DEPENDENCE OF MULTI-CRITERIA EVALUATION RESULT ON CHOICE OF PREFERENCE FUNCTIONS AND THEIR PARAMETERS
研究了PROMETHEE方法中偏好函数及其参数的选择如何影响评价结果，并提出了新的偏好函数类型，对使用多准则方法分析社会经济现象的学者有参考价值。
Abstract A considerable usage increase of multicriteria methods is recently observed in the area of quantitative analysis of social or economical phenomena. The PROMETHEE methods are discerned from other multi‐criteria methods by depth of their intrinsic logic and by using preference functions, which make up a foundation of the methods. Shapes of functions and their parameters are chosen by decision‐makers thus exerting clear advantages and features of the methods. This paper reveals influence of the choice of preference functions and their parameters on the outcome of evaluation. Along with already recently described by the authors PROMETHEE I method the other PROMETHEE II method is described and examples of its application are provided. New types of preference functions were proposed.