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Paper results for keyword: Rank reversal

Addressing with brevity criticism of the Analytic Hierarchy Process

Thomas Saaty, Luis Vargas, Rozann Whitaker
Journal: International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process
The paper provides an overview that covers the main criticisms of the AHP and the authors replies to them. Because there have been many papers that reply to criticisms, the thrust here is to classify them and reply to them briefly in each category without giving lengthy repetitions of what is alr...

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An essay on rank preservation and reversal

Thomas Saaty, Mujgan Sagir Ozdemir
Journal: Mathematical and Computer Modelling
Rank preservation and reversal, so fundamental in decision making, have been an unresolved issue in the field of economics and utility theory and came into focus when the Analytic Hierarchy Process was developed because it uses paired comparisons that inevitably make the priorities of the alterna...

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Rank from comparisons and from ratings in the Analytic Hierarchy/Network Processes

Thomas Saaty
Journal: European Journal of Operational Research
Rank preservation and reversal are important subjects in multi-criteria decision-making particularly if a theory uses only one of two ways of creating priorities: rating alternatives one at a time with respect to an ideal or standard, or comparing them in pairs. It is known that our minds can do ...

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Rank Generation, Preservation, and Reversal in the Analytic Hierarchy Decision Process

Thomas Saaty
Journal: Decision sciences
Decision making has the objective of finding the best alternative or set of alternatives by considering a number of goals, objectives, criteria, competitors, and other important factors. The analytic hierarchy process is a decision aid used to assist a decision maker in sorting out the complexity...

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The legitimacy of rank reversal

Thomas Saaty, Luis Vargas
Journal: Omega
WE ARE GLAD to be finally'answering Belton and Gear's concerns expressed in their article in Omega [l]. There are two points they make in their letter. The first has to do with rank reversal, and the second with how to ask the question by minimizing fuzziness. Our response is organized into four ...

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An AHP-ANP Comparative Study on the Structural Impact of Adding or Deleting Indifferent Criteria

Min-Suk Yoon
Journal: Korean Corporation Management Review
This study deals with addition of indifferent or wash criteria on which the alternatives have equal performance in the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) against the misguided argument as shortcoming of the AHP. In such case, it is noted that careful attention and a correct approach are required in...

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The priorities of human being's decision making

Min-Suk Yoon
Journal: IJAHP
In order to honor Thomas Saaty, the developer of Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)/ Analytic Network Process (ANP), and focus on the paper he wrote just before he died, this essay mentions the rank order problem due to the addition/deletion of irrelevant alternatives over which there were controve...

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