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Decision chains in analyzing multicriteria choice problems

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This article provides a comparative analysis of chains of alternatives that emerge in solving multicriteria choice problems by methods of the criteria importance theory and the even swap method and brings to light the essential difference between these chains.

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  1. National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, 101000, Russia

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Original Russian Text © V.V. Podinovski, 2016, published in Nauchno-Tekhnicheskaya Informatsiya, Seriya 2: Informatsionnye Protsessy i Sistemy, 2016, No. 12, pp. 26–32.

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Podinovski, V.V. Decision chains in analyzing multicriteria choice problems. Autom. Doc. Math. Linguist. 50, 237–242 (2016). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0005105516060030

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