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<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD JATS (Z39.96) Journal Publishing DTD v1.0 20120330//EN" "JATS-journalpublishing1.dtd"><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" article-type="research-article"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">INFORMATICA</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Informatica</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">0868-4952</issn><issn pub-type="ppub">0868-4952</issn><publisher><publisher-name>VU</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">INF12107</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3233/INF-2001-12107</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Method for Approximation of Diverse Individual Sorting Rules</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Petrovsky</surname><given-names>Alexey</given-names></name><email xlink:href="mailto:pab@isa.ru">pab@isa.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000"/></contrib><aff id="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000">Institute for Systems Analysis, Russian Academy of Sciences, Prospect 60 Let Octyabrya 9, 117312 Moscow, Russia</aff></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>01</day><month>01</month><year>2001</year></pub-date><volume>12</volume><issue>1</issue><fpage>109</fpage><lpage>118</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>01</day><month>01</month><year>2001</year></date></history><abstract><p>This paper considers the technique to construct the general decision rule for the contradictory expert classification of objects which are described with many qualitative attributes. This approach is based on the theory of multiset metric spaces, and allows to classify a collection of multi-attribute objects and define the classification rule which approximates the set of individual sorting rules.</p></abstract><kwd-group><label>Keywords</label><kwd>multi-attribute objects</kwd><kwd>classification</kwd><kwd>sorting rules</kwd><kwd>multiset metric spaces</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>