Nonlinear programming applied to the reduction of inconsistency in the AHP method

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 229, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 635-655

  Pereira, Valdecy ^a   Costa, Helder Gomes ^a  

^a FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Analytic hierarchy process; Decision analysis; Inconsistency; Nonlinear programming

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027941255     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-014-1750-z     Document Type: Article

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