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Ordinal Inconsistency
This chapter focuses on ordinal consistency (transitivity) of pairwise comparisons. A summary of ordinal inconsistency indices is presented as well...
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Uncertainty Analysis in Group Decisions through Interval Ordinal Priority Approach
In multiple criteria decision-making (MCDM) problems, ranking alternatives is usually the end. However, in real life, it is rarely an end in itself...
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Probabilistic Approach to Multi-Stage Supplier Evaluation: Confidence Level Measurement in Ordinal Priority Approach
A popular framework of the supplier selection process is usually characterized by problem definition, criteria formulation, supplier screening, and...
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Robust Ordinal Regression for Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding
We review the Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding (MCDA) methods in the stream of Robust Ordinal Regression (ROR). They incorporate indirect preference...
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An extension of correspondence analysis based on the multiple Taguchi’s index to evaluate the relationships between three categorical variables graphically: an application to the Italian football championship
The aim of this paper is to evaluate the relationships between three categorical variables, of which at least one is ordinal, from a graphical point...
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A General Mathematical Framework for Constrained Mixed-variable Blackbox Optimization Problems with Meta and Categorical Variables
A mathematical framework for modelling constrained mixed-variable optimization problems is presented in a blackbox optimization context. The...
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An epsilon-based data envelopment analysis approach for solving performance measurement problems with interval and ordinal dual-role factors
Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a linear programming method for measuring the performance and efficiency of units called decision-making units...
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Group Decision Making with Transitive Preferences Under Ordinal and Cardinal Consistencies: An Optimization Approach
With the ubiquity of preference relations used in group decision making (GDM), controlling the transitivity of preferences characterized by...
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Exploring the Ordinal Classifications of Failure Modes in the Reliability Management: An Optimization-Based Consensus Model with Bounded Confidences
Failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) is a system activity that identifies, evaluates and eliminates potential failure modes (FMs) in a...
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Gresilient supplier selection through Fuzzy Ordinal Priority Approach: decision-making in post-COVID era
Because of the COVID-19 outbreak, the supply of both essential and non-essential goods and services has been unprecedentedly disrupted. In the...
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Double-weighted kNN: a simple and efficient variant with embedded feature selection
Predictive modeling aims at providing estimates of an unknown variable, the target, from a set of known ones, the input. The k Nearest Neighbors ( k NN)...
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Partial cumulative correspondence analysis
Partial correspondence analysis (Yanai, in: Diday, Escoufier, Lebart, Pagès, Schektman, Thomassone (eds) Data analysis and informatics IV,...
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Coming to Consensus on Classification in Flexible Linguistic Preference Relations: The Role of Personalized Individual Semantics
In group decision making problems, linguistic approaches are extensively utilized to convey the preferences of decision makers. It is common for...
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Determination of Standard of Living for People Involved with Tourism in Digha by Ordinal Regression Analysis
Tourism in India has evolved considerably during the last decade, and Bengal as a state has performed considerably well for the growth of tourism....
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Financial sustainability disparities among energy distribution companies: a multi-factor study case in Brazil
The main objective of this paper is to assess how the financial–economic sustainability of the electricity distribution sector in Brazil has evolved...
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Constructing an Outranking Relation from Semantic Criteria and Ordinal Criteria for the ELECTRE Method
This chapter reviews the work done at the ITAKA research group in the last decade on extending the ELECTRE multiple criteria decision aiding method....
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Work Integration Social Enterprises (WISEs) in Public Sector
Work Integration Social Enterprises (WISEs) are one of the leading forms of Social Enterprises in Europe. The analogy of the Public Procurements that...
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Exact and stochastic methods for robustness analysis in the context of Imprecise Data Envelopment Analysis
We consider the problem of measuring the efficiency of decision-making units with a ratio-based model. In this perspective, we introduce a framework...
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Conjoint Analysis
The (traditional) conjoint analysis is a procedure for measuring and analyzing consumers’ preferences for specific objects. The test persons evaluate...