A heuristic approach for deriving the priority vector in AHP

Applied Mathematical Modelling

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 5828-5836

  Lin, Changsheng ^a,b   Kou, Gang ^a   Ergu, Daji ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b YANGTZE NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY FOR NATIONALITIES   (China)

Author keywords

Analytic Hierarchy Process; Frobenius norm; Nearest consistent matrix; Pair wise comparison matrix; Priority vector

Indexed keywords

CONSISTENT MATRICES; FEEDBACK PROCESS; FROBENIUS NORM; HEURISTIC APPROACH; LEVEL OF CONSISTENCIES; LOGARITHMIC TRANSFORMATIONS; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; PAIR-WISE COMPARISON; PRIORITY VECTOR;

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; HEURISTIC METHODS; ITERATIVE METHODS;

LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS;

EID: 84874561865     PISSN: 0307904X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apm.2012.11.023     Document Type: Article

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