Data envelopment analysis for weight derivation and aggregation in the analytic hierarchy process

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1289-1307

  Ramanathan, Ramakrishnan ^a  

^a SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Analytic hierarchy process; Data envelopment analysis; Independence of irrelevant alternatives

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; WEIGHING;

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; INDEPENDENCE OF IRRELEVANT ALTERNATIVES;

DATA REDUCTION;

EID: 26444618123     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2004.09.020     Document Type: Article

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