1997 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
A General Model of Preference Aggregation
Authors : D. Bouyssou, M. Pirlot, Ph. Vincke
Published in: Essays In Decision Making
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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A general model is presented which encompasses many procedures used for aggregating preferences in multicriteria decision making (or decision aid) methods. Are covered in particular: MAUT, ELECTRE and several other outranking methods. The main interest of the model is to provide a key for understanding the differences between methods. Methods are analyzed in terms of their way of dealing with “preference differences” on each criterion/attribute. The more or less large number of equivalence classes of preference differences that can be distinguished in a method helps to situate it in a continuum going from compensatory to noncompensatory procedures, from cardinal to ordinal methods.