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A Comparison of Two Visualisation Methods for Decision Support in MCDM Problems

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The Outranking method PROMETHEE comprises as a visualization method Geometrical Analysis for Interactive Aid (GAIA). Another visualisation method is Multidimensional Scaling (MDS) linked with Property Fitting. This paper compares the two different approaches.

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  1. Leibniz Universitaet Hannover, Koenigsworther Platz 1, 30167 , Hannover, Germany

    Bastian Schmidtmann

  2. Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen, Platz der Goettinger Sieben 3, 37073 , Goettingen, Germany

    Genoveva Uskova, Harald Uhlemair & Jutta Geldermann

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  1. Bastian Schmidtmann
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Correspondence to Bastian Schmidtmann .

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Institute of Production Management, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hannover, Germany

    Stefan Helber

  2. Institute for Information Systems Resear, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hannover, Germany

    Michael Breitner

  3. Institute for Banking and Finance, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hannover, Germany

    Daniel Rösch

  4. Institute of Production Management, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hannover, Germany

    Cornelia Schön

  5. Institute for Risk and Insurance, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hannover, Germany

    Johann-Matthias Graf von der Schulenburg

  6. Institute of Statistics, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hannover, Germany

    Philipp Sibbertsen

  7. Institute of Applied Mathematics, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hannover, Germany

    Marc Steinbach

  8. Institute of Probability and Statistics, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hannover, Germany

    Stefan Weber

  9. Institute of Production Management, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hannover, Germany

    Anja Wolter

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Schmidtmann, B., Uskova, G., Uhlemair, H., Geldermann, J. (2014). A Comparison of Two Visualisation Methods for Decision Support in MCDM Problems. In: Helber, S., et al. Operations Research Proceedings 2012. Operations Research Proceedings. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00795-3_13

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