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Many real-world problems involve the assignment of priorities to a set of objects, projects, products, etc. Preferences are often expressed in the form of pairwise comparisons, rather than as weights directly. In many environments, this is the most convenient format for extracting such preference data. Specifically, ifnobjects are being compared, then preferences are supplied by means of an n×n matrix A =(a ij )wherea ij is the degree to which objectiis preferred to objectj.Paired comparison information has been used extensively in multicriteria problems and in particular to derive weights for goal programming functionals (see Charnes and Cooper [2]; Gass [6]).
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Barzilai, J., Cook, W.D., Golany, B. (1992). The Analytic Hierarchy Process: Structure of the Problem and Its Solutions. In: Phillips, F.Y., Rousseau, J.J. (eds) Systems and Management Science by Extremal Methods. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3600-0_23
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