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The four words most used in multiple criteria decision making literature are: attributes, objectives, goals and criteria. There are no universal definitions of these terms as stated by Keeney and Raiffa [BM-12]. Some authors make distinctions in their usage while many use them interchangeably. We shall make some distinctions among these words in terms of their usage.
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Hwang, CL., Masud, A.S.M. (1979). Basic Concepts and Terminology. In: Multiple Objective Decision Making — Methods and Applications. Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, vol 164. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45511-7_2
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