Do not confuse

Bernard Roy

International Journal of Multicriteria Decision Making, 2016, vol. 6, issue 2, 112-117

Abstract: The purpose of this short paper is to underscore some sources of confusion which are important for practitioners and theoreticians of operations research and decision aiding (OR-DA). What should not be confused? The following: two types of registers or objectives; two types of attitudes or procedures and two types of approaches for apprehending reality, or for fitting into a process!

Keywords: multicriteria decision aiding; MCDA; multicriteria decision making; MCDM; legitimacy; constructivism; preference model; operations research; uncertainty; incomparability; objectivity. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=77880 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ids:ijmcdm:v:6:y:2016:i:2:p:112-117

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in International Journal of Multicriteria Decision Making from Inderscience Enterprises Ltd
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sarah Parker ().