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Decision-making problems normally involve multiple criteria. This is already not an easy problem to address.

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Chan, H.K., Wang, X. (2013). Hierarchical Model in Decision Making. In: Fuzzy Hierarchical Model for Risk Assessment. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5043-5_3

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