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The aim of the two methods briefly outlined here is to aid the decision maker with discrete problems in the presence of more than one cardinal criterion. Methodologically the two have much in common with the original Pairwise Criterion Comparison Approach (PCCA) whose specific quality consists in the possibility to compare feasible actions with respect to all the possible unranked pairs of distinct criteria considered. The partial results thus obtained are then suitably aggregated and used in order to aid the decision maker in a variety of problems. From this point of view, therefore, the approach proposed may be considered as an attempt to make explicit the limited capacity of the human mind to make comparisons between numerous and often conflicting evaluations simultaneously; it offers, instead, a series of comparisons easy to execute one at a time.
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Matarazzo, . (1990). A Pairwise Criterion Comparison Approach: The Mappac and Pragma Methods. In: Bana e Costa, C.A. (eds) Readings in Multiple Criteria Decision Aid. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75935-2_11
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