On the proper interpretation and impact of the AHP axiom of independence in single-criterion and multiple-criteria problems

Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 259-266

  Hauser, David ^a   Peniwati, Kirti ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b PPM Institute of Management   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Analytic hierarchy process; Clustering; Decision making; Multicriteria decision making

Indexed keywords

EID: 35648953484     PISSN: 10579214     EISSN: 10991360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1360(199612)5:4<259::AID-MCDA117>3.0.CO;2-L     Document Type: Article

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