Efficient interpretive ranking process incorporating implicit and transitive dominance relationships

Interpretive ranking process (IRP) is a multi-criteria decision making method based on paired comparison in an interpretive manner. Due to paired comparisons, the number of interpretations to be made for n ranking variables are $n(n-1)/2 to establish dominance with respect to each reference variable or criterion. IRP is a knowledge intensive method and thus a large number of comparisons poses a limitation on the number of rankling as well as...