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US 2006/0241950 A1Published application
Decision support system and method
OwnerPaul Hansen, Franz Omblerinventors
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Abstract
The invention provides a decision support method comprising: for two or more predefined criteria each criterion associated with one or more pre-defined categories, determining a point value for each category on each criterion by the pairwise ranking of profile pairs wherein each profile comprises a set of two or more of the criteria, each criterion in the set instantiated with one of the categories for that criterion. The invention also provides a related system and computer program.
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A decision support method comprising:
- for two or more pre-defined criteria, each criterion associated with one or more pre-defined and ordinally ranked categories, performing a comparative assessment of profiles each profile comprising a set of two or more of the criteria, each criterion in the set instantiated with one of the categories for that criterion, wherein the comparative assessment comprises the ordinal pairwise ranking of profile pairs, the ordinal pairwise ranking of profile pairs comprising:
- generating undominated profile pairs;
- presenting undominated profile pairs to a decision maker for ordinal pairwise ranking;
- receiving from the decision maker an ordinal ranking of the profiles in each profile pair presented;
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- identifying profile pairs that are implicitly ordinally pairwise ranked as corollaries of ordinal pairwise rankings performed and excluding them from subsequent presentation to the decision maker;
- the decision support method further comprising:
- solving a system of equalities/inequalities that represents the ordinal pairwise rankings to obtain at least one output.
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A decision support system comprising:
- two or more pre-defined criteria stored in data memory, each criterion capable of being instantiated with one or more pre-defined and ordinally ranked categories;
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- a processor programmed to perform a comparative assessment of profiles each profile comprising a set of two or more of the criteria, each criterion in the set instantiated with one of the categories for that criterion, wherein the comparative assessment comprises the ordinal pairwise ranking of profile pairs, the ordinal pairwise ranking of profile pairs comprising:
- generating undominated profile pairs;
- presenting undominated profile pairs to a decision maker on a display;
- receiving from the decision maker via an input device an ordinal ranking of the profiles in each profile pair presented on the display;
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- identifying profile pairs that are implicitly ordinally pairwise ranked as corollaries of ordinal pairwise rankings performed and excluding them from subsequent presentation to the decision maker;
- the processor further programmed to solve a system of equalities/inequalities that represents the ordinal pairwise rankings to obtain at least one output.
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A decision support computer program comprising:
- for two or more pre-defined criteria stored in data memory, each criterion capable of being instantiated with one or more pre-defined and ordinally ranked categories, computer executable instructions for performing a method for a comparative assessment of profiles each profile comprising a set of two or more of the criteria, each criterion in the set instantiated with one of the categories for that criterion, wherein the comparative assessment comprises the ordinal pairwise ranking of profile pairs, the ordinal pairwise ranking of profile pairs comprising:
- generating undominated profile pairs;
- presenting undominated profile pairs to a decision maker on a display;
- receiving from the decision maker via an input device an ordinal ranking of the profiles in each profile pair presented on the display;
- and
- identifying profile pairs that are implicitly ordinally pairwise ranked as corollaries of ordinal pairwise rankings performed and excluding them from subsequent presentation to the decision maker;
- the decision support computer program further comprising computer executable instructions for solving a system of equalities/inequalities that represents the ordinal pairwise rankings to obtain at least one output.
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