A sensitivity analysis approach for some deterministic multi-criteria decision-making methods

Decision Sciences

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 151-194

  Triantaphyllou, Evangelos ^a   Sánchez, Alfonso ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Sunflower Networking Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytic hierarchy process; Deterministic decision making; Multi criteria decision making; Sensitivity analysis; Weighted product model; Weighted sum model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041048898     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5915.1997.tb01306.x     Document Type: Article

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