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Multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) has been one of the fastest-growing
areas of operations research during the last decades. The academic attention
devoted to MCDA motivated the development of a great variety of approaches
and methods within the field. These methods distinguish themselves
in terms of procedures, theoretical assumptions and type of decision
addressed. This diversity poses challenges to the process of selecting the
most suited method for a specific real-world decision problem. In this paper
we present a case study in a real-world decision problem arising in the
painting sector of an automobile plant. We tackle the problem by resorting to
the well-known AHP method and to the MCDA method proposed by Pereira
and Fontes (2012) (MMASSI). By relying on two, rather than one, MCDA
methods we expect to improve the confidence and robustness of the obtained
results. The contributions of this paper are twofold: first, we intend to investigate
the contrasts and similarities of the results obtained by distinct MCDA
approaches (AHP and MMASSI); secondly, we expect to enrich the literature
of the field with a real-world MCDA case study on a complex decision
making problem since there is a paucity of applied research work addressing
real decision problems faced by organizations.
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AHP Decision making Multicriteria decision analysis Multicriteria methodology Automobile industry