This homework is due on Feb 8. This is a group project

• Implement the procedure you formulated for elimination by aspects using your favorite programming language (e.g., C/C++, Visual Basic, Pascal, Lisp, Perl, Prolog,...., Cobol (gasp!!)). Extend the procedure to allow criteria to be weighted. Apply it to five cases to demonstrate that it works. In each case assume that you are given a set of alternatives and their properties, a set of criteria and their values and weights on the criteria.
  1. Create a case in which application of the procedure yields a unique decision.

  2. Create a case in which application of the procedure yields more than one choice.

  3. Create a case in which application of the procedure yields no choice (i.e., all alternatives have been rejected)

  4. present "what if" scenarios, wherein property values of alternatives are changed, weights on criteria are changed, and values of criteria are changed.

  5. demonstrate the ability to queru the system as to why an alternative was rejected (i.e., if alternative a1 was rejected, I want to know the criteria which it passed and which it failed)

• After reading chapters 2,3 and 4 of the material on problem structuring and modeling, study the Green Valley Foods case. The document is a Word document and you need to set up netscape to launch Word as a helper application. Of course, you can save the file and then read it within Word. But, try and use the opportunity to learn how to set up helper applications. You only need to answer questions a and b.. Question c needs to be turned in Feb 15.

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