Building rankings encompassing multiple criteria to support qualitative decision-making

TY - JOUR

T1 - Building rankings encompassing multiple criteria to support qualitative decision-making

AU - Serramia Amoros, Marc

AU - Lopez-Sanchez, Maite

AU - Moretti, Stefano

AU - Rodriguez-Aguilar, Juan A.

N1 - Funding Information: Research supported by projects: COREDEM (H2020-785907); Crowd4SDG (H2020-872944); CI-SUSTAIN (PID2019-104156GB-I00); TAILOR (H2020-952215); COMRDI18-1-0010-02; 2021 SGR 00754; 2021 SGR 000313; THEMIS (ANR-20-CE23-0018); “FairTransNLP-Language: Analysing toxicity and stereotypes in language for unbiased, fair and transparent systems” (PID2021-124361OB-C33) funded by MCIN/AEI /10.13039/501100011033/FEDER,UE; “AUTODEMO: The stealth side of participatory democracy: process preferences towards automated decision-making” code SR21-00329; “VAE: Value-Awareness Engineering” TED2021-131295B-C31 funded by MCIN/AEI / 10.13039/501100011033 and by the European Union NextGenerationEU/PRTR; and VALAWAI project, funded by the European Commission under Grant # 101070930 . Publisher Copyright: © 2023 The Author(s)

PY - 2023/6/15

Y1 - 2023/6/15

N2 - Decision makers are commonly challenged with comparing, and ultimately ranking, elements with regards to the degree to which they satisfy multiple criteria and in terms of their own preferences. This calls for a new decision making framework, which we formally present here. Within such a framework, we present multi-criteria lex-cel: a new method for ranking single elements. Furthermore, we formally establish that our contributions generalise recent results in the social choice literature. We also illustrate our contributions through a case study that poses an ethical decision-making problem.

AB - Decision makers are commonly challenged with comparing, and ultimately ranking, elements with regards to the degree to which they satisfy multiple criteria and in terms of their own preferences. This calls for a new decision making framework, which we formally present here. Within such a framework, we present multi-criteria lex-cel: a new method for ranking single elements. Furthermore, we formally establish that our contributions generalise recent results in the social choice literature. We also illustrate our contributions through a case study that poses an ethical decision-making problem.

KW - Decision support

KW - Computational social choice

KW - Ethical decision making

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85150458304&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1016/j.ins.2023.02.063

DO - 10.1016/j.ins.2023.02.063

M3 - Article

SN - 0020-0255

VL - 631

SP - 288

EP - 304

JO - INFORMATION SCIENCES

JF - INFORMATION SCIENCES

ER -