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Synthesizing Comparison Matrices of AHP Under Group Decision

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Tackling multi-criteria decision making problems with AHP, judgements of decision makers are represented by positive reciprocal matrices with ratio judgements representing the preference of a decision maker. In this paper, we are going to propose a new method for aggregating individual ratio judgments into a group consensus. With the aggregation we proposed, the objective weight of each opinion is determined automatically in such a way that it is larger if the opinion is closer to the consensus and lesser otherwise. An iterative procedure is proposed to reach the consensus.

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  1. Department of Aviation and Maritime Management, Chang Jung Christian University, Tainan 711, Taiwan

    Ming-Tao Chou

  2. Department of Shipping and Transportation Management, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung 202, Taiwan

    Hsuan-Shih Lee & Ching-Wu Chu

  3. Department of Electrical Engineering, St. John’s University, Tamsui, Taipei 251, Taiwan

    Chao-Yuan Cheng

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  1. Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Informazione, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Comelico 39/41, 20135, Milano, Italy

    Bruno Apolloni

  2. Centre for SMART Systems, School of Engineering, University of Brighton, BN2 4GJ, Brighton, UK

    Robert J. Howlett

  3. Knowledge-Based Intelligent Engineering Systems Centre, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, SA 5095, Adelaide, Australia

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Chou, MT., Lee, HS., Chu, CW., Cheng, CY. (2007). Synthesizing Comparison Matrices of AHP Under Group Decision. In: Apolloni, B., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L. (eds) Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4693. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74827-4_165

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