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Assessing the value of a candidate

A qualitative possibilistic approach

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Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning and Uncertainty (ECSQARU 1999)

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The problem of assessing the value of a candidate is viewed here as a multiple combination problem. On the one hand a candidate can be evaluated according to different criteria, and on the other hand several experts are supposed to assess the value of candidates according to each criterion. Criteria are not equally important, experts are not equally competent or reliable. Moreover levels of satisfaction of criteria, or levels of confidence are only assumed to take their values in qualitative scales which are just linearly ordered. The problem is discussed within the framework of possibility theory which offers a qualitative setting for handling it.

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  1. Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT) - CNRS Université Paul Sabatier, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062, Toulouse Cedex 4, France

    Didier Dubois & Henri Prade

  2. Corporate Research Laboratory, Thomson-CSF, Domaine de Corbeville, 91404, Orsay, France

    Michel Grabisch

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University College London, Gower Street, WC1E 6BT, London, UK

    Anthony Hunter

  2. Department of Electronic Engineering, University of London, Queen Mary and Westfield College, E1 4NS, London, UK

    Simon Parsons

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Dubois, D., Grabisch, M., Prade, H. (1999). Assessing the value of a candidate. In: Hunter, A., Parsons, S. (eds) Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning and Uncertainty. ECSQARU 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1638. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48747-6_13

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