Robust multi-criteria sorting with the outranking preference model and characteristic profiles

Omega (United Kingdom)

Volumn 55, Issue , 2015, Pages 126-140

  Kadziński, Miłosz ^a   Tervonen, Tommi ^b   Rui Figueira, José ^c  

^a POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b Erasmus University Rotterdam   (Netherlands)

^c INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Electre Tri C; Multiple criteria sorting; Outranking relation; Preference disaggregation; Robustness analysis

Indexed keywords

DISAGGREGATION; ELECTRE TRI; ELECTRE TRI-C; MULTI-CRITERIA; MULTIPLE CRITERIA; MULTIPLE CRITERIA SORTING; OUTRANKING RELATION; PREFERENCE DISAGGREGATION; PREFERENCE MODELS; ROBUSTNESS ANALYSIS;

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE);

EID: 84939890691     PISSN: 03050483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.omega.2014.06.004     Document Type: Article

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