Department of Business Administration

Introduction to Multi-Criteria Decision Making(G362)

Course Code Course Name Semester Theory Practice Lab Credit ECTS
G362 Introduction to Multi-Criteria Decision Making 6 3 0 0 3 5
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Language of Instruction Turkish
Course Type Elective
Course Level Bachelor Degree
Course Instructor(s) Tuncay GÜRBÜZ tuncaygurbuz09@gmail.com (Email)
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Objective The purpose of this course is to give an introduction to the concept of Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM). Students will have information on the basic methods that structured the starting point of the domain as well as majorly used methods in the literature whilst examining their various application fields.
Content Week 1. MCDM – A General Overview,
Basic Definitions,
Normalization
Week 2. Classification of MCDM Methods,
Quantitative/Qualitative Data,
Attribute Generation and Weighting
Week 3. Attribute Weighting
Quantification of Qualitative Data
Week 4. Non Compensatory MCDM Methods
Week 5. Non Compensatory MCDM Methods,
Scoring Methods SAW, WSM, WPM
Week 6. QUIZZ
Week 7. Some well known MCDM Methods – AHP, ANP
Week 8. Some well known MCDM Methods –
TOPSIS, ELECTRE, OCRA
Week 9. MIDTERM
Week 10. Some well known MCDM Methods –
TOPSIS, ELECTRE, OCRA
Group Decision Making
Week 11. Group Decision Making
Social Choice Functions
Week 12. MCDM Applications
Week 13. Project Presentations
Week 14. Project Presentations
Course Learning Outcomes At the end of the course, the student will be able to,
1. Develop a comprehension of qualitative and quantitative data and be able to simultaneously handle them in order to achieve a final decision.
2. Apply the MCDM concept for various decision processes.
3. See different application fields in order to better understand the subject and be able to discover new application fields.
Teaching and Learning Methods Subject explanation, numerical examples et case studies.
References K. Paul YOON, Ching-Lai HWANG, Multiple Attribute Decision Making – An Introduction, Sage Publications, California, USA, 1995.

Ching-Lai HWANG, Ming-Jeng Lin, Group Decision Making under Multiple Criteria, Springer Verlag, New York, USA, 1987.

Thomas L. Saaty, Müjgan S. Özdemir, A Dictionary of Decisions with Dependence and Feedback Based on the Analytic Network Process, RWS Publications, Pittsburgh, USA, 2005.

Bahadır YILDIRIM, Emrah Önder (Editörler), İşletmeciler, Mühendisler ve Yöneticiler için Operasyonel, Yönetsel ve Stratejik Problemlerin Çözümünde Çok Kriterli Karar Verme Yöntemleri, 2. Baskı,DORA Basım Yayın, Bursa, Türkiye, 2015.
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