Software Resources for Developing Multicriteria Applications: A Review, Part 1: Introduction and types of software resources developed.

In the last years, some Software Resources for Developing Multicriteria Applications (SRDMA) have been developed. The purpose of this review is to determine the state of the art on SRDMA to obtain a catalog of what has been developed which include libraries, frameworks, webservices and others. For this, it was performed a web search of research published in the last 10 years.

We have published this review in three different parts and presented the on three different congresses of Mol2Net series according to the topic. The publications and software found were classified into 3 different categories. Part 1: types of software resources developed (NIECXSM), Part 2: multicriteria methods implemented (USEDAT-08) and operating systems supported (CATCHTOHIT-03).

To analyze them we carry out a Contextual and a Formal Concept Analysis. Findings suggest that the type of software resources most developed was frameworks and the most used multicriteria methods were AHP and TOPSIS. The most supported operating systems were Windows, Linux and Mac. Thus, we consider that future research should contemplate the development of more generic SRDMA that implement a greater variety of multicriteria methods than those used up to now, which are available to developers through flexible licenses that allow them to be easily integrated into new application developments.