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Hybrid Method of Multicriteria Evaluation of Decision Alternatives

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In the paper we develop a hybrid decision support method in case of dependent decision criteria. It includes methods of decision theory, fuzzy sets, mathematical programming and statistics, which are adapted to different stages of the multicriteria evaluation of alternatives depending on the specific problem being solved and on the quality of the input expert information. The use of the hybrid method is illustrated by the solution of practical problems.

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  1. Institute of Applied Systems Analysis, National Technical University of Ukraine “Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”, Kyiv, Ukraine

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Translated from Kibernetika i Sistemnyi Analiz, No. 5, September–October, 2014, pp. 58–70.

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Pankratova, N.D., Nedashkovskaya, N.I. Hybrid Method of Multicriteria Evaluation of Decision Alternatives. Cybern Syst Anal 50, 701–711 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10559-014-9660-2

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