Interactive outranking approaches for multicriteria decision-making problems with imprecise information

Oezerol G., KARASAKAL E.

JOURNAL OF THE OPERATIONAL RESEARCH SOCIETY, vol.59, no.9, pp.1253-1268, 2008 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 59 Issue: 9
  • Publication Date: 2008
  • Doi Number: 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602458
  • Journal Name: JOURNAL OF THE OPERATIONAL RESEARCH SOCIETY
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.1253-1268
  • Keywords: multiple criteria decision aid, interactive approach, PROMETHEE, outranking relation, imprecise information, VALUED PREFERENCE RELATIONS, INCOMPLETE INFORMATION, POTENTIAL OPTIMALITY, PROMETHEE METHOD, UTILITY-FUNCTIONS, RANKING METHODS, DISCRETE, ALTERNATIVES, PARAMETERS, DOMINANCE
  • Middle East Technical University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

PROMETHEE is a powerful method, which can solve many multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) problems. It involves sophisticated preference modelling techniques but requires too much a priori precise information about parameter values (such as criterion weights and thresholds). In this paper, we consider a MCDM problem where alternatives are evaluated on several conflicting criteria, and the criterion weights and/or thresholds are imprecise or unknown to the decision maker (DM). We build robust outranking relations among the alternatives in order to help the DM to rank the alternatives and select the best alternative. We propose interactive approaches based on PROMETHEE method. We develop a decision aid tool called INTOUR, which implements the developed approaches.