Brief Syllabus

Note: Documents for download must be read. More advanced documents can be found in the bibliography section. They are highly recommended.

Class 1 “Introduction”

• Decision and decision aiding
• Decision processes

Documents

• Decision-aid: an elementary introduction with emphasis on multiple criteria B. Roy, D. Bouyssou

slides

Class 2 “Preference Modelling”

• Language of preference modelling

• Main structures
• Numerical representation
• Extensions

Documents

• Binary relations and preference modelling, D. Bouyssou, Ph. Vincke
• Numerical representations of binary relations with thresholds: A brief survey, Fuad Aleskerov, Denis Bouyssou, Bernard Monjardet

slides

Class 3 “Social Choice”

• Introduction to Social Choice
• Voting Procedures
• Arrow’s theorem and extensions

Documents

• Social Choice Theory and Multicriteria decision aiding, D. Bouyssou, Th. Marchant, P. Perny

slides

Class 4 “Multiattribute Value Theory”

• Basic results on additive value functions
• Direct and indirect elicitation procedures : standard sequences and UTA

Documents

• Conjoint measurement tools dor MCDM, A brief introduction, D. Bouyssou, M. Pirlot

slides

Class 5 “ELECTRE methods”

• Will be given by someone else