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(2014), "2013 Awards for Excellence", Journal of Modelling in Management, Vol. 9 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/JM2-03-2014-001
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
2013 Awards for Excellence
Article Type: 2013 Awards for Excellence From: Journal of Modelling in Management, Volume 9, Issue 1
The following article was selected for this year’s Outstanding Paper Award for Journal of Modelling in Management
"Enriching descriptive information in ranking and sorting problems with visualizations techniques"
Philippe Nemery
Department of Mathematics, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK
Alessio Ishizaka
Portsmouth Business School, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK
Mauricio Camargo and Laure Morel
Laboratory ERPI, University of Lorraine, Nancy, France
Purpose – Most of the proposed decision aid methods provide the user only with a prescriptive approach (quantitative analysis) without any descriptive approach (qualitative analysis). It is therefore not possible to justify and recommend ways of improvement. The purpose of this paper is to introduce visualization techniques to complement prescriptive approaches.
Design/methodology/approach – Visual techniques have been developed for the FlowSort sorting method, namely the FS-GAIA and stacked bar diagrams.
Findings – It is found that with visual techniques, fine details can be captured, e.g. detection of incomparability (with FS-GAIA) and the composition of a score (with stacked bar diagrams).
Research limitations/implications – In the future, it is expected that other multi-criteria decision methods will be complemented by prescriptive approaches.
Practical implications – A real case study is introduced in order to illustrate the practicality of the visual techniques. In this paper, the innovation performances of small and medium enterprises from the French Lorraine region are assessed.
Social implications – It is expected that the quality of the decisions taken is improved because of being better informed.
Originality/value – The paper, using a real case study, provides important new tools to enhance decision quality.
Keywords: Classification, Decision making, FlowSort, France, Graphical analysis for interactive assistance, Information, Multicriteria decision aid, Preference ranking organisation method for enrichment evaluations, Small- to medium-sized enterprises, Sorting, Visualisation
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/JM2-03-2014-001
This article originally appeared in Volume 7 Number 2, 2012, Journal of Modelling in Management
The following articles were selected for this year’s Highly Commended Award
“Confidence and supply chain disruptions: insights into managerial decision-making from the perspective of policy
Harri Lorentz and Olli-Pekka Hilmola
This article originally appeared in Volume 7 Number 3, 2012, Journal of Modelling in Management
“A simulation study of a new rate-and-queue-based active queue management algorithm
Ali Asghar Jomah Adham and Razman Mat Tahar
This article originally appeared in Volume 7 Number 3, 2012, Journal of Modelling in Management