Ranking methods are fundamental tools in many areas. Popular methods aggregate the statements of `experts' in different … ways. As such, there are various reasonable ranking methods, each one of them more or less adapted to the environment under …

Ranking by rating consists in evaluating the performances of items using exoge- nous rating functions and ranking these … the performances of the remaining items. When performances belong to a finite set, ranking by rating is characterized by … separability and a property of con- sistency; this characterization generalizes to the infinite case under a continuity axiom …

Sum of Ranking Differences is an innovative statistical method that ranks competing solutions based on a reference …

and procedures for ranking alternatives with complete local unique weights (by half-space cones), partial local … can be stated. It is possible to determine whether the decision maker's behavior is quasi-concave or quasi-convex and use … the appropriate theory to rank alternatives. Several examples are presented …