From: JoachimPimiskern@web.de   
      
   jasonjeffreyjones@gmail.com schrieb:   
   > Assume we have a set of unordered items, e.g. [e,c,a,d,f,b].  There   
   > exists some true ordering (e.g. [a,b,c,d,e,f]) but it is unknown to   
   > us.   
      
   You need to find a real number vector that assigns a number to   
   each of the items, so that the common <= relation corresponds   
   as much as possible to your fuzzy data. This is an optimization   
   problem which can be approximated e.g. by evolutionary algorithms.   
      
   Regards,   
   Joachim   
      
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