An extension of the AHP dummy pivot modeling applied to the restructuring of the iron and steel industry in China

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 370-380

  Zhu, Keyu ^a,b   Cooper, Orrin ^c   Yang, Shan Lin ^a,b   Dong, Qing Xing ^d,e  

^a HEFEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^d NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e CENTRAL CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Analytical hierarchy network process; decision analysis; iron and steel industry; orders of magnitude approach of the analytic hierarchy process (OM AHP); structural readjustment

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; COMPETITION; DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; STEELMAKING;

ANALYTICAL HIERARCHIES; COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING PROBLEMS; ORDERS-OF-MAGNITUDE; PRODUCTION EFFICIENCY; STRUCTURAL READJUSTMENT; UNCERTAIN ENVIRONMENTS;

IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY;

EID: 84899632930     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2014.2305662     Document Type: Article

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