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An attempt is made to explore the implications of weakening the transitivity condition used in defining a fuzzy preference ordering for various results established in the literature.
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Jain, N. Transitivity of fuzzy relations and rational choice. Ann Oper Res 23, 265–278 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02204851
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02204851