PMID- 38229593
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20240118
IS  - 2215-0161 (Print)
IS  - 2215-0161 (Electronic)
IS  - 2215-0161 (Linking)
VI  - 12
DP  - 2024 Jun
TI  - Multi-dichotomous sequencing method MDSM for ordering the importance of variants' 
      properties in multi-criteria decision-making.
PG  - 102538
LID - 10.1016/j.mex.2023.102538 [doi]
LID - 102538
AB  - There are plenty of Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) methods that help to 
      choose the most suitable solution assessed by several criteria (e.g. Saaty 1990; 
      Simos 1990; Pamucar et al. 2018). They are applied in cases where several scales 
      of different units describe the variants or the variants' properties are 
      represented by linguistic, non-numbered terms. The inherent part of the MCDM 
      algorithms is calculating the weights of the variants' properties, necessary for 
      ordering the variants. If - in a certain problem - there are several properties 
      to consider, sequencing their importance becomes a problem itself. The innovative 
      method of sequencing is proposed in the article based on dichotomous splitting of 
      the properties' importance. If made several times, it leads to the coherent - 
      internally and with the decision-maker's intention - order of the properties' 
      importance. Then the weights of the properties can be calculated with the use of 
      different MCDM methods. The description of the method can be shortened as 
      follows:*Divide the full set of features into two dichotomous subsets of lower 
      and higher importance*Continue dichotomous divisions until there are only the 
      subsets containing one element or subsets containing elements of equal 
      importance.
CI  - (c) 2023 The Author(s).
FAU - Anysz, Hubert
AU  - Anysz H
AD  - Warsaw University of Technolgy, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Al. Armii Ludowej 
      16, Warsaw 00-637, Poland.
FAU - Grucza, Bartosz
AU  - Grucza B
AD  - Warsaw School of Economics, Department of Infrastructure and Mobility Studies, 
      Al. Niepodleglosci 162, Warsaw 02-554, Poland.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20231226
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - MethodsX
JT  - MethodsX
JID - 101639829
PMC - PMC10790078
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Algorithms
OT  - MCDM
OT  - Multi-Dichotomous Sequencing Method MDSM
OT  - Multi-criteria decision-making
OT  - Ordering
OT  - Preference ordering
OT  - Sequencing
COIS- The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or 
      personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in 
      this paper.
EDAT- 2024/01/17 06:43
MHDA- 2024/01/17 06:44
PMCR- 2023/12/26
CRDT- 2024/01/17 03:44
PHST- 2023/10/15 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2023/12/25 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2024/01/17 06:44 [medline]
PHST- 2024/01/17 06:43 [pubmed]
PHST- 2024/01/17 03:44 [entrez]
PHST- 2023/12/26 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - S2215-0161(23)00534-4 [pii]
AID - 102538 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.mex.2023.102538 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - MethodsX. 2023 Dec 26;12:102538. doi: 10.1016/j.mex.2023.102538. eCollection 2024 
      Jun.