**2.3 Model construction**

A multicriteria decision analysis was demonstrated in Excel (Microsoft™). Although the model was programmed before the workshop based on the predefined


#### **Table 2.**

*Domains and criteria with definitions as determined in the workshop.*


#### **Table 3.**

*Outcomes definitions and scoring for each decision criterion.*

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domains, criteria, and scoring, there was continuous adaptation throughout the workshop to reflect the input of the participants. The final model integrated all results from the workshop.

Once agreement had been reached on the domains, criteria, and scoring functions, the participants were guided through the process of ranking the criteria and subsequently weighing them for their relative importance.

This involved an anonymous voting with an audience response system (Ombea® with OMBEA ResponsePad™) for defining the decision priorities among the list of 10 criteria (step 4 in **Figure 3**) and the relative importance of each of the criteria in the overall decision (step 5 in **Figure 3**) following the modified simple multiattribute rating technique (SMART) method for ranking and swing weighing of the criteria [29]. For each vote, the result was computed as a median value. The resulting model was tested and reviewed using two test cases (step 6).
