AN INTERPRETATION OF THE AHP GLOBAL PRIORITY AS THE EIGENVECTOR SOLUTION OF AN ANP SUPERMATRIX

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Published Jun 14, 2011
Stan Lipovetsky

Abstract

Not only the local priority vectors but also the global synthesized priority vector for the alternatives can be obtained from the eigenproblem solution for the ANP supermatrix. This global priority vector retains the main property of any AHP vector – to present the mean dominance of each of the items over the others with respect to the goal of the hierarchy.

http://dx.doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v3i1.90

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Lipovetsky, S. (2011). AN INTERPRETATION OF THE AHP GLOBAL PRIORITY AS THE EIGENVECTOR SOLUTION OF AN ANP SUPERMATRIX. International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v3i1.90

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Keywords

AHP local and global vectors, ANP, eigenproblem of supermatrix

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