In this article, we argue that the term “sorting” (in MCDA), although established within a well-defined community, is unappropriate for linguistic, scientific and pragmatic reasons. We present and discuss such reasons and we suggest the use of the term “rating”, since fitting better both the foundational part of this class of methods and the necessity to improve the visibility of our community.

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评级或排序：术语很重要

在本文中，我们认为术语“排序”（在 MCDA 中）虽然是在定义明确的社区内建立的，但出于语言、科学和实用的原因是不合适的。我们提出并讨论了这些原因，我们建议使用“评级”一词，因为更适合此类方法的基础部分以及提高我们社区知名度的必要性。