A Practical guide to Multi - Criteria Decision Analysis

This workbook has been set up to provide you with the fundamental concepts of the MCDA approach and the V•I•S•A software package. The structure of this workbook is to provide you with a brief introduction to the theory, followed by a few focusing questions that will help guide your thinking. Several small examples will be used to illustrate the concepts, and a medium-sized example is presented for you both during and at the end of this Workbook. This latter example will take you through all the V•I•S•A model creation and analysis steps in turn. The aim of the workbook is to provide you with the capability and means to create your own V•I•S•A model, and therefore your own assessment of a decision problem.