Patent Document ID: 20060241950
Application ID: 10561370
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A decision support method comprising: for two or more pre-defined criteria, each criterion associated with one or more pre-defined and ordinally ranked categories, performing a comparative assessment of profiles each profile comprising a set of two or more of the criteria, each criterion in the set instantiated with one of the categories for that criterion, wherein the comparative assessment comprises the ordinal pairwise ranking of profile pairs, the ordinal pairwise ranking of profile pairs comprising: generating undominated profile pairs; presenting undominated profile pairs to a decision maker for ordinal pairwise ranking; receiving from the decision maker an ordinal ranking of the profiles in each profile pair presented; and identifying profile pairs that are implicitly ordinally pairwise ranked as corollaries of ordinal pairwise rankings performed and excluding them from subsequent presentation to the decision maker; the decision support method further comprising: solving a system of equalities/inequalities that represents the ordinal pairwise rankings to obtain at least one output.