The possibility of group welfare functions

International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 167-176

  Saaty, Thomas L ^a   Vargas, Luis G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytic hierarchy process; Geometric mean; Possibility; Social welfare function; Synthesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746185600     PISSN: 02196220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219622005001453     Document Type: Article

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