A general framework for distance-based consensus in ordinal ranking models

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 392-397

  Cook, Wade D ^a   Kress, Moshe ^b   Seiford, Lawrence M ^c  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Ministry of Defence Government of Israel   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Consensus; Ordinal; Preference; Ranking

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PROXIMITY SENSORS; SET THEORY; STRUCTURAL FRAMES;

CONSENSUS; ORDINAL; PREFERENCE; RANKING;

ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

EID: 0030825529     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0377-2217(95)00322-3     Document Type: Article

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