%0 Journal Article %T Using CSW weightĄ¯s in UTASTAR method %A ahmad makui %A Maryam Momeni %J Decision Science Letters %D 2012 %I Growing Science %R 10.5267/j.dsl.2012.06.001 %X Several researchers have considered similarities between Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) and Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), as tools for solving decision making problems. As the preferences of decision- maker (DM) on alternatives are not considered in classical DEA, some researchers have tried to consider it in DEA. The UTA-STAR method is one of the techniques widely used in Multi Criteria Decision Analysis. In this technique, the preferences of decision maker on alternatives are considered and UTA-STAR tries to compute the most suitable weights for criteria and alternatives to obtain a utility function having a minimum deviation from the preferences. The goal of this paper is interpreting decision makerĄ¯s preferences in UTA-STAR method, in a new manner, using the common set of weights (CSW) in DEA. %K CSW %K UTASTAR %K DEA %U http://www.growingscience.com/dsl/Vol1/dsl_2012_1.pdf