Soft Computing for Complex Multiple Criteria Decision Making

"Daprima importa sappere di che cosa si tratta." ("The first thing is to know what the talk is about".) Attributed to Vilfredo Pareto. This book results from my continuous and deep interest in multiple criteria decision making (MCDM). Eleven years ago I wrote in my p- vious monograph: "This work results from my interest in the field of vector optimization. I stumbled first upon this subject in 1982 [ ... ]. I was attracted then by a gap between vector optimization used to serve as a formal ...