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An Ordinal Multi-criteria Decision-Making Procedure in the Context of Uniform Qualitative Scales

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Soft Computing Applications for Group Decision-making and Consensus Modeling

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In this contribution, we propose a multi-criteria decision-making procedure that has been devised in a purely ordinal way. Agents evaluate the alternatives regarding several criteria by assigning one or two consecutive terms of a uniform ordered qualitative scale to each alternative in each criterion. Weights assigned to criteria are managed through replications of the corresponding ratings, and alternatives are ranked according to the medians of their ratings after the replications.

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Acknowledgements

This contribution is dedicated to Mario Fedrizzi in occasion of his retirement. The authors gratefully acknowledge the funding support of the Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (project ECO2016-77900-P) and ERDF.

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  1. PRESAD Research Group, BORDA Research Unit, IMUVA, Departamento de Economía Aplicada, Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain

    José Luis García-Lapresta

  2. PRESAD Research Group, IMUVA, Departamento de Economía Aplicada, Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain

    Raquel González del Pozo

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  1. School of Business and Management, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Lappeenranta, Finland

    Mikael Collan

  2. Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

    Janusz Kacprzyk

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García-Lapresta, J.L., González del Pozo, R. (2018). An Ordinal Multi-criteria Decision-Making Procedure in the Context of Uniform Qualitative Scales. In: Collan, M., Kacprzyk, J. (eds) Soft Computing Applications for Group Decision-making and Consensus Modeling. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol 357. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60207-3_18

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