Some issues on multiplicative consistency of interval reciprocal relations

International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1043-1065

  Xia, Meimei ^a   Xu, Zeshui ^a  

^a Southeast University   (China)

Author keywords

Group decision making; incomplete interval reciprocal relation; interval reciprocal relation; multiplicative consistent; perfect multiplicative consistent

Indexed keywords

EID: 82455192435     PISSN: 02196220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219622011004701     Document Type: Article

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