On redundancy in multi criteria decision making

On redundancy in multi criteria decision making

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Article ID: iaor19991036
Country: Netherlands
Volume: 98
Issue: 3
Start Page Number: 571
End Page Number: 586
Publication Date: May 1997
Journal: European Journal of Operational Research
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Keywords: decision theory: multiple criteria
Abstract:

The concept of redundancy is accepted in Operations Research and Information Theory. In Linear Programming, a constraint is said to be redundant if the feasible decision space is identical with or without the constraint. In Information Theory, redundancy is used as a measure of the stability against noise in transmission. Analogies with Multi Criteria Decision Making are indicated and it is argued that the redundancy concept should be used as a regular feature in conditioning and analysis of Multi Criteria Programs. Properties of a proposed conflict-based characterisation are stated and some existence results are derived. Redundancy is here intended for interactive methods, when the efficient set is progressively explored. A new redundancy test for the linear case is formulated from the framework. A probabilistic method based on correlation is proposed and tested for the non-linear case. Finally, some general guidelines are given concerning the redundancy problem.

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