Multiple Criteria Decision Making in the New Millennium: Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) Ankara, Turkey, July 10–14, 2000

This volume contains a collection of papers presented at the 15th International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making held in Ankara, Turkey July 10­ 14, 2000. This was one of the regular conferences of the International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making, which are held at approximately two-year intervals. The Ankara conference had 195 participants from 38 countries. A total of 185 papers were presented at the conference. The title of our volume is MCDM in the New Millennium. The papers presented at the conference reflect the theme. We had several papers on information technology (IT) and many application papers. Of the 81 application papers presented, 14 appear in the volume. We expect more IT applications of MCDM to appear in the future, in particular in the areas of e-commerce and the internet. The conference surroundings and accomodations were excellent, and conducive to both an outstanding academic exchange, and enjoyment and a cultural broadening of participants. We had a pleasant and enjoyable outing and visit to the Anatolian Civilizations Museum. We also had an outstanding banquet at which awards were presented. The MCDM Gold Medal was presented to Professor Thomas Saaty, of the University of Pittsburgh. The MCDM Presidential Service Award was presented to ProfessorPekka Korhonen of the Helsinki School of Economics for his years of presidential service to the society. The society presented the MCDM Edgeworth-Pareto Award to Professor Alexander V. Lotov of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Table of Contents:
Evolution Toward a New State of Multi-criteria Decision Making.- The Seven Pillars of the Analytic Hierarchy Process.- Learning Aspects of Decision Aids.- Information Overload: A Decision Making Perspective.- What is the Relative Importance of Criteria and how to Use it in MCDM.- Decision-Maker Centred MCDM: Some Empirical Tests and their Implications.- Comparing Numerical and Verbal Decision Analysis Using an Arctic Resource Management Problem.- On Testing Performance of a Negotiation Procedure in Distributed Environment.- An Artificial Neural Network Approach to Multicriteria Model Selection.- A New Technique to Compare Algorithms for Bi-criteria Combinatorial Optimization Problems.- Multi-attribute Sorting of Qualitative Objects in Multiset Spaces.- Classification of Nondominated Solutions in Multiple Objective Linear Integer Programming Problems.- Competence Set Analysis: An Effective Means to Solve Non-trivial Decision Problems.- Distributed Database Design Using Multiple Criteria: A New Method.- PRIME Decisions: An Interactive Tool for Value Tree Analysis.- Using Intervals for Global Sensitivity Analyses in Multiattribute Value Trees.- Characterization of the Benson Proper Efficiency and Scalarization in Nonconvex Vector Optimization.- Problems in Scalarizing Multicriteria Approaches.- Decision Analysis of the Interval-Valued Multiobjective Linear Programming Problems.- Computing Nadir Values in Three Objectives.- Multiple Objective Genetic Local Search Algorithm.- Bounds and Bound Sets for Biobjective Combinatorial Optimization Problems.- Quick Evaluation of the Efficient Solution Set for the Biobjective Knapsack Problem.- An Interactive Genetic Algorithm Applied to the Multiobjective Knapsack Problem 265.- Evolutionary Algorithms for Multicriteria Optimization of Program Module Allocations.- Treating Ordinal Criteria in Stochastic Weight Space Analysis.- Modification of the Nominal Group Technique by Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process.- The Priorities Aggregation Approach in Unequal Power Group Decision Making.- Solving a Co-operative Two-person Game under Uncertainty Using Multiple Criteria Optimization.- A Multi-criteria Model for Warehouse Layout Design.- Multi-objective Optimization of Lot Size Balancing for Multi-products Selective Disassembly.- An Internet System to Apply the Balanced Scorecard Concept to Supply Chain Management.- Prioritizing Clean-up of Contaminated Lightstation Sites.- Environmental Application of the Feasible Goals Method: Screening of Water Quality Improvement Strategies.- Choosing a Reparation Method for a Landfill by Using the SMAA-O Multicriteria Method.- Personnel Selection Using a Fuzzy MCDM Approach Based on Ideal and Anti-ideal Solutions.- A Decision Model, via Integer Goal Programming, for Hiring and Promoting Staff in the Departments of a University.- Multiple Attribute Probabilistic Assessment of the Performance of Some Airlines.- Data Mining in Credit Card Portfolio Management: A Multiple Criteria Decision Making Approach.- Issues in the Development of a Multi-objective GA to Optimise Traffic Signal Controller Parameters.- From a Data Base to a Reference for Workplace Accident Prevention.- A Multi-criteria Approach for Power Generation Expansion Planning.- Integrated Approaches for Determining the Turkish Naval Force Structure by Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process and Goal Programming Methods.- List of Reviewers.- Author Index.