Evolution Toward a New State of Multi-criteria Decision Making -- The Seven Pillars of the Analytic Hierarchy Process -- Learning Aspects of Decision Aids -- Information Overload: A Decision Making Perspective -- What is the Relative Importance of Criteria and how to Use it in MCDM -- Decision-Maker Centred MCDM: Some Empirical Tests and their Implications -- Comparing Numerical and Verbal Decision Analysis Using an Arctic Resource Management Problem -- On Testing Performance of a Negotiation Procedure in Distributed Environment -- An Artificial Neural Network Approach to Multicriteria Model Selection -- A New Technique to Compare Algorithms for Bi-criteria Combinatorial Optimization Problems -- Multi-attribute Sorting of Qualitative Objects in Multiset Spaces -- Classification of Nondominated Solutions in Multiple Objective Linear Integer Programming Problems -- Competence Set Analysis: An Effective Means to Solve Non-trivial Decision Problems -- Distributed Database Design Using Multiple Criteria: A New Method -- PRIME Decisions: An Interactive Tool for Value Tree Analysis -- Using Intervals for Global Sensitivity Analyses in Multiattribute Value Trees -- Characterization of the Benson Proper Efficiency and Scalarization in Nonconvex Vector Optimization -- Problems in Scalarizing Multicriteria Approaches -- Decision Analysis of the Interval-Valued Multiobjective Linear Programming Problems -- Computing Nadir Values in Three Objectives -- Multiple Objective Genetic Local Search Algorithm -- Bounds and Bound Sets for Biobjective Combinatorial Optimization Problems -- Quick Evaluation of the Efficient Solution Set for the Biobjective Knapsack Problem -- An Interactive Genetic Algorithm Applied to the Multiobjective Knapsack Problem 265 -- Evolutionary Algorithms for Multicriteria Optimization of Program Module Allocations -- Treating Ordinal Criteria in Stochastic Weight Space Analysis -- Modification of the Nominal Group Technique by Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process -- The Priorities Aggregation Approach in Unequal Power Group Decision Making -- Solving a Co-operative Two-person Game under Uncertainty Using Multiple Criteria Optimization -- A Multi-criteria Model for Warehouse Layout Design -- Multi-objective Optimization of Lot Size Balancing for Multi-products Selective Disassembly -- An Internet System to Apply the Balanced Scorecard Concept to Supply Chain Management -- Prioritizing Clean-up of Contaminated Lightstation Sites -- Environmental Application of the Feasible Goals Method: Screening of Water Quality Improvement Strategies -- Choosing a Reparation Method for a Landfill by Using the SMAA-O Multicriteria Method -- Personnel Selection Using a Fuzzy MCDM Approach Based on Ideal and Anti-ideal Solutions -- A Decision Model, via Integer Goal Programming, for Hiring and Promoting Staff in the Departments of a University -- Multiple Attribute Probabilistic Assessment of the Performance of Some Airlines -- Data Mining in Credit Card Portfolio Management: A Multiple Criteria Decision Making Approach -- Issues in the Development of a Multi-objective GA to Optimise Traffic Signal Controller Parameters -- From a Data Base to a Reference for Workplace Accident Prevention -- A Multi-criteria Approach for Power Generation Expansion Planning -- Integrated Approaches for Determining the Turkish Naval Force Structure by Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process and Goal Programming Methods -- List of Reviewers -- Author Index.