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A review of multi-criteria decision-making methods for infrastructure management
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A comprehensive review on the application of multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) literature in the field of infrastructure management is presented in this paper, which identifies trends and new developments in MCDM methods.Abstract:
In infrastructure management, multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) has emerged as a decision support tool to integrate various technical information and stakeholder values. Different MCDM techniques and tools have been developed. This paper presents a comprehensive review on the application of MCDM literature in the field of infrastructure management. Approximately 300 published papers were identified that report MCDM applications in the field of infrastructure management during 1980–2012. The reviewed papers are classified into application to the type of infrastructure (e.g. bridges and pipes), and prevalent decision or intervention (e.g. repair and rehabilitate). In addition, the papers were also classified according to MCDM methods used in the analysis. The paper provides taxonomy of those articles and identifies trends and new developments in MCDM methods. The results suggest that there is a significant growth in MCDM applications in infrastructure management applications of MCDM over the last decade...read more
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State of art surveys of overviews on MCDM/MADM methods
TL;DR: There is a need for research to study the strengths and weaknesses of different decision-making methods, as the situation with reviews of MCDM/MADM methods is described.
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ELECTRE: A comprehensive literature review on methodologies and applications
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Comparative analysis of MCDM methods for ranking renewable energy sources in Taiwan
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Multiple stakeholders in multi-criteria decision-making in the context of Municipal Solid Waste Management: A review.
TL;DR: Research on the application of MCDA for solving MSWM problems is reviewed with more focus on the studies that have considered multiple stakeholders and offers solutions for such problems, showing that AHP is the most common approach.
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Structuring problems for Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis in practice: a literature review of method combinations
TL;DR: A literature review that covers eight problem structuring approaches and seven MCDA methods, finding that AHP was by far the most commonly applied MCDA method and the three PSMs most commonly combined with MCDA are SWOT, Scenario Planning and DPSIR.
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