Enhancing data consistency in decision matrix: Adapting Hadamard model to mitigate judgment contradiction

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 236, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 261-271

  Kou, Gang ^a   Ergu, Daji ^b,c   Shang, Jennifer ^d  

^a SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY FOR NATIONALITIES   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardinal and ordinal inconsistency; Graph theory; Hadamard product induced bias matrix; Multiple criteria analysis; Pairwise comparison matrix

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; GRAPH THEORY;

CARDINAL AND ORDINAL INCONSISTENCY; DECISION MATRICES; HADAMARD PRODUCTS; INNOVATIVE METHOD; MULTIPLE CRITERIA ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION METHOD; PAIR-WISE COMPARISON; PAIRWISE COMPARISON MATRICES;

HADAMARD MATRICES;

EID: 84900597753     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2013.11.035     Document Type: Article

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