectors for Large Scale Multiple Objective Linear Problems.- Multiple Criteria Visual Interactive System With Focused Contouring of Efficient Criterion Vectors.- 6 Negotiation and Games.- Designing Multiple Criteria Negotiation Support Systems: Frameworks, Issues and Implementation.- Fuzzy Multiple Criteria Group Decision Making In Project Selection.- 7 Applications.- Can Multiple Criteria Methods Help Production Scheduling?.- The Application of Fuzzy Multi-Criteria Decision Making to the Transit System Performance Evaluation.- Scheduling with Multiple Criteria.- Engineering Applications of Multi-objective Programming: Recent Results.- Multicriteria Analysis of Estuary Restoration in the Rhine Delta.- On Design of Optimum Index Fund.