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Semantic dominance analysis for multicriteria decision‐making problems with unbalanced linguistic scale
Author(s) -
Yang WuE
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
international transactions in operational research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.032
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 1475-3995
pISSN - 0969-6016
DOI - 10.1111/itor.12079
Subject(s) - set (abstract data type) , dominance (genetics) , computer science , decision maker , scale (ratio) , semantics (computer science) , stochastic dominance , mathematics , artificial intelligence , linguistics , operations research , mathematical optimization , programming language , philosophy , biochemistry , chemistry , physics , quantum mechanics , gene
The multicriteria decision‐making problem with an unbalanced linguistic scale is analyzed by multicriteria semantic dominance (MCSD) technique. The technique only requires the available partial semantics information about the scale. The MCSD rules on two types of unbalanced linguistic scale are introduced and proven. With these rules, alternatives are divided into two mutually exclusive sets called the efficient set and inefficient set. The decision maker with a specific type of linguistic scale will never choose the alternative from the corresponding inefficient set as the feasible one. Thus he/she can easily choose from the original alternative set. An example is also provided to illustrate the procedure of the proposed method.