An axiomatic approach to ELECTRE TRI 1
Denis Bouyssou, Thierry Marchant · 2004
In the literature on MCDM, many methods have been proposed in order to sort alternatives evaluated on several attributes into ordered categories. Most of them were proposed on an ad hoc basis. Using tools from conjoint measurement, this paper takes a more theoretical approach to these sorting methods. We provide an axiomatic analysis of the partitions of alternatives into two categories that can be obtained using what we call "noncompensatory sorting models". These models have strong links with the pessimistic version of ELECTRE TRI and our analysis allows to pinpoint what appears to be the main distinctive features of ELECTRE TRI when compared to other sorting methods.