Multicriteria group decision making: Optimal priority synthesis from pairwise comparisons

Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications

Volumn 130, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 317-339

  Sun, L ^a   Greenberg, B S ^b  

^a Catholic University of America   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytic hierarchy process; Multicriteria group decision making; Nonlinear optimization; Simultaneous linear equations; Weighted least squares

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

ERROR CRITERION; ERROR STRUCTURES; HYBRID APPROACH; MULTI-CRITERIA GROUP DECISION MAKINGS; NON-LINEAR OPTIMIZATION; OPTIMISATIONS; PAIR-WISE COMPARISON; PRIORITY METHOD; SIMULTANEOUS LINEAR EQUATION; WEIGHTED LEAST-SQUARES;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

EID: 33845610524     PISSN: 00223239     EISSN: 15732878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10957-006-9107-7     Document Type: Article

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