Does AHP help us make a choice? An experimental evaluation

Journal of the Operational Research Society

Volumn 62, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1801-1812

  Ishizaka, A ^a   Balkenborg, D ^b   Kaplan, T ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

analytic hierarchy process (AHP); decision analysis; experimental economics; multiple criteria decision aid; validation

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY;

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS (AHP); DECISION MAKERS; DECISION PROBLEMS; EXPERIMENTAL ECONOMICS; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION AID; PAIR-WISE COMPARISON; VALIDATION;

HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 80051862760     PISSN: 01605682     EISSN: 14769360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jors.2010.158     Document Type: Review

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