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The notion of Relative Importance of Criteria (RIC) is central in the domain of Multiple Criteria Decision Aid (MCDA). It aims at differentiating the role of each criterion in the construction of comprehensive preferences, thus allowing to discriminate among pareto-optimal alternatives. In most aggregation procedures, this notion takes the form of importance parameters.
The acquisition of information concerning the RIC may be supported by Elicitation Techniques for Importance Parameters (ETIP). The design of such techniques should account for both the meaning that each aggregation confers on its parameters and the decision makers’ (DMs) understanding of the notion of RIC. More precisely, ETIPs should be able to provide a good fit between the way the analyst uses the DM’s assertions in the model and the information that he/she expresses through his/her statements.
In this paper, we present an ETIP adapted to the ELECTRE methods that proceeds by means of pairwise comparisons of fictitious alternatives. Implemented in a software program called DIVAPIME, this ETIP supports the elicitation of variation intervals for the ELECTRE methods’ preferential parameters.
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Mousseau, V. (1995). Eliciting Information Concerning the Relative Importance of Criteria. In: Pardalos, P.M., Siskos, Y., Zopounidis, C. (eds) Advances in Multicriteria Analysis. Nonconvex Optimization and Its Applications, vol 5. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2383-0_3
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