Ranking with Partial Information: A Method and an Application

Craig W. Kirkwood and Rakesh K. Sarin
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Craig W. Kirkwood: Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
Rakesh K. Sarin: University of California, Los Angeles, California

Operations Research, 1985, vol. 33, issue 1, 38-48

Abstract: A method is presented for ranking multiattributed alternatives using a weighted-additive evaluation function with partial information about the weighting (scaling) constants, the method is applied to evaluate materials for use in nuclear waste containment. The paper derives conditions to determine whether a pair of alternatives can be ranked given the partial information about weighting constants, and presents an algorithm that partially rank-orders the complete set of alternatives based on the pairwise ranking information.

Keywords: 91 multiobjective decision analysis; 852 ranking with partial information on weights; 855 evaluation of materials for nuclear waste repositories (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1985
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