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In the perspective of decision aid, modelling activity (process) has substantially two roles: firstly in helping to comprehend, by mastering the various possible actions and by the reflections it gives to preexisting preferences, and secondly in contributing to the formation and evolution of the preferences of the decision maker(s) (DM) on stage so as to make acceptable or discover possibilities which were previously refused or not considered.

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Ostanello, A. (1985). Outranking Methods. In: Fandel, G., Spronk, J. (eds) Multiple Criteria Decision Methods and Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70583-0_4

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