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The Indifference Method has two stages: the filtering stage followed by the indifference stage sensu stricto1.

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  1. The Indifference Method was invented by the author: see M. Despontin, J. Moscarola, J. Spronk, A user-oriented listing of multiple criteria decision methods, Revue beige de Statistique, d’Informatique et de Recherche Opérationnelle, vol 23,4, December 1983, 20.

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  2. W. Vickrey, Microstatics, Harcourt and Brace, New York — Chicago, 1964.

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  3. This could also be a reaction against what Scharlig calls “Methods of Partial Aggregation“, such as the several Electre methods, Prométhée, Qualiflex and Oreste (A. Schärlig, Décider surplusieurs critères, Presses Polytechniques Romandes, Lausanne, 1985, 139–231.

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  4. W.K. Brauers, Multiple Criteria Decision Making and the Input-Output Model for National Defense, Belgian Department of National Defense, Brussels, 1977. W.K.Brauers The Indifference Approach in Multiple Criteria Decision Making, Research Paper No 5, University of Antwerp (RUCA), Institute for Developing Countries, 1988. W.K.Brauers Some Principles of Multi-Optimization, Systems Sciences and Engineering, Edited by Cheng Wei-Min, International Academic Publishers and Pergamon, Beijing(Ch.),1988, 678–682. W.K.Brauers, Our Army is awake! (in Dutch: ons leger waakt ! waakt ons leger wel?) de Vries-Brouwers, Antwerp, 1993.

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Brauers, W.K. (2004). The Indifference Method. In: Optimization Methods for a Stakeholder Society. Nonconvex Optimization and Its Applications, vol 73. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9178-2_10

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