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The SRF deck-of-cards procedure is widely recognized as an intuitive method for eliciting criteria weights in outranking Multi-Criteria Decision Aiding methods. However, its numerous extensions, covering imprecise or fuzzy inputs, robustness analysis, hierarchical criteria structures, and diverse communication protocols, have developed independently.
Although these variants share the same underlying deck-of-cards mechanism and are, in principle, mutually compatible, the literature offers little guidance on how to combine them coherently or design new SRF configurations for a given decision context. This paper fills that gap by introducing a modular SRF framework that decomposes existing and new methods into a set of interoperable building blocks. To operationalize this framework, we present a browser-based software, which integrates a guided questionnaire to support component selection for novice and expert users alike. The resulting system not only improves methodological clarity and robustness but also offers a practical environment for experimentation, education, and methodological innovation in MCDA.
| Keywords | Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding; SRF method; Deck-of-Cards Method; consistency restoration; weight elicitation |
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