ELECTRE: Robust ordinal regression for outranking methods |
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Authors: | Salvatore Greco Vincent Mousseau |
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Affiliation: | a Faculty of Economics, University of Catania, Corso Italia, 55, 95129 Catania, Italy b Institute of Computing Science, Poznań University of Technology, 60-965 Poznań, Poland c Laboratoire Génie Industriel, Ecole Centrale Paris, Grande Voie des Vignes, 92 295 Châtenay-Malabry Cedex, France d Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, 01-447 Warsaw, Poland |
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Abstract: | We present a new method, called ELECTREGKMS, which employs robust ordinal regression to construct a set of outranking models compatible with preference information. The preference information supplied by the decision maker (DM) is composed of pairwise comparisons stating the truth or falsity of the outranking relation for some real or fictitious reference alternatives. Moreover, the DM specifies some ranges of variation of comparison thresholds on considered pseudo-criteria. Using robust ordinal regression, the method builds a set of values of concordance indices, concordance thresholds, indifference, preference, and veto thresholds, for which all specified pairwise comparisons can be restored. Such sets are called compatible outranking models. Using these models, two outranking relations are defined, necessary and possible. Whether for an ordered pair of alternatives there is necessary or possible outranking depends on the truth of outranking relation for all or at least one compatible model, respectively. Distinguishing the most certain recommendation worked out by the necessary outranking, and a possible recommendation worked out by the possible outranking, ELECTREGKMS answers questions of robustness concern. The method is intended to be used interactively with incremental specification of pairwise comparisons, possibly with decreasing confidence levels. In this way, the necessary and possible outranking relations can be, respectively, enriched or impoverished with the growth of the number of pairwise comparisons. Furthermore, the method is able to identify troublesome pieces of preference information which are responsible for incompatibility. The necessary and possible outranking relations are to be exploited as usual outranking relations to work out recommendation in choice or ranking problems. The introduced approach is illustrated by a didactic example showing how ELECTREGKMS can support real-world decision problems. |
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Keywords: | Robust ordinal regression Outranking relation Multiple criteria ranking and choice ELECTRE-like method |
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