Using an Ordinal Outranking Method Supporting the Acquisition of Military Equipment

Abstract

In some acquisition procedures of military equipment there are no crisp data available and/or no willingness to provide quantitative data. This might often occur in an early stage of the procedure, but might also be a characteristic of the qualitative nature of some or all the criteria involved in the assessment of the alternative equipments to be selected or ranked. In such a case we propose the use of an ordinal outranking method of the "ORESTE" type, which requires only ordinal data and rankings of criteria according to their importance. We discuss how to use such a method in the context of an acquisition procedure of military equipment, and how to conduct the incomparability analysis. A visualization of the incomparabilities and of the total and partial rankings is presented.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2009
Accession Number
ADA568304

Entities

People

  • Hugo Pastijn
  • Jan Leysen

Organizations

  • Royal Military Academy

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Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Acquisition
  • Classification
  • Enlisted Personnel
  • Hierarchies
  • Human Resources
  • Information Operations
  • Instructions
  • Intensity
  • Military Equipment
  • Military Personnel
  • Quadrants
  • Specialists
  • Standards
  • Systems Analysis
  • Two Dimensional

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