An Interactive Framework for Multi-Person, Multiobjective Decisions

ABSTRACT Group decision making in the presence of multiple conflicting objectives is complex and difficult. This paper describes and evaluates an iterative technique to facilitate multiple objective decision making by multiple decision makers. The proposed method augments an interactive multiobjecti...

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Published inDecision sciences Vol. 24; no. 1; pp. 1 - 22
Main Authors Lewis, Holly S., Butler, Timothy W.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.01.1993
American Institute for Decision Sciences
Subjects
Algorithms
Decision making
Decision support systems
Group Decision Processes and Mathematical Programming
Groups
Linear programming
Statistical analysis
Studies
Utility functions
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Summary:ABSTRACT Group decision making in the presence of multiple conflicting objectives is complex and difficult. This paper describes and evaluates an iterative technique to facilitate multiple objective decision making by multiple decision makers. The proposed method augments an interactive multiobjective optimization procedure with a preference ranking tool and a consensus ranking heuristic. Two multiple objective linear programming (MOLP) solution approaches, the SIMOLP method of Reeves and Franz [39] and the interactive weighted Tchebycheff procedure of Steuer and Choo [49], are recommended optimization strategies to be used independently or in concert. Computational experience suggests that the proposed framework is an effective decision‐making tool. The procedure quickly located excellent compromise solutions in a series of test problems with hypothetical decision makers. In addition, human decision makers gave positive evaluations of the procedure and the production plans the procedure provided for a resource allocation case problem.
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Holly S. Lewis is Assistant Professor of Management Science at The Pennsylvania State University. She received her Ph.D. in business administration from the University of South Carolina and her M.B.A. and B.S. from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Her research interests include mathematical programming and operations management. Dr. Lewis has published articles in several journals including
Decision Sciences, Interfaces, Journal of the Operational Research Society, and OMEGA
She is a member of the Decision Sciences Institute, ORSA, and TIMS.
IIET Transactions and the Journal of rhe Operational Research Society
He is a member of the Decision Sciences Institute and TIMS, and he is serving as president of the Southeastern Michigan Joint Chapter of ORSA/TIMS.
Timothy W. Butler is an Assistant Professor in the School of Business Administration at Wayne State University. He received a B.B.A. and M.B.A. from Memphis State University and his Ph.D. in business administration from the University of South Carolina. His research interests include health care operations, multiple objective decision making and simulation analysis. Dr. Butler has published in several journals including
ISSN:0011-7315
1540-5915
DOI:10.1111/j.1540-5915.1993.tb00459.x