TY - GEN AU - ABDULLA, MOHAMMED SHAHID TI - Multi criteria decision making with overlapping criteria PY - 2012/// KW - EXCECUTIVE MANAGEMENT N2 - The evidential reasoning algorithm for multi criteria decision making (MCDM) performs aggregation of the assessments of multiple experts, one each for every attribute of a givn system. Two variants of ER are proposed, that handle a scenario wheremore than one expert assesses an attribute. The first algorithm handles the case of multiple experts who assess an attribute of a larger system. Experiments compare a modification of ER for this scenario which results in poorer detection. The second algorithm is used when experts have overlapping areas of expertise among the subsystems. A comparision is made with a variant of ER in the literature. Both algorithms are examples of novel ' exclusive and 'inclusive' ER ER -