An axiomatic analysis of concordance-discordance relations

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 199, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 468-477

  Bouyssou, Denis ^a,b   Pirlot, Marc ^c  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DAUPHINE   (France)

^c FACULTÉ POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Concordance; Conjoint measurement; Discordance; Multiple criteria analysis; Non transitive preferences; Outranking methods

Indexed keywords

CONCORDANCE; CONJOINT MEASUREMENT; DISCORDANCE; MULTIPLE CRITERIA ANALYSIS; NON-TRANSITIVE PREFERENCES; OUTRANKING METHODS;

DECISION THEORY;

EID: 67349234201     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2008.11.011     Document Type: Article

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