Inconsistency of the judgment matrix in the AHP method and the decision maker's knowledge

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 388, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 907-915

  Szczypińska, Anna ^a   Piotrowski, Edward W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIALYSTOK   (Poland)

Author keywords

AHP method; Decision problems; Ising model; Thermodynamics

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; COSTS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; ISING MODEL; THERMODYNAMICS;

AHP METHOD; ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS (AHP); DECISION MAKERS; DECISION PROBLEMS; JUDGMENT MATRIX; QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATION; TRANSACTION COST;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 58149334772     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2008.11.034     Document Type: Article

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