Multiple Criteria Decision Making by Multiobjective Optimization

Ignacy Kaliszewski, Full Professor at the Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, graduated from the Technical University of Warsaw. He got his Ph.D. and habilitation degrees from the Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Science for his research in quantitative management science and operations research. He has published over 40 scientific papers in journals and books of international circulation and two monographs: Quantitative Pareto Analysis by Cone Separation Technique (Kluwer Academic Publ., Dordrecht, 1994), Soft Computing for Complex Multiple Criteria Decision Making (Springer, 2006). His current field of research is decision making in multicriteria environment.Janusz Miroforidis is an Assistant Professor at the Systems Research Institute of thePolish Academy of Sciences. He received his M.S. degree in computer sciencefrom the University of Wrocław, and his Ph.D. from the Systems ResearchInstitute of the Polish Academy of Science for his research in soft computingand MCDM methods for management needs. His major research interests include computeraided multiple criteria decision making, particularly as applied to complexdecision problems and evolutionary multiobjective optimization. He is aco-founder of Treeffect, a consulting company.Dmitry Podkopaev  is a Researcher andAssociate Professor for the Systems Research Institute at the Polish Academy ofSciences. His interests include Multiple Criteria Decision Making and DiscreteOptimization. He has experience in research and software development projects(as Analyst, Developer, Programmer), as well as high school teaching.

• Introduction.- Solving Decision Problems.- Decision Problem: Selection of a Single Variant.- Derivation of Efficient Variants.- Decision Problem: Selection of a Variant Portfolio - The Discrete Case.- Decision Problem: Selection of a Variant Portfolio - The Continuous Case.- Derivation of Efficient Portfolios.- Supporting the Process of the Most Preferred Variant Choice.- Decision Problems - Continuation.- Decision Problem: Selection of a Stock Portfolio.- Relations.