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Preference Disaggregation

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The Disaggregation Paradigm in MCDA

  Global Preference As Datum

The ‘Famous’ UTA Method

  Objective of the Method

  The Additive Value Model

  The UTASTAR Algorithm.

Variants and Meta-UTA Techniques

Other Disaggregation Methods

Disaggregation Under Uncertainty

Disaggregation in Multi-objective Optimization

Interactive Disaggregation Systems

Applications and Conclusions

  Inference of More Sophisticated Aggregation Models by Disaggregation

  Evaluation of the Aggregation-Disaggregation Relationship

  Experimental Evaluation of Disaggregation Procedures

  Implementation of Disaggregation Methods into DSSs and Group DSSs

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    Yannis Siskos

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    Christodoulos A. Floudas

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    Panos M. Pardalos

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Siskos, Y. (2008). Preference Disaggregation . In: Floudas, C., Pardalos, P. (eds) Encyclopedia of Optimization. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-74759-0_519

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