Defining the Borda count in a linguistic decision making context

  • Authors:
  • J. L. García-Lapresta;M. Martínez-Panero;L. C. Meneses

  • Affiliations:
  • Departamento de Economía Aplicada, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Universidad de Valladolid, Avda. Valle de Esgueva 6, 47011 Valladolid, Spain;Departamento de Economía Aplicada, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Universidad de Valladolid, Avda. Valle de Esgueva 6, 47011 Valladolid, Spain;Departamento de Economía Aplicada, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Universidad de Valladolid, Avda. Valle de Esgueva 6, 47011 Valladolid, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Information Sciences: an International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Different kinds of decision rules have been successfully implemented under a linguistic approach. This paper aims the same goal for the Borda count, a well-known procedure with some interesting features. In order to this, two ways of extension from the Borda rule to a linguistic framework are proposed taking into account all the agents' opinions or only the favorable ones for each alternative when compared with each other. In the two cases, both individual and collective Borda counts are analyzed, asking for properties as good as those of the original patterns.