This book provides cutting-age research results and application experiences among researchers
and practitioners in multiple criteria decision making areas. It consists of three parts: MCDM
Foundation and Theory MCDM Methodology and MCDM Applications. In Part I it covers the
historical MCDM development the influence of MCDM on technology society and policy Pareto
optimization and analytical hierarchy process. In Part II the book presents different MCDM
algorithms based on techniques of robust estimating evolutionary multiobjective optimization
Choquet integrals and genetic search. In Part III this book demonstrates a variety of MCDM
applications including project management financial investment credit risk analysis railway
transportation online advertising transport infrastructure environmental pollution chemical
industry and regional economy. The 17 papers of the book have been selected out of the 121
accepted papers at the 20th International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making New
State of MCDM in 21st Century held at Chengdu China in 2009. All of 35 contributors of these
papers are from 10 countries.
