Article ID: | iaor200024 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 36 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 35 |
End Page Number: | 44 |
Publication Date: | Jan 1999 |
Journal: | Computers & Industrial Engineering |
Authors: | Triantaphyllou Evangelos, Ray Thomas |
A critical problem in decision analysis is how to evaluate the difference between two or more different rankings of a set of alternatives. In this paper it is assumed that a group of decision makers has already established a ranking for each one of a set of alternatives. Then, the problem examined here is how to evaluate the differences among these rankings. This problem does not have a unique solution and thus we consider a number of alternative approaches. The analysis presented here illustrates that this problem is not trivial and, moreover, it is associated with some counter-intuitive issues.