On Saaty's and Koczkodaj's inconsistencies of pairwise comparison matrices

Journal of Global Optimization

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 157-175

  Bozóki, Sándor ^a   Rapcsák, Tamás ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Inconsistency; Inconsistency index; Pairwise comparison matrix; Randomly generated pairwise comparison matrix

Indexed keywords

KETONES; PROBLEM SOLVING;

INCONSISTENCY; INCONSISTENCY INDEX; PAIRWISE COMPARISON MATRICES; PAIRWISE COMPARISON MATRIX; RANDOMLY GENERATED PAIRWISE COMPARISON MATRIX;

MATRIX ALGEBRA;

EID: 51249109081     PISSN: 09255001     EISSN: 15732916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10898-007-9236-z     Document Type: Article

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