Operationalising and incorporating ethical considerations into a tool for multi-criteria decision making

Q4 Business, Management and Accounting

International Journal of Multicriteria Decision Making Pub Date : 2016-01-01 DOI:10.1504/IJMCDM.2016.081381

Elisabeth Ekener, Aron Larsson, G. Finnveden, P. Sandin

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In this study, an existing method for ethical analysis was extended by adding aspects of human rights and global distributional issues as framed by the United Nations (UN) Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). A procedure for incorporating these issues together with environmental, safety and cost considerations into a decision making framework using multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) was devised. This includes a scoring system to convert qualitative ethical issues into semi-quantitative issues. The refined framework tool was tested in an illustrative case on the destruction of ammunition. The results showed that the extended framework for ethical analysis added value, for example as a way of highlighting ethical considerations in decision making. Use of the DecideIT software with its integrated MCDA improved the analysis by allowing for uncertain and imprecise values and estimations. The illustrative case results indicated that a combined alternative including recycling of metals and energetic materials had clear advantages over open detonation.

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将道德考虑纳入多准则决策的工具中

在本研究中，通过在联合国(UN)《世界人权宣言》(UDHR)和联合国千年发展目标(MDGs)框架下增加人权方面和全球分配问题，扩展了现有的伦理分析方法。设计了一个程序，利用多标准决策分析(MCDA)将这些问题连同环境、安全和成本考虑纳入决策框架。这包括一个将定性伦理问题转化为半定量问题的评分系统。在销毁弹药的实例中对改进的框架工具进行了测试。结果表明，扩展的伦理分析框架增加了价值，例如作为在决策中突出伦理考虑的一种方式。通过允许不确定和不精确的值和估计，使用集成MCDA的decisiit软件改进了分析。实例结果表明，包括金属回收和含能材料的组合替代方案比开式爆轰具有明显的优势。

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International Journal of Multicriteria Decision Making Business, Management and Accounting-Strategy and Management

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期刊介绍： IJMCDM is a scholarly journal that publishes high quality research contributing to the theory and practice of decision making in ill-structured problems involving multiple criteria, goals and objectives. The journal publishes papers concerning all aspects of multicriteria decision making (MCDM), including theoretical studies, empirical investigations, comparisons and real-world applications. Papers exploring the connections with other disciplines in operations research and management science are particularly welcome. Topics covered include: -Artificial intelligence, evolutionary computation, soft computing in MCDM -Conjoint/performance measurement -Decision making under uncertainty -Disaggregation analysis, preference learning/elicitation -Group decision making, multicriteria games -Multi-attribute utility/value theory -Multi-criteria decision support systems and knowledge-based systems -Multi-objective mathematical programming -Outranking relations theory -Preference modelling -Problem structuring with multiple criteria -Risk analysis/modelling, sensitivity/robustness analysis -Social choice models -Theoretical foundations of MCDM, rough set theory -Innovative applied research in relevant fields