Further Discussions on Induced Bias Matrix Model for the Pair-Wise Comparison Matrix

Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications

Volumn 161, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 980-993

  Ergu, Daji ^a,b   Kou, Gang ^a   Fülöp, János ^c   Shi, Yong ^d,e  

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

^b SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY FOR NATIONALITIES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

^e INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Analytic network process (ANP); Inconsistency identification; Reciprocal pairwise comparison matrix (RPCM); The induced bias matrix model (IBMM)

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC NETWORK; ANALYTIC NETWORK PROCESS; COMPARISON MATRIX; INCONSISTENCY IDENTIFICATION; MATRIX; NETWORK PROCESS; PAIRWISE COMPARISON MATRIXES; RECIPROCAL PAIRWISE COMPARISON MATRIX; THE INDUCED BIAS MATRIX MODEL;

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS;

EID: 84901502568     PISSN: 00223239     EISSN: 15732878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10957-012-0223-2     Document Type: Article

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