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Separation and Normalization in Multi-Attribute Decision Models for Investment Evaluation

“…It is surmised that the purpose of forming the two subsets is to be able to study linear combinations The procedure delineated. in [1], [3], [5], [7] wE=S.…”

“…In I:5J and [7] the authors start with attribute measurement scales which differ between some of the attributes, however, in 1' 3] a common initial scale is chosen. In all of these models the location values are normalized over the alternatives for each attribute before applying the additive decision model calculations.…”

“…Several publications in which multi-attribute decision analysis has been applied to investment decisions have suggested a strategy of separating the attribute set into two subsets [2],[31, [5]. [7]. Following the ~otation in [3], one set contains the objective measures and the other the subjective measures.…”

“…The strategy originated as an evaluation procedure for facility site selection by Brown and Gibson [1], and was applied to investment decisions in [5] and [7]. Recently, in [3] the procedure was suggested to be a multi-attribute decision theory approach.…”