Synthesis of individual best local priority vectors in AHP-group decision making

Applied Soft Computing Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 2045-2056

  Srdjevic, Bojan ^a   Srdjevic, Zorica ^a  

^a University of Novi Sad   (Serbia)

Author keywords

AHP; Best priority vectors; Consistency measures; Group decision making

Indexed keywords

HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; VECTORS;

CONSISTENCY MEASURES; DECISION MAKERS; GROUP DECISION; GROUP DECISION MAKING; MULTI-CRITERIA; PRIORITIZATION; PRIORITY VECTOR; RELATED ALGORITHMS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84884595736     PISSN: 15684946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2012.11.010     Document Type: Article

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