ADDIS software suite updated

11 Dec 2019 — Kārlis Zālīte

In parallel to maintaining and upgrading our public software we have developed an initial Enterprise version of our web-based Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) tool. This version is commercially licensed and offers expanded functionality:

• Sign-in with non-Google credentials
• User rights management
• SMAA analysis using several preference scenarios

Please contact us for further details, to purchase a license, or to submit feature requests.

We have also developed procedures (besides the existing ones for Linux and docker containers) to deploy our tools in the following environments:

• Kubernetes
• Microsoft Windows (requires Docker or Docker toolbox)

A summary of features and bug fixes:

ADDIS

• User can now archive a dataset
• Minor bugfixes

MCDA

• Manual input redesign:
  • A data source is no longer automatically created when adding a criterion
  • Input of unit of measurement, strength of evidence, and uncertainties now moved to step 2
  • Alternatives can now be edited after adding
  • Separate the effects table into a deterministic and a SMAA tab.
  • Ability to automatically generate distributions for the SMAA tab using values entered in the Deterministic tab
  • Support free text in cells
  • Support range effects and distributions
  • Where possible, during analysis subtitute missing values with ones from the other tab
• Redesign unit of measurement to have three options:
  • Proportion (decimal), with values between 0 and 1
  • Proportion (percentage), with values between 0 and 100
  • Custom, with user-defined bounds
• Redesigned workspace settings
• Each data source can now have its own unit of measurement
• On the Overview tab, effects table is no longer displayed. Instead, criteria and datasources are displayed in a similar way to the manual input. In addition, the available measurements are displayed for each datasource and alternative.
• Cells not useable for analysis are now highlighted in the effects table if ‘Values used for analysis’ option is selected
• On the Preferences tab, added a button to reset the weight preferences
• On the SMAA tab, the user can now set whether to consider uncertainty in measurements and weights (if possible)
• On the SMAA tab, added the Measurements table containing the input for the analysis
• The SMAA tab is disabled if:
  • No preferences are provided, or
  • There is no uncertainty (all measurements are deterministic and weights are provided through matching or precise swing weighting)
• User can now adjust the width of columns in the effects table (Firefox and Chrome)
• Bugfixes

GeMTC

• Minor bugfixes