Semiorders: Properties, Representations, Applications

Semiorders: Properties, Representations, Applications

by Marc Pirlot, P. Vincke
Semiorders: Properties, Representations, Applications

Semiorders: Properties, Representations, Applications

by Marc Pirlot, P. Vincke

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Overview

Semiorder is probably one of the most frequently ordered structures in science. It naturally appears in fields like psychometrics, economics, decision sciences, linguistics and archaeology. It explicitly takes into account the inevitable imprecisions of scientific instruments by allowing the replacement of precise numbers by intervals. The purpose of this book is to dissect this structure and to study its fundamental properties. The main subjects treated are the numerical representations of semiorders, the generalizations of the concept to valued relations, the aggregation of semiorders and their basic role in a general theoretical framework for multicriteria decision-aid methods.
Audience: This volume is intended for students and researchers in the fields of decision analysis, management science, operations research, discrete mathematics, classification, social choice theory, and order theory, as well as for practitioners in the design of decision tools.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9789048148691
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Publication date: 12/06/2010
Series: Theory and Decision Library B , #36
Edition description: Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1997
Pages: 190
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction. 1. First Presentation. 2. History and Applications. 3. Basic Concepts and Definitions. 4. Minimal Representations. 5. Valued Semiorders. 6. Aggregation of Semiorders. 7. Miscellaneous. Conclusion. Bibliography. Author Index. Index.
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