Rankings of journals and rankings of scientists are usually discussed separately. We argue that a consistent approach to both rankings is desirable because both the quality of a journal and the quality of a scientist depend on the papers it/he publishes. We present a pair of consistent rankings...

This paper proposes new concepts and new results which could lead to a more realistic preference modeling than in classical decision theory. Sections 1--3 present four fundamental situations of preferences, their combinations and the concept of relational system of preferences. In §4, a...

This paper presents Electre Tri-nC, a new sorting method which takes into account several reference actions for characterizing each category. This new method gives a particular freedom to the decision maker in the co-construction decision aiding process with the analyst to characterize the set...