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Multi-criteria Decision making using Preference Ranking Organization

Method of Enrichment Evaluation (PROMETHEE II)

The PROMETHEE method is a multi-criteria decision making method of outranking

nature, i.e.it permits building of an outranking between different alternatives. There are 5

versions of PROMETHEE, 1-5 and the current developed code is for PROMETHEE-2.

PROMETHEE-2 is based on a preference function approach. Mathematically, this

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(a,b) depends on the pairwise difference d

between the evaluations f

P in the figures above represent the preference function P

(a,b). Similarly, n represents the

indifference threshold that represents the largest number that is considered negligible by the

decision maker when comparing alternatives and m represents smallest difference that

justifies a strict preference for one of the two alternatives.

The multi-criterion preference index π (a,b), a weighted average of the preference functions

for all the criterion is defined as

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the problem uniformly in maximization perspective. i.e., (-min) =max.

In the sheet 1 of promethee.xlsx file, payoff matrix should be entered. A built-in template is

created in the sheet1 itself, requiring the user to enter only the values as shown in the figure.

In the sheet 2 of Promethee.xlsx file, the Criterion Data are to be entered. Similar to sheet 1, a

built-in template is created as shown in the figure. The second column the weights are to be

entered. Normalising of the weights need not be done. The Criterion Function index number

is to be entered in the third column. This criterion function index number represents which

the same format as shown in the figures above. The ‘Solution.xlsx’ which contains the output

data must be cleared of its numerical data, if any, before running the GUI.