A minimum violations ranking method

A Minimum Violations Ranking Method

We present a rating method that, given information on the pairwise comparisons of n items, minimizes the number of inconsistencies in the ranking of those items. Our Minimum Violations Ranking (MVR) Method uses a binary linear integer program (BILP) to do this. We prove conditions when the relaxed LP will give an optimal solution to the original BILP. In addition, the LP solution gives informat...

Ranking of DMUs on interval data by imposing a minimum weight restriction in DEA

A Too-Clever Ranking Method

behind it, see Anderson and Perlis (2005). 3. In the case of logic-based domains, an anomaly often takes the form of a direct contradiction, E and ¬E. This is the case, for instance, not only in the nonmonotonic reasoning domain, but also in the natural language domain discussed in this article. For these, we employ active logic (Elgot-Drapkin and Perlis 2006), a time-sensitive inference engine...

A novel parametric ranking method for intuitionistic fuzzy numbers

Since the inception of intuitionistic fuzzy sets in 1986, many authors have proposed different methods for ranking intuitionistic fuzzy numbers (IFNs). How ever, due to the complexity of the problem, a method which gives a satisfactory result to all situations is a challenging task. Most of them contained some shortcomings, such as requirement of complicated calculations, inconsistency with hum...

A new method for ranking of Z-numbers

In this paper we propose a new method for ranking Z- numbers and generalizations. This method is based on the internal structure of the artificial neural network, which suggests that the structure of this network consists of inputs weights and the transfer function linear, nonlinear and sometimes linear and nonlinear. It is shown that the proposed method while possessing the ranking properties ...