To my knowledge, some tools such as Visual Promethee, Decision lab and D-Sight are used by enterprise and researchers to implement the aforementioned outranking MCDA method (Promethee2) and visualize results via GIAI. Are they other free tools that support this purpose? And what is from among those tools the simple and best one?
Energy planning refers to providing sufficient power to human societies while at the same time underlies resource, economic environmental, social and technological constraints. The complexity of the task renders Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) techniques a useful tool in the decision process. MCDA techniques offer a transparent way of elaborating on decision problems which include many criteria and different Decision-Makers (DMs). This paper presents a multi-criteria decision analysis methodology and software for renewable energy applications. The software, (MCDA-RES) provides for a step-decomposition of the decision-making process:
Problem Identification & Initial Data Collection, Identification of Stakeholders,
Creation of Alternatives, Establishment of Criteria, Criteria Evaluation & Preference
Elicitation, Selection of the MCDA Technique, Model Application, and Stakeholders’
Analysis of the Results & Feedback. The applicability is illustrated through a real case-study for an island in Greece where the performance of alternatives on a set of different criteria and the preference of the DMs is assessed. The analysis showed that no group consensus could be directly established; still some alternatives performed better than others and a way towards a compromise solution could be revealed.
For academic use, you may download Visual PROMETHEE for free. http://www.promethee-gaia.net
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