Paper Info
Title
A multiple criteria sorting method where each category is characterized by several reference actions: The Electre Tri-nC method.
Abstract
This paper presents ELECTRE TRI-NC, a new sorting method which takes into account several reference actions for characterizing each category. This new method gives a particular freedom to the decision maker in the co-construction decision aiding process with the analyst to characterize the set of categories, while there is no constraint for introducing only one reference action as typical of each category like in ELECTRE TRI-C (Almeida-Dias et al., 2010). As in such a sorting method, this new sorting method is composed of two joint rules. ELECTRE TRI-NC also fulfills a certain number of natural requirements. Additional results on the behavior of the new method are also provided in this paper, namely the ones with respect to the addition or removal of the reference actions used for characterizing a certain category. A numerical example illustrates the manner in which ELECTRE TRI-NC can be used by a decision maker. A comparison with some related sorting procedures is presented and it allows to conclude that the new method is appropriate to deal with sorting problems. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1016/j.ejor.2011.09.047
European Journal of Operational Research
Keywords
Field
DocType
Multiple criteria decision aiding,Constructive approach,Sorting,Electre Tri-nC,Decision support
Multiple criteria,Decision support system,ELECTRE,Sorting,Artificial intelligence,Mathematics,Decision maker
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
217
3
0377-2217
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
27
0.97
12
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Juscelino Almeida Dias11265.25
José Rui Figueira285259.84
Bernard Roy327697.78