As its title implies, Advances in Multicriteria Analysis presents the most recent developments in multicriteria analysis and in some of its principal areas of application, including marketing, research and development evaluation, financial planning, and medicine.

A Short Note on a Methodology for Choosing a Decision-Aid Method.- A Note on the “Min in Favor” Choice Procedure for Fuzzy Preference Relations.- Eliciting Information Concerning the Relative Importance of Criteria.- Unstructured Problems and Development of Prescriptive Decision Making Methods.- Multicriteria Analysis in Problem Solving and Structural Complexity.- General Overview of the Macbeth Approach.- Building Additive Utilities in the Presence of Non-Monotonic Preferences.- The Ideal-Degradation Procedure: Searching for Vector Equilibria.- The Light Beam Search — Outranking Based Interactive Procedure for Multiple-Objective Mathematical Programming.- Aspiration Level Approach to Interactive Multi-Objective Programming and Its Applications.- When Is a Stackelberg Equilibrium Pareto Optimum?.- Preference Disaggregation Analysis in Agricultural Product Consumer Behaviour.- An Application of the UTA Discriminant Model for the Evaluation of R & D Projects.- Searching for a Financial Plan: A MOLP Multiple Reference Point Approach.- Scheduling Surgeries for Patients Requiring Post-Operative Intensive Care: A Multiple Objective Integer Programming Approach.- Author Index.