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Decision Aiding
A characterization of concordance relations
Received 25 August 2003;
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Abstract
The notion of concordance is central to many multiple criteria techniques relying on ordinal information, e.g. outranking methods. It leads to compare alternatives by pairs on the basis of a comparison of coalitions of attributes in terms of “importance”. This paper proposes a characterization of the binary relations that can be obtained using such comparisons within a general framework for conjoint measurement that allows for intransitive preferences. We show that such relations are mainly characterized by the very rough differentiation of preference differences that they induce on each attribute.
Author Keywords: Multiple criteria analysis; Concordance; Outranking methods; Conjoint measurement; Nontransitive preferences







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