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This paper studies how an overall fuzzy preference relation can be constructed in the compensatory context of the ‘simple additive difference model’, when imprecision on the trade-offs has to be taken into account. Three credibility indices of preferences are analysed and illustrated by a numerical example. Arguments are presented supporting the use of the third index, for which an interesting transitivity property (which was an open problem) is proved.
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Bana e Costa, C.A., Vincke, P. Measuring credibility of compensatory preference statements when trade-offs are interval determined. Theor Decis 39, 127–155 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01078981
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