SurrogateWeights

criteria_ranking

Criteria Values listing full ranking of criteria.

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

<criteriaValues mcdaConcept="Importance" name="ranking">
        <criterionValue>
                <criterionID>c01</criterionID>
                <value>
                        <integer>1</integer>
                </value>
        </criterionValue>
        <criterionValue>
                <criterionID>c02</criterionID>
                <value>
                        <integer>3</integer>
                </value>
        </criterionValue>
        <criterionValue>
                <criterionID>c03</criterionID>
                <value>
                        <integer>2</integer>
                </value>
        </criterionValue>
        </criteriaValues>

method_parameters

PrometheeSurrogateWeigts module creates weights for criteria using several methods. In this parameter you can choose this method.

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

<methodParameters>
  <parameter name="method">
    <value>
      <label>%1</label>
    </value>
  </parameter>
</methodParameters>

where:

• %1 is a parameter named “method”. It can have the following values:

  • equal_weights: Equal weights - return equal weight for each criterion
  • rank_sum: Rank sum - provides normalized weights from the relationship between the ranking position of the criterion and the sum of ranks.
  • rank_reciprocal: Reciprocal of the Ranks - This method uses the reciprocal of the ranks which are normalized by dividing each term by the sum of the reciprocals.
  • rank_ordered_centroid: Rank-Order Centroid - This method uses the vertices from the simplex to define the centroid weight for the criteria.

  The default value is item0.

weights

Weights for each criterion

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

messages

Messages or errors generated by this module.

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