Multi-actor VIKOR Method for Highway Selection in Montenegro

Abstract

Nowadays, decision-making systems in modern infrastructural planning greatly impact everyday life. This paper proposes a novel modification of the multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) method VIKOR that can be successfully applied to infrastructural decision-making systems. Our contributions are twofold. We first solve a highway section selection on the Montenegro A1 highway. Secondly, we modify the VIKOR method for the multi-actor (MA) setting. Although the original VIKOR method recognized multi-actor preferences through the selection of the value of the compromise parameter v, it did not explicitly include multiple actors in the decision-making process. Moreover, we show how the multi-actor (MA) VIKOR method can serve as a decision support system for making important infra-structural decision problems, improve the transparency of the decision-making process with the rising need to include citizens in the decision-making process, and how it successfully solves the distortion in social choice problem.

Sandro Radovanović

Assistant Professor at University of Belgrade

My research interests include machine learning, development and design of decision support systems, decision theory, and fairness and justice concepts in algorithmic decision making.