Towards providing decision support for COTS selection

Multi-person Decision Model for Unfinished Construction Project

“…Game theory [22] techniques for coalition formation have been applied. Works in game theory describe which coalition will form in n-person games under different setting and how the players will distribute the benefits of the cooperation among themselves [41].…”

“…In every coalition [22] and [40] note that there is empty coalition that is a coalition made up of no members (the null set φ) and a grand coalition N consisting of all the players. The benefit of a coalition can be quantified through the use of characteristic function.…”

“…Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) [21] is for decision process. The AHP can be used successfully with a group [22] and negotiation [23]. A Coalition-based Game Theory [24] is for multiperson process.…”

“…Cooperation is the nature in team work on operation and construction management [27], [37] and [38]. A coalition [22] is any subset C⊂N, or numbered collection of players in which there are n > 1 player numbered 1, 2... n and set of all the players N = {1, 2, …, n}. Coalition is formed by making binding agreements in order to benefit every member of the coalition so that all members might receive more than they could individually on their own.…”

Interactive Decision Support for Multiobjective COTS Selection

“…are involved more often than not, authors propose the use of multicriteria decision-making techniques (cf. [4], [7], [9], [10], [11] and others) and typically recommend either the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) or the Weighted Scoring Method (WSM) to achieve this end. However, both methods come with serious drawbacks such as the combinatorial explosion of the number of pair-wise comparisons necessary when applying the AHP, the need of extensive a priori preference information such as weights for the WSM, or the highly problematic assumption of linear utility functions in both cases.…”