Adapting Thurstone’s Law of Comparative Judgment to fuse preference orderings in manufacturing applications

F. Franceschini () and D. Maisano
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F. Franceschini: Politecnico di Torino
D. Maisano: Politecnico di Torino

Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, 2020, vol. 31, issue 2, No 9, 387-402

Abstract: Abstract A rather common problem in the manufacturing field includes: (i) a collection of objects to be compared on the basis of the degree of some attribute, (ii) a set of judges that individually express their subjective judgments on these objects, and (iii) a single collective judgment, which is obtained by fusing the previous subjective judgments. The goal of this contribution is to develop a new technique that combines the Thurstone’s Law of Comparative Judgment with an ad hoc response mode based on preference orderings. Apart from being relatively practical and user-friendly, this technique allows to express the collective judgment of objects on a ratio scale and is applicable to a variety of practical contexts in the field of manufacturing. The description of the proposed technique is integrated with the application to a practical case study.

Keywords: Manufacturing; Quality engineering/management; Decision making; Preference ordering; Paired comparison; Law of comparative judgment; Scaling; Ratio scale (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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