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Outranking Methods

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This chapter reviews outranking methods, focusing on two developed techniques: ELECTRE and PROMETHEE, These techniques seek to eliminate alternatives dominated according to a set of weights which is assumed to be given.

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  1. Department of Business Analysis, College of Business Administration and Graduate School of Business, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, 77843-4217, USA

    David L. Olson

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Olson, D.L. (1996). Outranking Methods. In: Decision Aids for Selection Problems. Springer Series in Operations Research. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3982-6_8

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