MULTIPLE PARTICIPANT-MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION-MAKING

Meaningful connections among different types of decision making situat ions are established in order to improve the development of useful dec ision technologies for application to real world problems. More specif ically, an assertion is put forward that suggests that single particip ant-multiple criteria (SPMC) and multiple participant-single criterion (MPSC) decision making problems may be treated in essentially the sam e way. In this way, decision technologies that are already available c an be suitably refined for use in studying both SPMC and MPSC decision situations. Another assertion is made that a multiple participant-mul tiple criteria (MPMC) decision situation can be converted to a MPSC de cision situation. In order to simpilfy the explanation, illustrative a pplications are utilized throughout the paper. Finally, worthwhile dir ections for future research are summarized in the last section.