Article ID: | iaor19941553 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 2 |
Issue: | 3 |
Start Page Number: | 171 |
End Page Number: | 178 |
Publication Date: | Dec 1993 |
Journal: | Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis |
Authors: | Abbas M., Vincke P. |
Preferences are often presented in terms of a function, in the deterministic case as well as in the probabilistic case. In the present paper the authors develop a new numerical representation of preference structures for which the strict preference relation is without cricuit but not necessarily transitive. Moreover, they investigate the consequences of the representation for the usual preference structures. In particular, the authors propose new formulations for the numerical representation of the interval order structure.