Mapping verbal responses to numerical scales in the analytic hierarchy process

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 46-55

  Liang, Liang ^a   Wang, Guohua ^a   Hua, Zhongsheng ^a   Zhang, Bin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Analytic hierarchy process; Mapping; Numerical scale; Verbal responses

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; MAPPING; NUMERICAL METHOD;

EID: 38349086454     PISSN: 00380121     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2005.10.006     Document Type: Article

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