A Monte Carlo study of pairwise comparison

Information Processing Letters

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 25-29

  Herman, Michael W ^a   Koczkodaj, Waldemar W ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Experts' opinions; Inconsistency analysis; Knowledge acquisition; Monte carlo method; Pairwise comparisons; Solution accuracy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012887443     PISSN: 00200190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0020-0190(95)00185-9     Document Type: Article

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