TY - JOUR
T1 - A modified procedure for synthesising ratio judgements in the analytic hierarchy process
AU - Yeh, J. M.
AU - Lin, C.
AU - Kreng, B.
AU - Gee, J. Y.
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements—The authors would like to thank the National Science Council of the Republic of China for financially supporting this research under Contract No. NSC 87-2416-H-006-025.
PY - 1999
Y1 - 1999
N2 - The analytic hierarchy process (AHP) has been widely applied to solve problems arising in group decision making, by synthesising different or conflicting judgements. However, directly synthesising conflicting judgements by calculating the geometric mean of preference weights (ratios) in AHP may not reach consensus from all members in a decision making group, especially, when those members represent the stakeholders of the decision making problem. This study proposes a new method that uses the genetic algorithm and utility function to synthesise preference weights to prevent this fallacy occurring when implementing the classical AHP approach. Using the proposed method, the final decision can be achieved with only minimally-adjusted preference weights.
AB - The analytic hierarchy process (AHP) has been widely applied to solve problems arising in group decision making, by synthesising different or conflicting judgements. However, directly synthesising conflicting judgements by calculating the geometric mean of preference weights (ratios) in AHP may not reach consensus from all members in a decision making group, especially, when those members represent the stakeholders of the decision making problem. This study proposes a new method that uses the genetic algorithm and utility function to synthesise preference weights to prevent this fallacy occurring when implementing the classical AHP approach. Using the proposed method, the final decision can be achieved with only minimally-adjusted preference weights.
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U2 - 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2600768
DO - 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2600768
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0033241757
VL - 50
SP - 867
EP - 873
JO - Journal of the Operational Research Society
JF - Journal of the Operational Research Society
SN - 0160-5682
IS - 8
ER -