Title: An interactive disaggregation approach inferring the indifference and the preference thresholds of PROMETHEE II

Authors: Hela Frikha; Habib Chabchoub; Jean-Marc Martel

Addresses: GIAD, Faculté des Sciences Economiques et de Gestion de Sfax, Université de Sfax, Route de l'aérodrome Km 4, B.P 1088, 3018 Sfax, Tunisie. ' GIAD, Faculté des Sciences Economiques et de Gestion de Sfax, Université de Sfax, Route de l'aérodrome Km 4, B.P 1088, 3018 Sfax, Tunisie. ' Faculté des Sciences de l'Administration, Université Laval, Cité Universitaire, Québec (Qué.), G1K 7P4, Canada

Abstract: The implementation of most multicriteria decision aid methods requires fixing certain parameters in order to model the decision-maker|s preferences. The fixing of these parameters| values must be naturally done with the decision-maker|s collaboration. The parameters| determination constitutes an important task, which is generally quite delicate and difficult to accomplish, for the decision-maker. In fact, the information provided at this level is inevitably subjective and partial. In this paper, we intend to determine the values of the indifference and preference thresholds in PROMETHEE II method, by exploiting the information provided by the decision-maker and by taking support on the mathematical programming.

Keywords: multicriteria decision making; MCDM; mathematical programming; preference disaggregation; PROMETHEE; indifference thresholds; preference thresholds.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMCDM.2011.043554

International Journal of Multicriteria Decision Making, 2011 Vol.1 No.4, pp.365 - 393

Published online: 29 Nov 2014 *

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