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1Department of Construction Technology and Management, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Saulėtekio Alėja 11, LT-10223 Vilnius, Lithuania 2Department of Structural Mechanics, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Brno University of Technology, Veveři Street 95, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic 3Department of Structural Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Giza 12613, Egypt 4Department of Labour Safety and Fire Protection, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Saulėtekio Alėja 11, LT-10223 Vilnius, Lithuania

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  • The formal decision making (DM) methods, with application of which this special issue is concerned to a large measure, were intensively developed and applied to various engineering systems in recent decades

  • Articles published in this special issue prove that useful information for making construction related decisions can be obtained by methods which do not belong to a formal DM, for instance, sensitivity analysis, stochastic analysis, mathematical optimization, occupational safety, and risk assessment

  • They are known as methods of multiple criteria decision making (MCDM)

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Articles published in this special issue prove that useful information for making construction related decisions can be obtained by methods which do not belong to a formal DM, for instance, sensitivity analysis, stochastic analysis, mathematical optimization, occupational safety, and risk assessment. The formal DM methods, with application of which this special issue is concerned to a large measure, were intensively developed and applied to various engineering systems in recent decades. They are known as methods of multiple criteria decision making (MCDM).

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