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Rating or sorting: Terminology matters
Author(s) -
Colorni Alberto,
Tsoukiàs Alexis
Publication year - 2021
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/mcda.1733
Subject(s) - terminology , term (time) , sorting , class (philosophy) , visibility , linguistics , multiple criteria decision analysis , epistemology , psychology , computer science , management science , artificial intelligence , sociology , operations research , geography , mathematics , philosophy , engineering , algorithm , physics , quantum mechanics , meteorology
In this article, we argue that the term “sorting” (in MCDA), although established within a well‐defined community, is unappropriate for linguistic, scientific and pragmatic reasons. We present and discuss such reasons and we suggest the use of the term “rating”, since fitting better both the foundational part of this class of methods and the necessity to improve the visibility of our community.