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In this paper we present a case study of a real-life multicriteria decision making problem of choosing the site for a university kindergarten in Madrid. The largest private university of Madrid, San Pablo CEU, needs to build a kindergarten for staff children. This study consists of two phases. In the first phase, an approximate model was presented to the decision makers in order to motivate re-activating the process. In the second phase, a more detailed model with new alternatives was introduced. The criteria measurements as well as the preferences contain large uncertainties. Therefore, the problem is solved by using the SMAA-III method that allows to model uncertainties through joint probability distributions.
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An XMCDA 2.0 encoded performance tableau with average model parameters may be downloaded from the webpage http://leopold-loewenheim.uni.lu/Digraph3/handbook/chapter-7.
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Tervonen, T., Fernández Barberis, G., Figueira, J.R., Escribano, M.C. (2015). Site Selection for a University Kindergarten in Madrid. In: Bisdorff, R., Dias, L., Meyer, P., Mousseau, V., Pirlot, M. (eds) Evaluation and Decision Models with Multiple Criteria. International Handbooks on Information Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46816-6_7
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