Year: 2005
Type: book
Abstract: This paper addresses structuring of multicriteria decision aid models.Structuring provides the actors involved in a decision context with a common language for debating and arguing about their preferences and facilitates the identification of decision opportunities and the construction of new alternatives.Structuring is decomposed into (1) problem-definition, (2) modelstructuring and (3) impact assessment and analysis.The concept of policy unit is used to generalise the concept of decision actor and to introduce group, individual and mixed structuring frameworks.The notion of concern is central to structuring activities and is extensively discussed.Descriptors are then defined and classified in terms of natural, proxy and constructed descriptors.Several methods that can be used to select or construct descriptors are presented.The paper also provides extensive examples of good practice and operational tips for the structuring phase.
Authors: Carlos A. Bana e Costa, Euro Beinat
Language: English
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W161178464