Bayesian revision of the individual pair-wise comparison matrices under consensus in AHP-GDM

Applied Soft Computing Journal

Volumn 35, Issue , 2015, Pages 802-811

  Lin, Changsheng ^a,c   Kou, Gang ^b  

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

^b SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

^c YANGTZE NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Analytic hierarchy process (AHP); Bayesian revision method; Group decision making (GDM); Lognormal distribution; Pair wise comparison matrix (PCM)

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; CODES (SYMBOLS); HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS (AHP); BAYESIAN; GROUP DECISION MAKING; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PAIR-WISE COMPARISON;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84939651760     PISSN: 15684946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2015.02.041     Document Type: Article

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