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In a very recent paper by Xu and Chen (Soft Comput 12:515–521, 2008), a novel procedure for group decision making with incomplete reciprocal relations was developed. In this note, we examine the function between the fuzzy preference relation and its corresponding priority vector developed by Xu and Chen with a numerical example and show that the function does not hold in general cases. Then, we deduce an exact function between the additive transitivity fuzzy preference relation and its corresponding priority vector. Based on this, we develop a procedure for the decision making with an incomplete reciprocal relation and also develop a procedure for the group decision making with incomplete reciprocal relations. In order to compare the performances of our method with Xu and Chen’s method in fitting the reciprocal relation, we introduce some criteria. Theoretical analysis and numerical examples have shown that the function deduced by us is more reasonable and effective than Xu and Chen’s.
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The author is very grateful to the two anonymous referees for their insightful and constructive comments and suggestions that have led to an improved version of this paper. This work was supported by Hohai University “the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2009B04514)” and the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No. 50979024,No. 90924027).
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Xu, Y., Da, Q. & Wang, H. A note on group decision-making procedure based on incomplete reciprocal relations. Soft Comput 15, 1289–1300 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-010-0662-3
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