ÉLECTRE

ÉLECTRE is a family of multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) methods that originated in Europe in the mid-1960s.

The acronym ÉLECTRE stands for: ÉLimination Et Choix Traduisant la REalité ("Elimination and Choice Translating Reality").

[5] Roy is widely recognized as the father of the ELECTRE method, which was one of the earliest approaches in what is sometimes known as the French school of decision making.

There are two main parts to an ELECTRE application: first, the construction of one or several outranking relations, which aims at comparing in a comprehensive way each pair of actions; second, an exploitation procedure that elaborates on the recommendations obtained in the first phase.

Criteria in ELECTRE methods have two distinct sets of parameters: the importance coefficients and the veto thresholds.