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| ENVT0749-1 | Decision-making aid : methods of multicriteria analysis
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| Duration : | 12h Th, 12h Pr |
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| Lecturer : | Jean-Jacques Boreux |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language |
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the first semester, review in January |
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Course contents :
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| This course includes four chapters.
Chapter 1 is an introduction to the decision support in uncertain future via the famous example of the omelet proposed by Leonard Savage in 1956. With three possible decisions, each with advantages and disadvantages, the omelet of Savage gives a clear idea of the word "risk", allows introducing the concept of utility and building a utility point by point function. It is shown that this decision problem can be seen and solved a problem of multi criteria choice.
Chapter 2 introduced the multi criteria analysis and distinguishes between methods Condorcet (ELECTRE) and Borda (compromised programming) by the theory of social choice: the elector has voted, who is elected? The Arrow impossibility theorem shows that there is no free system of default to aggregate individual preferences in a choice of society.
Chapter 3 is an introduction to methods of upgrade through the ELECTRE I and II ELECTRE methods while Saaty's method teaches us how to weigh the criteria in a coherent way.
Chapter 4 introduces the concept of pseudo-criteria (fuzzy number) and presents the ELECTRE III methods. |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| The purpose of the course is to give clear ideas on the decision support in uncertain future through multi criteria analysis. The theoretical bases are limited to the essential in the sense that the student learns how to do and about the limits of these methods. |
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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| Whether to use a spreadsheet program EXCEL (medium level). |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| The theoretical parts (presence of the Professor) and practices (exercises in computer room or at home) are roughly equivalent in time. Examples treated in the course are deliberately simplified to go to the essential. The personal works are more realistic or even real problems. |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| The course is given in modules, each covering a half day of 4 hours (1 credit = 3 half-days), over a period concentrated in time. Personal and practical works in the computer room (Arlon campus) or home are included in the schedule and planned credits. |
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Recommended or required readings :
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| Maystre, L.Y., Pictet, J., Simos, J. (1994). Méthodes multicritères ELECTRE : description, conseils pratiques et cas d'application à la gestion environnementale. Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes, 323 p.
La justice électorale. La Recherche N° 294 Avril 2002.
Both references are available at the library of ULG (Arlon). |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| The student must solve a problem on the example and using the methods imposed by the professor who provides competition actions and their value on each selected criteria. However, the student must weigh the criteria and choose the thresholds for upgrades in a consistent manner. The review is "open book" since each student solves the problem in EXCEL and thus comes to review with his laptop. At the end of the meeting, it sends its file saved under his name & first name by email to the professor. |
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Work placement(s) :
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| None. |
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Organizational remarks :
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| This course does not address the critical problem with the choice of the criteria and actions for competition, i.e. we leave behind the step of negotiations which should gather together all actors concerned by the handling decision problem. |
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Contacts :
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| Jean-Jacques Boreux
jj.boreux@ulg.ac.be |
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