On consistency and ranking of alternatives in fuzzy AHP

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 102-113

  Leung, L C ^a   Cao, D ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; DECISION THEORY; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; CONSISTENCY; TOLERANCE DEVIATION;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 0034230856     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-2217(99)00118-6     Document Type: Article

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