Abstract
During his career each officer of the Portuguese Navy is evaluated on average twice each year by his superior commander, always according to the same set of military attributes. This information will be taken into account when considering officers for promotion.
In this paper we try to formalize a methodology for aggregating the informations for each officer and for ranking officers according to their performances. It has the peculiarlity of combining MAUT and Outranking MCDA approaches and it is suitable for dealing with situations of incomplete inter-attribute preference information.
In section 1 we describe the problem. Section 2 deals with the analysis of the characteristics of the evaluation process, the identification of the main constraints for preference modeling and aggregation. The synthesis of the existing information is the subject of Section 3, where we apply the so-called “Outweigh Analysis” combined with the “distillation procedure” of the ELECTRE III method.
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Bana e Costa, C.A., Dinis das Neves, C.F. (1989). Describing and Formalizing the Evaluation Process of Portuguese Navy Officers. In: Lockett, A.G., Islei, G. (eds) Improving Decision Making in Organisations. Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, vol 335. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-49298-3_33
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