Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Sorting Methods

Chapter 1: Multi-Criteria Decision-Making

Abstract

This book is devoted to Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) Sorting methods whose grounds come from MCDM. Consequently, this chapter aims at providing a brief but insightful historical view of MCDM together the importance of MCDM problems in our society and point out the different types of MCDM methods that have been widely used in real-world problems. Therefore, the basic elements of MCDM problems, the different classes of such problems together their multiple types and categories are reviewed in this chapter.

Keywords

Multi-Criteria Decision-Making; Multi-Objective Decision-Making; Multi-Attribute Decision-Making

1.1 Introduction

Decision making is a common task in human beings' daily lives. They ...