We’ve found these readings useful for teaching courses about MCDM / MCDA.
- Department for Communities and Local Government (2009), Multi-Criteria Analysis: A Manual, available from http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/12761/1/Multi-criteria_Analysis.pdf
- D Kahneman (2011), Chapters 20-22 (“The illusion of validity", “Intuitions vs. formulas”, “Expert intuition: When can we trust it?”) of Thinking, Fast and Slow, available from http://us.macmillan.com/thinkingfastandslow/DanielKahneman
- JS Hammond, RL Keeney & H Raiffa (1998), “Even swaps: A rational method for making trade-offs”, Harvard Business Review 76, 137-49
- E Forman & M Selly (2001), Chapters 1-3 (“Introduction”, “Problem solving & decision-making”, “Decision-making concepts & methodologies”), Decision by Objectives, available from http://professorforman.com/DecisionByObjectives/default.html
- R Hastie & RM Dawes (2010), Chapter 3 (“A general framework for judgment”), Rational Choice in an Uncertain World. The Psychology of Judgement & Decision Making
- V Belton & TJ Stewart (2002), Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis: An Integrated Approach (especially the first few chapters)
- R Haas & O Meixner, An Illustrated Guide to the Analytic Hierarchy Process, available from www.boku.ac.at/mi/ahp/ahptutorial.pdf
- Wikipedia on ‘Conjoint Analysis’: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjoint_analysis
- Wikipedia on ‘PAPRIKA method’: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potentially_all_pairwise_rankings_of_all_possible_alternatives
- P Hansen & F Ombler (2008), “A new method for scoring multi-attribute value models using pairwise rankings of alternatives”, Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis 15, 87-107