“…The problem of pairwise comparison appears in various fields and scientists coming from very different areas have worked on this topic: mathematicians (Moon, 1968;Moon and Pullman, 1970;Monjardet, 1978;Reid and Beneke, 1978;Maybee and Pullman, 1990;Saary, 1994), statisticians (Kendall and Smith, 1940;David, 1963), social scientists (Fishburn, 1974(Fishburn, , 1977Moulin, 1983;Young, 1988), decision scientists (Roy and BOUYSSOU, 1992) and psychologists (Saaty, 1977). In this very extensive landscape we can make distinctions about both the nature of the data involved and the nature of the question raised.…”