| Article ID: | iaor1996580 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 60 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 61 |
| End Page Number: | 67 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 1992 |
| Journal: | European Journal of Operational Research |
| Authors: | Bouyssou Denis |
This paper deals with the problem of ranking several alternatives on the basis of a valued preference relation. A system of three independent axioms is shown to characterize a ranking method based on ‘net flows’ which contains as particular cases the rules of Copeland and Borda and is used in one of the