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Outranking Relations: Do They Have Special Properties?
Author(s) -
Bouyssou Denis
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
journal of multi‐criteria decision analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.462
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1099-1360
pISSN - 1057-9214
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-1360(199606)5:2<99::aid-mcda97>3.0.co;2-8
Subject(s) - electre , concordance , transitive relation , computer science , mathematics , mathematical economics , operations research , multiple criteria decision analysis , combinatorics , medicine
Outranking relations are most often built using a concordance–discordance principle. Such relations are in general neither transitive nor complete. This is not to say that the concordance–discordance principle does not impose some ‘structural’ restrictions on these relations. We show why this question may be of some importance for analysing the various techniques designed to build a recommendation on the basis of such relations. These restrictions are studied for the ELECTRE and PROMETHEE methods.