Includes bibliographical references and index.

Decision making in system project, planning, operation, and control : motivation, objective, and basic concepts -- Notions and concepts of fuzzy sets : an introduction -- Selected design and processing aspects of fuzzy sets -- Continuous models of multicriteria decision making and their analysis -- Introduction to preference modeling with binary fuzzy relations -- Construction of fuzzy preference relations -- Discrete models of multicriteria decision making and their analysis -- Generalization of a classic approach to dealing with uncertainty of information for multicriteria decision problems -- Group decision-making : fuzzy models -- Use of consensus schemes in group decision making.