TY  - JOUR
AB  - Purpose– Multi‐criteria decision making exists in the daily lives with broad application backgrounds. Sometimes because of incomplete information, the weights can only be estimated subjectively, which leads to an unsatisfactory result. The purpose of this paper is to describe an interactive technique to decide multi‐criteria weights by multiple decision makers in the condition of incomplete information by means of virtual environment.Design/methodology/approach– The procedure assumed a problem with n criteria and r decision makers. The algorithms employed are presented.Findings– It was found that the proposed framework is an effective weight‐deciding tool; the procedure quickly locates excellent compromise weights in a series of test problems.Originality/value– The methodology helps decision makers determine a most preferred final solution by the virtual environment especially when there is incomplete information. The procedures provide a mechanism to guide the decision makers towards an acceptable compromise solution, without requiring excessive decision maker input. Studies show that the procedure performs well in terms of solution quality, simplicity, computational requirements, convergence and flexibility.
VL  - 38
IS  - 3/4
SN  - 0368-492X
DO  - 10.1108/03684920910944065
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/03684920910944065
AU  - Guo‐shan Liu
AU  - Yu‐hong He
ED  - Mian‐yun Chen
ED  - Yi Lin
ED  - Hejing Xiong
PY  - 2009
Y1  - 2009/01/01
TI  - An interactive algorithm for deciding multi‐criteria weights in incomplete information environment
T2  - Kybernetes
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 369
EP  - 380
Y2  - 2024/04/16
ER  -