A data model for algorithmic multiple criteria decision analysis

Olivier Cailloux (), Tommi Tervonen, Boris Verhaegen and François Picalausa

Annals of Operations Research, 2014, vol. 217, issue 1, 77-94

Abstract: Various software tools implementing multiple criteria decision analysis (MCDA) methods have appeared over the last decades. Although MCDA methods share common features, most of the implementing software have been developed independently from scratch. Majority of the tools have a proprietary storage format and exchanging data among software is cumbersome. Common data exchange standard would be useful for an analyst wanting to apply different methods on the same problem. The Decision Deck project has proposed to build components implementing MCDA methods in a reusable and interchangeable manner. A key element in this scheme is the XMCDA standard, a proposal that aims to standardize an XML encoding of common structures appearing in MCDA models, such as criteria and performance evaluations. Although XMCDA allows to present most data structures for MCDA models, it almost completely lacks data integrity checks. In this paper we present a new comprehensive data model for MCDA problems, implemented as an XML schema. The data model includes types that are sufficient to represent multi-attribute value/utility models, ELECTRE III/TRI models, and their stochastic extensions, and AHP. We also discuss use of the data model in algorithmic MCDA. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014

Keywords: Multiple criteria decision analysis (MCDA); Data model; Multi-attribute value theory; Utility theory; ELECTRE methods; Stochastic multicriteria acceptability analysis (SMAA); XML (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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