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Shih, HS. (2022). Rank Reversal in TOPSIS. In: TOPSIS and its Extensions: A Distance-Based MCDM Approach. Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, vol 447. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09577-1_7
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