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Basic Concepts of Preference Modelling

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Preferences play a fundamental role both at the individual and at the collective levels. For this reason, preference modelling is an important step in decision-aid, economy, sociology, psychology, operations research,…

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Vincke, P. (1990). Basic Concepts of Preference Modelling. 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_6

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