Convergence properties and practical estimation of the probability of rank reversal in pairwise comparisons for multi-criteria decision making problems

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 241, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 458-468

  Dede, Georgia ^a,b   Kamalakis, Thomas ^b   Sphicopoulos, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Decision analysis; Multiple criteria analysis; Pairwise comparisons; Uncertainty modeling

Indexed keywords

DECISION THEORY; MATRIX ALGEBRA; SCALES (WEIGHING INSTRUMENTS); UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CONVERGENCE PROPERTIES; MULTI CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING PROBLEMS; MULTIPLE CRITERIA ANALYSIS; PAIR-WISE COMPARISON; PAIRWISE COMPARISON MATRICES; UNCERTAINTY MODELING; WEIGHT ESTIMATION METHODS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84911004537     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2014.08.037     Document Type: Article

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