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The purpose of this paper is to study how the consideration of several criteria, as opposed to a more traditional mono-criterion approach, helps the modelling of imprecision, uncertainty and inaccurate determination (I.U.I.D.) in a decision-aid study. After a brief review of the main sources of inaccurate determination, uncertainty and imprecision that arises in a decision-aid situation, we show that the use of multiple criteria allows to build partial preference structures, to discuss in a powerful way the precision of the evaluation on each criteria and to create a clear language between the actors via the use of the evaluation tableau. We argue that this proves useful in dealing with I.U.I.D.
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Bouyssou, D. (1989). Modelling Inaccurate Determination, Uncertainty, Imprecision Using Multiple Criteria. In: Lockett, A.G., Islei, G. (eds) Improving Decision Making in Organisations. Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, vol 335. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-49298-3_8
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