A new linear programming method for weights generation and group decision making in the analytic hierarchy process

Group Decision and Negotiation

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 233-254

  Hosseinian, Seyed Saeed ^a   Navidi, Hamidreza ^a   Hajfathaliha, Abas ^a  

^a SHAHED UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Analytic hierarchy process; Data envelopment analysis; Fitting performance; Group decision making; Interval importance weight; Relative importance weight

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859539072     PISSN: 09262644     EISSN: 15729907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10726-009-9182-x     Document Type: Article

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