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In the twenty-first century the sustainability of energy and transportation systems is on the top of the political agenda in many countries around the world.Environmental impacts of human economic activity necessitate the consideration of conflicting goals in decision making processes to develop sustainable systems. Any sustainable development has to reconcile conflicting economic and environmental objectives and criteria. The science of multiple criteria decision making has a lot to offer in addressing this need. Decision making with multiple (conflicting) criteria is the topic of research that is at the heart of the International Society of Multiple Criteria Decision Making. This book is based on selected papers presented at the societies 19th International Conference, held at The University of Auckland, New Zealand, from 7th to 12th January 2008 under the theme "MCDM for Sustainable Energy and Transportation Systems''.

Multiple Criteria Decision Making, Transportation Energy Systems, and the Environment
On the Potential of Multi-objective Optimization in the Design of Sustainable Energy System	p. 3
Evaluation of the Significant Renewable Energy Resources in India Using Analytical Hierarchy Process	p. 13
Multiple Criteria Decision Support for Heating Systems in Electric Transport	p. 27
Multi Criteria Decision Support for Conceptual Integral Design of Flex(eble)(en)ergy Infrastructure	p. 35
A Multi Criteria Knapsack Solution to Optimise Natural Resource Management Project Selection	p. 47
Environmental and Cost Synergy in Supply Chain Network Integration in Mergers and Acquisitions	p. 57
The Analytic Hierarchy Process in the Transportation Sector	p. 79
Recife: A Mcdss for Railway Capacity Evaluation	p. 93
Balancing Efficiency and Robustness-A Bi-criteria Optimization Approach to Railway Track Allocation	p. 105
Tolling Analysis with Bi-objective Traffic Assignment	p. 117
Applications of Multiple Criteria Decison Making in Other Areas
National Risk Assessment in The Netherlands	p. 133
Evaluation of Green Suppliers Considering Decision Criteria Dependencies	p. 145
A Multiobjective Bilevel Program for Production-Distribution Planning in a Supply Chain	p. 155
An Ordinal Regression Method for Multicriteria Analysis of Customer Satisfaction	p. 167
Discrete Time-Cost Tradeoff with a Novel Hybrid Meta-Heuristic	p. 177
Goal Programming Models and DSS for Manpower Planning of Airport Baggage Service	p. 189
A MCDM Tool to Evaluate Government Websites in a Fuzzy Environment	p. 201
Investigating Coverage and Connectivity Trade-offs in Wireless Sensor Networks: The Benefits of MOEAs	p. 211
AHP as an Early Warning System: An Application in Commercial Banks in Turkey	p. 223
A Multi-Criteria Evaluation of Factors Affecting Internet Banking in Turkey	p. 235
Theory and Methodology of Multiple Criteria Decision Making
Priority Elicitation in the AHP by a Pareto Envelope-Based Selection Algorithm	p. 249
Bibliometric Analysis of Multiple Criteria Decision Making/Multiattribute Utility Theory	p. 259
Ordinal Qualitative Scales	p. 269
Multi-objective Model Predictive Control	p. 277
Multiple Criteria Nonlinear Programming Classification with the Non-additive Measure	p. 289
Multiple Objective Optimization
A Reduced-Cost SMS-EMOA Using Kriging, Self-Adaptation, and Parallelization	p. 301
Faster Hypervolume-Based Search Using Monte Carlo Sampling	p. 313
Using a Gradient Based Method to Seed an EMO Algorithm	p. 327
Nadir Point Estimation Using Evolutionary Approaches: Better Accuracy and Computational Speed Through Focused Search	p. 339
A Branch and Bound Algorithm for Choquet Optimization in Multicriteria Problems	p. 355
Decision Space Diversity Can Be Essential for Solving Multiobjective Real-World Problems	p. 367
Computing and Selecting ϵ-Efficient Solutions of {0,1}-Knapsack Problems	p. 379
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