POTENTIAL METHOD APPLIED ON EXACT DATA

Although PM was basically created to treat subjective comparisons, given exact values can be converted to Potential Method flow. A new feature of PM is a parameter called FlowNorm which helps to treat problems where each criterion has its own measurement scale. Complex hierarchial structures and problems modelled by decision tables can be handled. Incomplete data, such as incomplete belief, is considered as well. To illustrate the flexibility and universality of PM we compare it with PROMETHEE and Yang’s Evidential Reasoning method.