Reduction of pairwise comparisons in decision making via a duality approach

Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 299-310

  Triantaphyllou, Evangelos ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Duality; Multi criteria decision making; Pairwise comparisons; The analytic hierarchy process (AHP)

Indexed keywords

EID: 85016805753     PISSN: 10579214     EISSN: 10991360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1099-1360(199911)8:6<299::AID-MCDA253>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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