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ELECTRE-III is a well-known multi-criteria decision analysis method that ranks a set of alternatives in terms of a set of heterogeneous evaluation criteria. It is based on constructing and exploiting a pairwise outranking relation between alternatives, which are defined with numerical and ordinal values. However, nowadays it is very common the use of descriptive linguistic tags, which is information that requires a qualitative treatment rather than a numerical one. In this paper we propose to store the user preferences about a set of tags in an ontological structure and to use this knowledge to construct the outranking relation by means of a semantic analysis of the tags associated to the alternatives. Uncertainty is handled by means of fuzzy concordance and discordance functions. The method is illustrated with a case study related to the recommendation of touristic activities.
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This work has been funded by Spanish research project SHADE (TIN-2012-34369): Semantic and Hierarchical Attributes in Decision Making. The first author is a Martí-Franquès grant holder at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona, Spain). URV also supports this work through grant 2014PFR-URV-B2-60.
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Martínez-García, M., Valls, A., Moreno, A. (2016). Construction of an Outranking Relation Based on Semantic Criteria with ELECTRE-III. In: Carvalho, J., Lesot, MJ., Kaymak, U., Vieira, S., Bouchon-Meunier, B., Yager, R. (eds) Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems. IPMU 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 611. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40581-0_20
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