MCDM—If Not a Roman Numeral, Then What?

Stanley Zionts
Stanley Zionts
School of Management, State University of New York at Buffalo, New York 14214
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School of Management, State University of New York at Buffalo, New York 14214

Published Online:1 Aug 1979https://doi.org/10.1287/inte.9.4.94

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An attempt to present multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) in plain English as the author realized that most published papers on the topics are too mathematical and full of jargon, so that most of it is incomprehensible to managers.

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