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Multi-criteria Decision AnalysisMulti-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA), or Multi Criteria Decision Making, is a procedure aimed at supporting decision maker(s) whose problem involves numerous and conflicting evaluations. MCDA aims at highlighting these conflicts and deriving a way to come to a compromise in a transparent process. For example, European Parliament may apply MCDA to arrive on a number of conclusions on whether introducing software patents in Europe would help or destroy European software industry. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patent#In_Europe. Since MCDA involves a certain element of subjectiveness, morals and ethics of the researcher implementing MCDA plays a significant part on accuracy and fairness of MCDA's conclusion. The ethical point is very important when one is making a decision that seriously impact on other people as opposed to a personal decision. Some of the MCDA models are:- Which model is most appropriate depends on the problem at hand and may be to some extent which model decision maker is most comfortable with. External links
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