Jan 08, 2015Open AccessPreprint
There are many ranking schemes of complex entities
defined by multiple attributes. Their purpose is to determine which
decision-making unit (DMU) is “better”, which one is “worse”, or if one unit
“dominates” another. Most of those ranking endeavours require an initial
groundwork of data, which frequently introduces some subjective restrictions to
the analysis. To avoid any subjectivity, the best would be to use the “raw”
numerical values of attributes with no normalization, standardization,
aggr...