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Ambitious as the enterprise was, and as demanding as the planning effort promised to be, we set out to organize the IX International Conference on Multiple criteria Decision Making (MCDM) which took place in Fairfax, Virginia, on August 5-8, 1990. We knew it was ambitious because the number of participants expected to attend the conference would approach 160, larger than that of earlier conferences, and because it would include a sizable contingent of 39 participants from the soviet union and Eastern Europe, possibly the largest yet. In many ways, it may be appropriate to say, this international conference presented a microcosm of peoples and new ideas that reflected the extraordinary events that were to take place in Europe and other parts of the world during that summer of 1990. with the theme: "Multiple criteria Decision Making and support at the Interface of Industry, Business and Government" we wanted to focus on new analytical methodologies and management tools, quantitative and qualitative evaluation of decision techniques, the design of experiments to test existing and proposed methods, and the experience gained in the application of these MCDM methods and tools to real-world problems during the last 10-15 years. Many analytical, behavioral, and technological advances are to be made, we feel, at the interface of MCDM Theory, the Behavioral Sciences, operations Research, Systems Engineering, Decision Theory, Mathematical Sciences, and Information Technology. viii The current proliferation of computer-based decision tools offers new challenges and opportunities.

A Framework for Qualitative Experimental Evaluation of Multiple Criteria Decision Support Systems (MCDSS).- A Procedure for Selecting MCDM Techniques for Forest Resources Management.- The State of Multiple Criteria Decision Making: Past, Present, and Future.- An Interactive Integrated Multiobjective Optimization Approach for Quasiconcave/Quasiconvex Utility Functions.- The Analytic Hierarchy Process with Interval Judgments.- An Integrating Data Envelopment Analysis with Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis.- Interval Value Tradeoffs: Theory, Methods, Software, and Applications.- On Some Properties of Outranking Relations Based on a Concordance-Discordance Principle.- An Interactive Combined Branch-and-Bound/Tchebycheff Algorithm for Multiple Criteria Optimization.- Facts and Fictions About the Analytic Hierarchy Process.- Decision Support System for Management of Patient Nutrition: An Interactive AHP/Goal Programming Approach.- Sequential Decision Making and Restructurable Modelling.- Computer-Based Explanation of Multiattribute Decisions.- Supporting the Decision Maker to Find the Most Preferred Solution for a MOLP-Problem.- Multicriteria Problems with Designed Decision Alternatives.- Multiobjective Control of the Risk of Extreme Events in Dynamic Systems.- Hierarchical Multiobjective Programming: An Overview.- Multicriteria Decision Making for Selecting Freeway Interchange Locations in Taiwan.- Judgemental Modelling as a Research Tool in Industrial Marketing Decisions.- The French and the American School in Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis.- Multicriterion Aid to Make a Schedule of a Surgical Suite.- A Fuzzy/Stochastic Multiobjective Linear Programming Method.- Theoretical Remarks on Dynamic Trade-Off.- On Solving Multiobjective Linear Programs via Minimax Scalarizing Function.- Developing an Expert System Prototype for Intelligent Decision Support.- Weekly Operation of a Water Resource System with Reliability Criteria.- Presidential Elections, the Superconducting Supercollider, and Organ Transplant Decisions.- Processing Interval Judgments in the Analytic Hierarchy Process.- Weakly-Efficient Solutions of Limiting Multicriteria Optimization Problems.- Applicability of Ideal Points in Multicriteria Decision Making.- A Global Search for Multicriterial Problems.- Multiobjective Decision Making Under Uncertainty.- Multiobjective Investment Planning for Improving Quality of Life: A Case Study for Taipei City.- Three Basic Conceptions Underlying Multiple Criteria Interactive Procedures.- Widely-Ignored Subtleties That Are Critical to Decision-Making.- Modeling Preference Trade-Offs in Multiple Objective Linear Programming.- Competence Set Analysis and Effective Decision Support Systems.