alternativesRankingViaQualificationDistillation

SOAP service’s name:
Version:	1.1
Provider:	ITTB
	`alternativesRankingViaQualificationDistillation-ITTB` (see SOAP requests for details)

Description

This web service computes rankings on the alternatives by distillation of alternatives’ qualification. Compared to the web service alternativesRankingViaQualificationDistillation, this web service requires a non-valued or a 0-1 valued outranking relation as input. The partial ranking (intersectionDistillation) is obtained by taking the intersection of upwards and downwards distillation preorders (which are also provided).

Contact: Dhouha Kbaier (dhouha.kbaier@telecom-bretagne.eu)

Inputs

(For outputs, see below)

alternatives

A list of alternatives. Alternatives can be activated or desactivated via the <active> tag (true or false). By default (no <active> tag), alternatives are considered as active.

The input value should be a valid XMCDA document whose main tag is <alternatives>. It must have the following form:

<alternatives>
    <alternative>
        <active>[...]</active>
        [...]
    </alternative>
    [...]
</alternatives>

outrankingRelation

A non-valued relation or a 0-1 valued outranking relation. A numeric <value> indicates a the valuation for each <pair> of the relation.

The input value should be a valid XMCDA document whose main tag is <alternativesComparisons>. It must have the following form:

<alternativesComparisons>
    <pairs>
        <pair>
            <initial>
                <alternativeID>[...]</alternativeID>
            </initial>
            <terminal>
                <alternativeID>[...]</alternativeID>
            </terminal>
            <value>
                <real>[...]</real>
            </value>
        </pair>

        [...]
    </pairs>
</alternativesComparisons>

Outputs

intersectionDistillation

An <alternativesComparisons> containing the partial preorder obtained by taking the intersection of the downwards and upwards distillation preorders.

The returned value is a XMCDA document whose main tag is <alternativesComparisons>. It has the following form:

<alternativesComparisons mcdaConcept="Intersection distillation">
    <pairs>
        <pair>
            <initial>
                <alternativeID>[...]</alternativeID>
            </initial>
            <terminal>
                <alternativeID>[...]</alternativeID>
            </terminal>
        </pair>
        [...]
    </pairs>
</alternativesComparisons>

downwardsDistillation

Alternatives’ ranks in the downwards distillation preorder.

The returned value is a XMCDA document whose main tag is <alternativesValues>. It has the following form:

                    <alternativesValues mcdaConcept="Downwards distillation">
                    <alternativeValue>
            <alternativeID>[...]</alternativeID>
            <value>
                    <real>[...]</real>
            </value>
    </alternativeValue>
</alternativesValues>

upwardsDistillation

Alternatives’ ranks in the upwards distillation preorder.

The returned value is a XMCDA document whose main tag is <alternativesValues>. It has the following form:

                    <alternativesValues mcdaConcept="Upwards distillation">
                    <alternativeValue>
            <alternativeID>[...]</alternativeID>
            <value>
                    <real>[...]</real>
            </value>
    </alternativeValue>
</alternativesValues>

messages

A list of messages generated by the algorithm.

The returned value is a XMCDA document whose main tag is <methodMessages>.

Original xml description

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