The consistency adjustment problem of AHP pairwise comparison matrices

Quantitative Marketing and Marketing Management: Marketing Models and Methods in Theory and Practice

Volumn 9783834937223, Issue , 2012, Pages 51-62

  Gastes, Dominic ^a   Gaul, Wolfgang ^b  

^a TRUMPF LASER UND SYSTEMTECHNIK GMBH   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Analytic Hierarchy Process; Consistency Improvement; Pairwise Comparison Matrices

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930699909     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-8349-3722-3_2     Document Type: Chapter

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