RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 Using Different Qualitative Scales in a Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Procedure A1 González del Pozo, Raquel A1 Dias, Luis C. A1 García Lapresta, José Luis K1 Análisis de criterios múltiples K1 Multiple criteria analysis AB Many decision problems manage linguistic information assessed through several ordered qualitative scales. In these contexts, the main problem arising is how to aggregate this qualitative information. In this paper, we present a multi-criteria decision-making procedure that ranks a set of alternatives assessed by means of a specific ordered qualitative scale for each criterion. These ordered qualitative scales can be non-uniform and be formed by a different number of linguistic terms. The proposed procedure follows an ordinal approach by means of the notion of ordinal proximity measure that assigns an ordinal degree of proximity to each pair of linguistic terms of the qualitative scales. To manage the ordinal degree of proximity from different ordered qualitative scales, we provide a homogenization process. We also introduce a stochastic approach to assess the robustness of the conclusions. PB MDPI YR 2020 FD 2020 LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/40693 UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/40693 LA eng NO Mathematics 2020, 8(3), 458 NO Producción Científica DS UVaDOC RD 24-nov-2024