Two new methods for deriving the priority vector from interval multiplicative preference relations

Information Fusion

Volumn 26, Issue , 2015, Pages 122-135

  Meng, Fanyong ^a,b   Chen, Xiaohong ^a   Zhu, Mingxun ^a   Lin, Jian ^c  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b QINGDAO TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

AHP; Decision analysis; Eigenvalue method; Interval multiplicative preference relation; Row geometric mean method

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; DECISION THEORY; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS;

AHP; ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS (AHP); CONVEX COMBINATION METHOD; EIGENVALUE METHODS; GEOMETRIC MEAN METHOD; MULTIPLICATIVE PREFERENCE RELATIONS; PREFERENCE RELATION; PRIORITY WEIGHTS;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 84939938676     PISSN: 15662535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.inffus.2014.12.002     Document Type: Article

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