PMID- 27806061
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20170626
LR  - 20181113
IS  - 1932-6203 (Electronic)
IS  - 1932-6203 (Linking)
VI  - 11
IP  - 11
DP  - 2016
TI  - Experimental Evaluation of Suitability of Selected Multi-Criteria Decision-Making 
      Methods for Large-Scale Agent-Based Simulations.
PG  - e0165171
LID - 10.1371/journal.pone.0165171 [doi]
LID - e0165171
AB  - Multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) can be formally implemented by various 
      methods. This study compares suitability of four selected MCDM methods, namely 
      WPM, TOPSIS, VIKOR, and PROMETHEE, for future applications in agent-based 
      computational economic (ACE) models of larger scale (i.e., over 10 000 agents in 
      one geographical region). These four MCDM methods were selected according to 
      their appropriateness for computational processing in ACE applications. Tests of 
      the selected methods were conducted on four hardware configurations. For each 
      method, 100 tests were performed, which represented one testing iteration. With 
      four testing iterations conducted on each hardware setting and separated testing 
      of all configurations with the-server parameter de/activated, altogether, 12800 
      data points were collected and consequently analyzed. An illustrational 
      decision-making scenario was used which allows the mutual comparison of all of 
      the selected decision making methods. Our test results suggest that although all 
      methods are convenient and can be used in practice, the VIKOR method accomplished 
      the tests with the best results and thus can be recommended as the most suitable 
      for simulations of large-scale agent-based models.
FAU - Tucnik, Petr
AU  - Tucnik P
AD  - Faculty of Informatics and Management, University of Hradec Kralove, Rokitanskeho 
      62, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic.
FAU - Bures, Vladimir
AU  - Bures V
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-7788-7445
AD  - Faculty of Informatics and Management, University of Hradec Kralove, Rokitanskeho 
      62, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20161102
PL  - United States
TA  - PLoS One
JT  - PloS one
JID - 101285081
SB  - IM
MH  - *Decision Making
MH  - Decision Support Techniques
MH  - Humans
MH  - Models, Economic
PMC - PMC5091817
COIS- The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
EDAT- 2016/11/03 06:00
MHDA- 2017/06/27 06:00
PMCR- 2016/11/02
CRDT- 2016/11/03 06:00
PHST- 2016/02/22 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2016/10/08 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2016/11/03 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2017/06/27 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2016/11/03 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2016/11/02 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - PONE-D-16-07555 [pii]
AID - 10.1371/journal.pone.0165171 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - PLoS One. 2016 Nov 2;11(11):e0165171. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0165171. 
      eCollection 2016.