A stochastic AHP decision making methodology for imprecise preferences

Information Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue , 2014, Pages 192-203

  Jalao, Eugene Rex ^b   Wu, Teresa ^a   Shunk, Dan ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES   (Philippines)

Author keywords

AHP; Beta Distribution; Imprecise Pairwise Comparisons; Inconsistency; Non linear programming

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; DECISION MAKING; FUZZY SETS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

AHP; ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS (AHP); BETA DISTRIBUTIONS; DECISION MAKING METHODOLOGY; INCONSISTENCY; LEVEL OF CONSISTENCIES; PAIR-WISE COMPARISON; STOCHASTIC PREFERENCES;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EID: 84898544203     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2014.02.077     Document Type: Article

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