Correcting illegitimate rank reversals: Proper adjustment of criteria weights prevent alleged AHP intransitivity

Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis

Volumn 15, Issue 5-6, 2008, Pages 135-141

  Wijnmalen, Diederik J D ^a   Wedley, William C ^b  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Analytic hierarchy process (AHP); Commensurability; Independence axiom; Rank reversal; Weight adjustment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870355920     PISSN: 10579214     EISSN: 10991360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mcda.431     Document Type: Article

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