Numerical scales generated individually for analytic hierarchy process

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 229, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 654-662

  Dong, Yucheng ^a   Hong, Wei Chiang ^b   Xu, Yinfeng ^a   Yu, Shui ^c  

^a Department of Management Science and System Science   (China)

^b ORIENTAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

AHP 2 Tuple linguistic representation model; Decision analysis; Numerical scale

Indexed keywords

2-TUPLE LINGUISTIC; 2-TUPLE LINGUISTIC REPRESENTATION MODELS; ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS (AHP); INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERISTICS; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING MODEL; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; NUMERICAL SCALE; PAIR-WISE COMPARISON;

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS;

NUMERICAL MODELS;

EID: 84877699651     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2013.03.019     Document Type: Article

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