A multi-attribute method for choosing among potential alternatives with ordinal evaluation

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 174, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 360-373

  Rebai, Abdelwaheb ^a   Aouni, Belaïd ^b   Martel, Jean Marc ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SFAX   (Tunisia)

^b LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Choice problematic; Multi attribute bag; Multi attribute evaluation; Ordinal scale measurements

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

CHOICE METHOD; MULTI-ATTRIBUTE BAGS; MULTI-ATTRIBUTE EVALUATION; ORDINAL SCALE MEASUREMENTS; POSITIONAL ADVANTAGE OPERATORS;

MULTIVARIABLE SYSTEMS;

EID: 33845237824     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2005.01.045     Document Type: Article

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