computeAlternativesQualification

Provider:RXMCDA Version:1.0

Description

-Contact: Patrick Meyer (patrick.meyer@telecom-bretagne.eu)

Computes the strength, weakness and qualification of the alternatives. Requires a 0-1 valued outranking relation as input.

Inputs

alternatives

Description:

A list of alternatives. Alternatives can be activated or desactivated via the <active> tag (true or false). By default (no <active> tag), alternatives are considered as active.

XMCDA related:

-Tag: alternatives

-Code:

<alternatives>
    <alternative>
        <active>[...]</active>
        [...]
    </alternative>
    [...]
</alternatives>

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binaryOutrankingRelation

Description:

A 0-1 valued outranking relation. The numeric <value> indicates a the valuation for each <pair> of the relation.

XMCDA related:

-Tag: alternativesComparisons

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Outputs

messages

Description:

A list of messages generated by the algorithm.

XMCDA related:

-Tag: methodMessages

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alternativesWeakness

Description:

Alternatives’ weakness (number of alternatives which “beat” a given alternative).

XMCDA related:

-Tag: alternativesValues

-Code:

                    <alternativesValues mcdaConcept="weakness">
                    <alternativeValue>
            <alternativeID>[...]</alternativeID>
            <value>
                    <real>[...]</real>
            </value>
    </alternativeValue>
</alternativesValues>

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alternativesStrength

Description:

Alternatives’ strength (number of alternatives which are “beaten” by a given alternative).

XMCDA related:

-Tag: alternativesValues

-Code:

                    <alternativesValues mcdaConcept="strength">
                    <alternativeValue>
            <alternativeID>[...]</alternativeID>
            <value>
                    <real>[...]</real>
            </value>
    </alternativeValue>
</alternativesValues>

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alternativesQualification

Description:

Alternatives’ qualification (difference between the strength and the weakness).

XMCDA related:

-Tag: alternativesValues

-Code:

                    <alternativesValues mcdaConcept="qualification">
                    <alternativeValue>
            <alternativeID>[...]</alternativeID>
            <value>
                    <real>[...]</real>
            </value>
    </alternativeValue>
</alternativesValues>

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For further technical details on the web service underlying this program, have a look at its documentation here.