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...

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Doi:10.4236/oalib.preprints.1200078