! BestWorst method for Multi-criteria problems.
We want to decide how much weight to give to each of several criteria.
We identify two reference criteria: Best and Worst.
We have pairwise comparisions of the importance of all other criteria
with these two references. ;

! Keywords: BestWorst method, MCDM, Multi-criteria;
! Ref:
 Rezaei, J.(2016) "Best-worst multi-criteria decision-making method: Some properties and a linear model"
 Omega,Vol 64, pp. 126-130;
SETS:
 Criteria: aB, aW, W;
ENDSETS
DATA: IBest = 2; ! index of Best; IWrst = 5; ! Index of Worst; aB = 2 1 4 2 8; ! Ranking relative to Best; aW = 4 8 2 4 1; ! Ranking relative to Worst; ENDDATA Min = Xi; ! Compare to Best; @FOR( Criteria( j): ! We want | W(IBest)/ W( j) - aB( j)| <= Xi, rewrite as; W( IBest) - aB( j)* W( j) <= Xi * W( j); aB( j)* W( j) - W( IBest) <= Xi * W( j); ); ! Compare to Worst; @FOR( Criteria( j): ! We want | W( j) / W( IWorst) - aW( j)| <= Xi, rewrite as; W( j) - aW( j)* W( IWrst) <= Xi * W( IWrst); W( j) - aW( j)* W( IWrst) <= Xi * W( IWrst); ); ! Weights must sum to 1; @SUM( Criteria( j): W( j) ) = 1;