Using an Outranking Method Supporting the Acquisition of Military Equipment

We overview the desirable features of a ranking and a selection methodology, taking several criteria into account. We show to what extent the class of PROMETHEE methods is presenting these features. We summarize the recommendations which were formulated a few years ago, in order to adapt these metho...

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Main Author: Pastijn, Hugo
Format: Report
Language:English
Subjects:
ACQUISITION
BELGIUM
DETERMINATION
FOREIGN REPORTS
Logistics, Military Facilities and Supplies
MILITARY EQUIPMENT
NATO
NATO FURNISHED
SELECTION
TRANSFORMATIONS
WEIGHT
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Summary:We overview the desirable features of a ranking and a selection methodology, taking several criteria into account. We show to what extent the class of PROMETHEE methods is presenting these features. We summarize the recommendations which were formulated a few years ago, in order to adapt these methods to their use for military equipment acquisition. These adaptations are primarily related to the choice of the criteria hierarchy, the determination of weights, the transformation and rescaling functions, the indifference and preference thresholds and some other technical parameters. Then we discuss the capabilities of the PROMETHEE methods to perform stability analysis of the ranking with respect to the weights and its relevance for the acquisition process of military equipment. See also ADA562565. RTO-MP-SAS-080 Decision Support Methodologies for Acquisition of Military Equipment (Methodologies d'aide a la decision pour l'acquisition d' equipements militaires). Meeting Proceedings of Systems Analysis and Studies Panel (SAS) Specialists Meeting held in Brussels, Belgium on 22 and 23 October 2009., The original document contains color images.