Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gilles Dejaegere Author-X-Name-First: Gilles Author-X-Name-Last: Dejaegere Author-Name: Yves De Smet Author-X-Name-First: Yves De Author-X-Name-Last: Smet Title: A new threshold for the detection of possible rank reversal occurrences in PROMETHEE II rankings Abstract: Multicriteria decision aid consists in helping decision-makers to compare (rank, choose, sort, etc.) different alternatives which are evaluated on conflicting criteria. A well-known family of decision aid methods is the PROMETHEE family. It has been highlighted that these methods may suffer from rank reversal occurrences. However, Mareschal et al. and later Verly and De Smet have pointed out that rank reversal could only occur between alternatives having similar flow scores. In this work, a stricter threshold on the difference of net flow scores is proposed. It is shown using real datasets that the new threshold significantly reduces the pairs of alternatives subject to rank reversal. A comparison of the different thresholds according to the information on which they are based is also given. These new insights suggest carefully reconsidering the definition of the indifference and the incomparability relation in the context of PROMETHEE methods. Journal: Int. J. of Multicriteria Decision Making Pages: 1-16 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Keywords: multicriteria; decision aid; PROMETHEE; rank reversal; threshold; parameters; net flow score; indifference; incomparability. File-URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=124720 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:ids:ijmcdm:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:1-16 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Georgios P. Trachanas Author-X-Name-First: Georgios P. Author-X-Name-Last: Trachanas Author-Name: Nikos Mantzaris Author-X-Name-First: Nikos Author-X-Name-Last: Mantzaris Author-Name: Vangelis Marinakis Author-X-Name-First: Vangelis Author-X-Name-Last: Marinakis Author-Name: Haris Doukas Author-X-Name-First: Haris Author-X-Name-Last: Doukas Title: Multicriteria evaluation of power generation alternatives towards lignite phase-out: the case of Ptolemaida V Abstract: Replacing existing lignite power plants with cleaner infrastructure serves as a complicated problem in the presence of economic, environmental, and societal crucial factors. In the present paper, we explore replacement options for the case of Ptolemaida V lignite power plant, Greece, which is planned to stop its operation by 2028 at the latest. In this context, we analyse four replacement technology alternatives: CO<SUB align="right"><SMALL>2</SMALL></SUB> capture and storage, biomass, combined cycle gas turbine with fossil gas, and thermal energy storage coupled with renewable energy. Evaluation is based on an extended version of the VIKOR method, incorporating simultaneously uncertain data and incomplete criteria weights. Numerical results show a narrow advantage of thermal energy storage in most scenarios, while CO<SUB align="right"><SMALL>2</SMALL></SUB> capture and storage, and lignite-biomass cooperation constitute rather inadequate solutions. Finally, we formulate a regret-oriented VIKOR-based decision support framework to cope with similar problems under the presence of scenario uncertainty. Journal: Int. J. of Multicriteria Decision Making Pages: 17-42 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Keywords: lignite phase-out; power generation planning; multicriteria decision making; MCDM; VIKOR; incomplete weights. File-URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=124746 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:ids:ijmcdm:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:17-42 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Francesca Abastante Author-X-Name-First: Francesca Author-X-Name-Last: Abastante Author-Name: Salvatore Corrente Author-X-Name-First: Salvatore Author-X-Name-Last: Corrente Author-Name: Salvatore Greco Author-X-Name-First: Salvatore Author-X-Name-Last: Greco Author-Name: Isabella M. Lami Author-X-Name-First: Isabella M. Author-X-Name-Last: Lami Title: A multicriteria decision support approach for evaluating highly complex adaptive reuse plans Abstract: How to handle an environmental/urban decision problem with many alternatives and the presence of several interdependent criteria? Starting from the 'Futur-e Project' of the main Italian distributor of electricity, the paper proposes an integrated MCDA approach illustrated by the comparison of alternative projects for the reuse of a large abandoned thermoelectric power plant in Italy. We focus on the following aspects: 1) evaluation of the feasible plan performances with respect to criteria; 2) construction of a reliable decision support model requiring the decision-maker parsimonious preference information. We adopted an assessment framework based on the Choquet integral to represent interaction between criteria, parsimonious AHP reducing the number of pairwise comparisons, and SMAA permitting to explore the space of different recommendations supplied by the decision model in case of perturbation of its parameters. We report on the evolution of the procedure and on the aspects of the support provided by the adopted approach. Journal: Int. J. of Multicriteria Decision Making Pages: 43-69 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Keywords: adaptive reuse; analytic hierarchy process; AHP; Choquet integral; stochastic multicriteria acceptability analysis; SMAA; remediation of contaminated sites; multiple criteria decision aiding; MCDA; interacting criteria. File-URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=124769 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Open Access Handle: RePEc:ids:ijmcdm:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:43-69 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Om Prakash Mishra Author-X-Name-First: Om Prakash Author-X-Name-Last: Mishra Author-Name: Prashant Mishra Author-X-Name-First: Prashant Author-X-Name-Last: Mishra Title: AHP-based prioritising of cost challenges of supply chain due to COVID-19 Abstract: The outbreak of COVID-19 made the world act differently in business. Preventive steps taken by governments to shut down the road, rail, air and water transportation disrupted supply chains of most of the businesses. Whereas supply chains of essentials like food and pharmaceutical kept working in stressed environment. This paper is highlighting the cost of supply chain due to the outbreak of COVID-19 as a pandemic. The main stakeholders of a supply chain such as supplier, manufacturer, distributor, retailer and customer were tweaked to protect people from infection. New norms such as sanitisation, social distancing, use of personal protective gears increased the lead time and escalated the cost of supply chain management significantly. AHP has been used to model the cost of supply chain management citing a case study of three key industries. It has been seen that the restricted human movement remained pivotal in sky rocketing cost of supply chain. Journal: Int. J. of Multicriteria Decision Making Pages: 70-86 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Keywords: supply chain; COVID-19; cost; analytical hierarchy process; AHP; pandemic. File-URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=124778 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:ids:ijmcdm:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:70-86