On a pairwise comparison-based consistent non-numerical ranking

Logic Journal of the IGPL

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 667-676

  Janicki, Ryszard ^a   Zhai, Yun ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Artificial Intelligence in Medicine   (Canada)

Author keywords

Consistency; Non numerical ranking; Pairwise comparisons; Partial orders

Indexed keywords

CONSISTENCY; NON-NUMERICAL RANKING; PAIR-WISE COMPARISON; PARTIAL ORDER; PROPERTY; SUBJECTIVE RANKING;

SUBJECTIVE TESTING;

EID: 80054069609     PISSN: 13670751     EISSN: 13689894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jigpal/jzr018     Document Type: Article

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