A note on the proportionality between some consistency indices in the AHP

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 219, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 7901-7906

  Brunelli, Matteo ^a,b   Critch, Andrew ^c   Fedrizzi, Michele ^d  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Analytic hierarchy process; Consistency indices; Pairwise comparison matrices; Reciprocal relations

Indexed keywords

CONSISTENCY INDEX; PAIRWISE COMPARISON MATRICES; RECIPROCAL RELATIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES;

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS;

EID: 84875937646     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2013.01.036     Document Type: Article

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