The DS/AHP method under partial information about criteria and alternatives by several levels of criteria

International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 307-326

  Utkin, Lev V ^a   Simanova, Natalia V ^a  

^a SAINT PETERSBURG STATE FOREST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

analytic hierarchy process; DempsterShafer theory; group decision making; linear programming; Multi criteria decision problem; pairwise comparison

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862088266     PISSN: 02196220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219622012400044     Document Type: Article

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