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SMART-WEIGHT

SMART-WEIGHT (SMART Weighting — Direct importance rating normalisation (Edwards SMART weight step)) is a weight subjective multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) method introduced by Edwards, W., Barron, F. H. in 1994. It turns a decision matrix of alternatives scored on multiple criteria into a structured, reproducible result.

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SMART Weighting — Direct importance rating normalisation (Edwards SMART weight step)
Taxonomic method record · mcdm / decision-making
  • Edwards, W., Barron, F. H. (1994). SMARTS and SMARTER: Improved simple methods for multiattribute utility measurement. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes · DOI 10.1006/obhd.1994.1087
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