Judgment number reduction: An issue in the analytic hierarchy process

International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 175-189

  Wu, Long Ting ^a   Cui, Xia ^b   Dai, Ru Wei ^b  

^a ZHONGNAN UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND LAW   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

Author keywords

AHP; Decision making; Judgment number reduction; Statistical modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951679834     PISSN: 02196220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219622010003683     Document Type: Article

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