1. Welcome to the home site of the MCA-Needs, the dedicated version of the MCA for multiple criteria analysis of the four models developed by the EU-funded Needs project. This site provides links to the applications developed by the IIASA Integrated Modeling Environment Project, and to their documentation, as well as to the contact to the developers, and to the information on the IME Project.
  1. Login to the MCA-Needs. Note that this application supports multicriteria analysis of the four pre-loaded problems (documented by the reports linked below). For analysis of other problems (including those you may want to define) please visit the MCA Web-site
  2. Documentation:
    1. Requirement Analysis and Implementation of Multicriteria Analysis in the NEEDS Project (IR-09-09)
    2. Multicriteria Methodology for the Needs project (IR-09-10)
    3. Introduction to the survey. Note: This introduction provides an overview of the original version of the MCA-Needs, and is useful as a general introduction. However, the current MCA-Needs version has enhanced interface and functionality; therefore for its documentation please refer to the MCA user guide (IR-09-22)
    4. Alternatives: description of future energy technologies
    5. Criteria and indicators
    6. Database report
  3. Other links:
    1. MCA: the Web-site of the general-purpose MCA implementation
    2. Contact to the developers.
    3. IME: Integrated Modeling Environment Project at IIASA.