Analysis of the effectiveness of the theseus multi-criteria sorting method: theoretical remarks and experimental evidence

Eduardo Fernandez (), Jorge Navarro, Edgar Covantes and Jorge Rodriguez
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Eduardo Fernandez: Autonomous University of Sinaloa
Jorge Navarro: Autonomous University of Sinaloa
Edgar Covantes: Autonomous University of Sinaloa
Jorge Rodriguez: Autonomous University of Sinaloa

TOP: An Official Journal of the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research, 2017, vol. 25, issue 2, No 9, 314-339

Abstract: Abstract The effectiveness of the THESEUS multi-criteria sorting method is characterized, here, by (i) its capacity for suggesting precise and appropriate assignments; (ii) the probability of suggesting imprecise assignments; and (iii) the probability of suggesting incorrect assignments. We study how these important features are influenced by the number of criteria and categories, the cardinality of the reference set and the level of decision-maker consistency. We present a theoretical characterization and a wide range of experimental results that confirm and complement the formal analysis. The proposed way of analyzing effectiveness may be applied to other multi-criteria sorting methods.

Keywords: Multiple criteria analysis; Sorting; fuzzy outranking relations; 90B50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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