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Recent Advances in Business Analytics. Selected papers of the 2021 KNOWCON-NSAIS workshop on Business Analytics

Annals of Computer Science and Information Systems, Volume 29

Interval-valued semantic differential in multiple criteria and multi-expert evaluation context: possible benefits and application areas

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15439/2021B3

Citation: Recent Advances in Business Analytics. Selected papers of the 2021 KNOWCON-NSAIS workshop on Business Analytics, Jan Stoklasa, Pasi Luukka and Maria Ganzha (eds). ACSIS, Vol. 29, pages 53–61 ()

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Abstract. The paper discusses the possibilities of adapting therecently introduced interval-valued semantic differential methodto the multiple-criteria decision-making and evaluation context.It focuses on the differences and common ground of the intendeduse of the original semantic differentiation method and generalmultiple-criteria evaluation problems. The paper identifies theaspects of the interval-valued modification of the method thatcan be useful in multiple-criteria evaluation and also aspectsthat can be beneficial in the multi-expert evaluation settingand also possible limitations stemming from the transition tothe multiple-criteria (or multi-expert) evaluation context. Finallythe paper suggests potential application areas for the (interval-valued) semantic differential based methods.

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