3. ORESTE Method

The ORESTE method was initially introduced by Roubens at a conference in 1980 (Mercier et al. Appl Math Comput 54:183–196, 1993 [10]; Pastijn and Leysen in Math Comput Model 12:1255–1268, 1989 [11]; Roubens in Eur J Oper Res 10:51–55, 1982 [12]) and then was expanded in an article in 1980. ORESTE is used when the decision maker provides an analyst with an initial ranking of the attributes for decision making. Also, the best alternative is selected among the various alternatives, which is accompanied by different qualitative and quantitative attributes. This technique is used in many cases such as ranking of Web design firms (Adali and Isik in Ege Akad Bakis 17:243–253, 2017 [13]), material selection (Chatterjee and Chakraborty in Mater Des 35:384–393, 2012 [14]), and insurance company selection (Isik in Alphanumeric J 4:55–68, 2016 [15]).