Decision analysis for evaluating and ranking small solar thermal power system technologies. Volume I. A brief introduction to multiattribute decision analysis

Technical Report · Thu Jun 01 04:00:00 EDT 1978

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6013031· OSTI ID:6013031

Feinberg, A; Miles, Jr, R F

Multiattribute decision analysis is a methodology for providing information to a decision maker for comparing and selecting between complex alternatives. A brief introduction to the principal concepts of the Keeney and Raiffa approach to multiattribute decision analysis is presented. The concepts of decision alternatives, outcomes, objectives, attributes and their states, attribute utility functions, and the necessary independence properties for the attribute states to be aggregated into a numerical representation of the preferences of the decision maker for the outcomes and the decision alternatives are presented. 50 references.

• Research Organization: Jet Propulsion Lab., Pasadena, CA (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6013031
• Report Number(s): DOE/JPL-1060-15; JPL-PUB-79-12
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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