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The selection of a project among a set of possible alternatives is a difficult task decision makers have to face. Difficulties in selecting a project arise because of the different goals involved and because of the large number of attributes to consider. Our approach is based upon a fuzzy extension of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). This paper focuses on the constraints that have to be considered within fuzzy AHP in order to take in account all the available information. This study demonstrates that by considering all the information deriving from the constraints better results in terms of certainty and reliability can be achieved.
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Enea, M., Piazza, T. Project Selection by Constrained Fuzzy AHP. Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making 3, 39–62 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:FODM.0000013071.63614.3d
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