Comparison of AHP and Monte Carlo AHP under different levels of uncertainty

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 122-132

  Yaraghi, Niam ^a   Tabesh, Pooya ^b   Guan, Peiqiu ^c   Zhuang, Jun ^c  

^a BROOKINGS INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytic hierarchy process (AHP); Monte Carlo analytic hierarchy process (MCAHP); simulation

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS;

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS (AHP); BODY OF KNOWLEDGE; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS; PAIR-WISE COMPARISON; RANKING OF ALTERNATIVES; SIMULATION; SIMULATION APPROACH; SUBJECTIVE RANKING;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 85027934122     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2014.2360082     Document Type: Article

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