| Article ID: | iaor20084636 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 178 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 168 |
| End Page Number: | 184 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2007 |
| Journal: | European Journal of Operational Research |
| Authors: | Marichal Jean-Luc, Kojadinovic Ivan |
| Keywords: | entropy |
In the context of multicriteria decision making whose aggregation process is based on the Choquet integral, bi-capacities can be regarded as a natural extension of capacities when the underlying evaluation scale is bipolar. The notion of entropy, recently generalized to capacities to measure their uniformity, is now extended to bi-capacities. We show that the resulting entropy measure has a very natural interpretation in terms of the Choquet integral and satisfies many natural properties that one would expect from an entropy measure.