Qualitative programming for selection decisions: A reappraisal

Recently, mixed-qualitative programming was introduced as a general approach to selection decisions where at least some of the available information on the attributes of the alternatives is qualitative. It is shown that, under a variety of circumstances, the framework results in decisions that are identical to those obtained by a somewhat modified version of Borda’s rule of marks. From the identity, it follows that the approach has certain limitations, both as a normative prescriptive and an empirical descriptive model of qualitative decision processes.