Journal of Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences
Volume 2007 (2007), Article ID 20489, 18 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2007/20489
A Hybrid Distance-Based Ideal-Seeking Consensus Ranking Model
1Management Department, School of Business, La Salle University, 1900 West Olney Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19141, USA
2Management Department, School of Business La Salle University, 1900 West Olney Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19141, USA
Received 1 December 2006; Revised 11 March 2007; Accepted 23 April 2007
Academic Editor: Mahyar A. Amouzegar
Copyright © 2007 Madjid Tavana et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Ordinal consensus ranking problems have received much attention in
the management science literature. A problem arises in situations where a group of