Review of the main developments in the analytic hierarchy process

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 14336-14345

  Ishizaka, Alessio ^a   Labib, Ashraf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AHP; Multicriteria decision making; Review

Indexed keywords

AHP; CONSISTENCY INDEX; GROUP DECISION; MATRIX; MULTI CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; PAIR-WISE COMPARISON;

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; DECISION MAKING; SCALES (WEIGHING INSTRUMENTS); SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 79960028738     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.04.143     Document Type: Review

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