Download or read book Ranking and Prioritization for Multi indicator Systems written by Rainer Brüggemann and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-07-08 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides axioms of partial order and some basic material, for example consequences of “criss-crossing” of data profiles, the role of aggregations of the indicators and the powerful method of formal concept analysis. The interested reader will learn how to apply fuzzy methods in partial order analysis and what ‘antagonistic indicator’ means.

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