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Building the Additive Utility Functions for CAD-UFRJ Evaluation Staff Criteria

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This paper presents an application of the UTA method for building utility functions for the evaluation criteria defined by the Staff Evaluation Commission (CAD) of the Rio de Janeiro Federal University (UFRJ). Every year, the CAD-UFRJ gives the staff evaluation results for each Postgraduate Engineering Programme. However, the method used to generate the staff evaluation is assumed unknown. Trying to find the CAD-UFRJ preference structure, the evaluation results supplied by CAD-UFRJ are used to apply the UTA method. Some additional information obtained from the CAD-UFRJ data is incorporated in the optimal solutions analysis.

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González-Araya, M.C., Rangel, L.A.D., Lins, M.P.E. et al. Building the Additive Utility Functions for CAD-UFRJ Evaluation Staff Criteria. Annals of Operations Research 116, 271–288 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1021396717667

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