Multi Criteria Analysis

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The multiple-criteria decision analysis (MCA), and multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA), German about multi-criteria decision analysis is a class of methods for the analysis of decision-making or courses of action in connection with the decision theory . The different procedures of the MCA are characterized by the fact that they do not use a single overriding criterion , but a multitude of different criteria to prepare options or alternatives for decision-making.

Individual proceedings

Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)

The Analytic Hierarchy Process or Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) was developed by mathematician Thomas L. Saaty in 1980. The AHP works hierarchically , as it brings the decision criteria into a strictly hierarchical structure.

The AHP basically follows the following steps:

  1. Establishing a goal hierarchy
  2. Determination of the priorities of the elements of the target hierarchy
  3. Calculation of weighting vectors according to the priorities
  4. Consistency check
  5. Calculation of an overall hierarchy

Utility analysis

The utility value analysis ( NWA ) was developed by Christof Zangemeister in 1970. The alternative courses of action should be arranged according to the preferences of a decision maker. The preferences are aggregated to a total value of an alternative by specifying utility values .

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supporting documents

  1. ↑ Thomas L. Saaty (1990) Multicriteria decision making - the analytic hierarchy process. Planning, priority setting, resource allocation . 2nd edition. RWS Publishing, Pittsburgh.
  2. ↑ Christof Zangemeister (1976) Utility value analysis in system technology - a methodology for multidimensional evaluation and selection of project alternatives. Diss. Techn. Univ. Berlin 1970. 4th edition. Wittemann, Munich.