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A method of multicriteria evaluation and optimization of hierarchical systems

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It is shown that any multicriterion problem can be represented by a hierarchical system. Individual properties of the object are evaluated at the lower level of the system, using a criterion vector; and a composition mechanism is used to evaluate the object as a whole at the upper level. The paper proposes a method to solve complex multicriterion problems of evaluation and optimization. It is based on nested scalar convolutions of vector-valued criteria and allows simple structural and parametrical synthesis of multicriterion hierarchical systems.

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Translated from Kibernetika i Sistemnyi Analiz, No. 3, pp. 84–92, May–June 2007.

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Voronin, A.N. A method of multicriteria evaluation and optimization of hierarchical systems. Cybern Syst Anal 43, 384–390 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10559-007-0060-8

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