An Evidential Reasoning Approach for Multiple-Attribute Decision Making with Uncertainty

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 1-18

  Yang, Jian Bo ^a   Singh, Madan G ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION THEORY;

DEMPSTER-SHAFER THEORY; MULTIPLE UNCERTAIN SUBJECTIVE JUDGMENTS; MULTIPLE-ATTRIBUTE DECISION MAKING; REASONING; UNCERTAINTY;

DECISION THEORY;

EID: 0028198009     PISSN: 00189472     EISSN: 21682909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/21.259681     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. B. G. Buchanan and E. H. Shortliffe, Rule-Based Expert Systems. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1984.
2. V. Changkong and Y. Y. Haimes, Multiobjective Decision Making—Theory Theory and Methodology. Amsterdam: North-Holland Elsevier Science, 1983.
3. T. Chen, Decision Analysis. Beijing: Publishing House for Science and Technology, 1987 (in Chinese).
4. J. L. Cohon, Multiobjective Programming and Planning. New York: Academic, 1983.
5. P. C. Fishburn, “Methods of estimating additive utilities,” Management Sci., vol. 13, no. 7, pp. 435–453, 1967.
6. C. L. Huang and K. Yong, Multiple Attribute Decision Making Methods and Applications, A State-of-Art Survey. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1981.
7. T. Isitt, “The sports tourers,” Motor Cycle Int., no. 64, pp. 18–27, Sept. 1990.
8. E. Jacquet-Lagreze and J. Siskos, “Assessing a set of additive utility functions for multicriteria decision making, the UTA method,” European J. Oper. Res., vol. 10, pp. 151–164, 1982.
9. E. Jacquet-Lagreze and M. F. Shakun, “Decision support systems for semi-structured buying decisions,” European J. Oper. Res., vol. 16, pp. 48–58, 1984.
10. E. Jacquet-Lagreze and R. Meziani, “MOLP with an interactive assessment of piecewise linear utility function,” European J. Oper. Res., vol. 31, pp. 350–357, 1987.
11. M. Jarke and F. J. Radermacher, “The Al potential of model management and its central role in decision support,” Decision Support Syst., vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 387–404, 1988.
12. M. Jarke, M. T. Jelassi, and M. F. Shakun, “MEDIATOR: Towards a negotiation support system,” European J. Oper. Res., vol. 31, pp. 314–334, 1987.
13. D. L. Keefer and S. E. Bodily, “Three point approximations for continuous random variables,” Management Sci., vol. 29, pp. 595–609, 1983.
14. S. G. Kochan, Programming in C. New York: Hayden, 1983.
15. G. Lilien and P. Kotler, Marketing Decision Making: A Model Building Approach. New York: Harper and Row, 1983.
16. B. Liu, “Analysis hierarchy process—A tool for programming and decisionmaking,” Syst. Eng., vol. 2, no. 2, 1984, (in Chinese).
17. B. Malakooti, “Theories and an exact interactive paired-comparison approach for discrete multiple-criteria problems,” IEEE Trans. Syst., Man, Cybern., vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 365–378, 1989.
18. A. C. Miller and T. R. Rice, “Discrete approximations of probability distributions,” Management Sci., vol. 29, pp. 352–362, 1983.
19. R. Lopez de Mantaras, Approximate Reasoning Models. Chichester, England: Ellis Horwood Limited, 1990.
20. T. L. Saaty, The Analytic Hierarchy Process: Planning, Priority Setting, Resource Allocation. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1980.
21. P. Sen and J. B. Yang, “A multiple criteria decision support environment for engineering design,” in Proc. 9th Int. Conf. Eng. Design, The Hague, Aug. 1993.
22. P. Sen, J. B. Yang, and P. Meldrum, “Interactive trade-off analysis in multiple criteria preliminary design of a semi-submersible,” in Proc. 6th Int. Conf. Marine Eng. Syst,, Univ. Hamburg, Germany, Sept. 1993.
23. M. G. Singh, J. B. Singh, and M. Corstjens, “Mark-Opt—A negotiation tool for manufacturers and retailers,” IEEE Trans. Syst., Man, Cybern., vol. SMC-15, no. 4, pp. 483–495, 1985.
24. M. G. Singh, R. Cook, and M. Corstjens, “A hybrid knowledge-based based system for allocating retail space and for other allocation problems,” Interface, vol. 18, no. 5, pp. 13–22, 1988.
25. C. C. White, A. P. Sage, and S. Dozono, “A model of multiattribute decisionmaking and trade-off weight determination under uncertainty,” IEEE Trans. Syst., Man, Cybern., vol. SMC-14, no. 2, pp. 223–229, 1984.
26. C. C. White, “A survey on the integration of decision analysis and expert systems for decision support,” IEEE Trans. Syst., Man, Cybern., bern., vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 358–364, 1990.
27. J. B. Yang, C. Chen, and Z. J. Zhang, “A multiobjective fuzzy decisionmaking method for planning management expert systems,” in Proc. Int. Academic Conf. Economics and Management, Shanghai, P.R. China, 1987.
28. J. B. Yang, C. Chen, and Z. J. Zhang, “The interactive decomposition method for multiobjective linear programming and its applications,” Inform. Decision Technol., vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 275–288, 1988.
29. J. B. Yang, C. Chen, and Z. J. Zhang, “The interactive step trade-off method (ISTM) for multiobjective optimization,” IEEE Trans. Syst., Man, Cybern., vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 688–695, 1990.
30. J. B. Yang, P. Sen, and P. F. Meldrum, “Multiattribute engineering design selection through concordance and discordance analysis by similarity to ideal designs,” J. Multi-Criteria Decision Anal., accepted for publication, 1993.
31. J. B. Yang and P. Sen, “A hierarchical evaluation process for multiple attribute design selection and uncertainty,” in Proc. 6th Int. Conf. Indust. Eng. Appl. Artificial Intell. Expert Syst. (IEA/AIE-93), Edinburgh, Scotland, June 1993.
32. J. B. Yang and P. Sen, “A multi-level evaluation process for hybrid MADM with uncertainty,” IEEE Trans. Syst., Man, Cybern., accepted for publication, 1993.
33. J. B. Yang, “A hybrid multicriteria decision support system for engineering design,” Res. Rep., EDCN/MCDM/PAPERS/3/2, Eng. Design Centre, Univ. Newcastle upon Tyne, England, 1992.
34. J. B. Yang and P. Sen, “An artificial neural network approach for nonlinear optimization with discrete design variables,” in Proc. 16th IFIP Conf. Syst. Modelling and Optimiz., Compiegne, France, July 1993.
35. Z. J. Zhang, J. B. Yang, and D. L. Xu, “A hierarchical analysis model for multiobjective decisionmaking,” in Proc. 4th IFAC/IFIP/ IFORS/IEA Conf. Man Machine Syst., Xi’an, P.R. China, 1989.