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  <dc:title>Benchmarking for Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package mcdabench version 1.1.2</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Performs and benchmarks various Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) 
    methods. MCDA is a decision-making framework used to evaluate and rank 
    alternatives based on multiple conflicting criteria using normalization, 
    weighting, and aggregation techniques. The package implements a wide range 
    of MCDA methods including ARAS (Additive Ratio Assessment), AROMAN 
    (Alternative Ranking Order Method Accounting for two-step Normalization), 
    COCOSO (Combined Compromise Solution), CODAS (Combinative Distance-based 
    Assessment), COPRAS (Complex Proportional Assessment), EDAS (Evaluation 
    based on Distance from Average Solution), ELECTRE (Elimination and Choice 
    Expressing Reality) family (I-IV), FUCA (Faire Un Choix Adequat), GRA (Grey 
    Relational Analysis), MABAC (Multi-Attributive Border Approximation Area 
    Comparison), MAIRCA (Multi-Attributive Ideal-Real Comparative Analysis), 
    MARCOS (Measurement of Alternatives and Ranking according to Compromise 
    Solution), MAUT (Multi-Attribute Utility Theory), MAVT (Multi-Attribute 
    Value Theory), MEGAN (Multi-criteria Evaluation with Gradual-weighting and 
    Aggregation of Normalized distance matrices), MOORA (Multi-Objective 
    Optimization on the basis of Ratio Analysis), OCRA (Operational 
    Competitiveness Rating Analysis), ORESTE (Organisation, Rangement Et 
    Synthese De Donnees Relationnelles), PROMETHEE (Preference Ranking 
    Organization Method for Enrichment Evaluations I-VI), RAM (Root Assessment 
    Method), ROV (Range of Value), SMART (Simple Multi-Attribute Rating 
    Technique), TOPSIS (Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal 
    Solution), VIKOR (VlseKriterijumska Optimizacija I Kompromisno Resenje), 
    WASPAS (Weighted Aggregated Sum Product Assessment), WPM (Weighted Product 
    Model), and WSM (Weighted Sum Model). The package computes comparative 
    evaluation measures including Spearman rank correlation (Spearman, 1904)
    &lt;doi:10.2307/1412107&gt;, Salabun-Urbaniak's weight similarity index (Salabun 
    and Urbaniak, 2020)&lt;doi:10.1007/978-3-030-50417-5_47&gt;, Wilcoxon signed-rank 
    test (Wilcoxon, 1945)&lt;doi:10.2307/3001968&gt;, and permutation- and bootstrap-
    based entropy difference tests for pairwise method comparisons using 
    Jensen-Shannon divergence (Lin, 1991)&lt;doi:10.1109/18.61115&gt;. It also provides 
    sensitivity and stability analysis of MCDA results. Weight sensitivity 
    analysis is implemented through deterministic and stochastic perturbation 
    of criterion weights, and is also integrated as a built-in step within the 
    MEGAN method framework (Cebeci, 2026)&lt;doi:10.7717/peerj-cs.3819&gt;.</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Depends: R (&gt;= 4.5.0)</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Imports: factoextra, ggplot2, gplots, igraph, monochromeR, networkD3</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Cagatay Cebeci &lt;cebecicagatay@gmail.com&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Cagatay Cebeci [aut, cre]</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>GPL (&gt;= 2)</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2026-06-04</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=mcdabench</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.mcdabench</dc:identifier>
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