Ordinal Qualitative Scales

Salvatore Greco (), Benedetto Matarazzo and Roman Słowiński
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Salvatore Greco: University of Catania

A chapter in Multiple Criteria Decision Making for Sustainable Energy and Transportation Systems, 2010, pp 269-276 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract We consider aggregation of multiple criteria evaluations expressed on qualitative ordinal scales, which means representation of multiple criteria preferences using finite sets of values, such as “bad”, “medium”, “good”, or “weak”, “normal”, “strong”. The evaluation scales regarding single criteria, as well as comprehensive evaluations, are qualitative. Moreover, the qualitative evaluations concern either single alternatives (e.g., x is “bad”, or “medium”, or “good”) or degrees of preference for pairs of alternatives (e.g., x is “indifferent” to y, or x is “weakly preferred” to y, or x is “strongly preferred” to y).

Keywords: Ordinal qualitative scales; Multiple criteria cecision analysis; Preference representation; Intensity of preference. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-04045-0_23

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