A new dominance intensity method to deal with ordinal information about a DM's preferences within MAVT

Dominance measuring methods are an approach to deal with complex decision-making problems with imprecise information. These methods are based on the computation of pairwise dominance values and exploit the information in the dominance matrix in different ways to derive measures of dominance intensity and rank the alternatives under consideration. In this paper we propose a new dominance measuring method to deal with ordinal information about decision-maker preferences in both weights and component utilities. It takes advantage of the centroid of the polytope delimited by ordinal information and builds triangular fuzzy numbers whose distances to the crisp value 0 constitute the basis for the definition of a dominance intensity measure. Monte Carlo simulation techniques have been used to compare the performance of this method with other existing approaches. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.