Abstract
Complex problems usually require the participation of many experts. One reason for this situation is that having more than one opinion on a specific topic may be needed.
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The pairwise comparison was done via a printed questionnaire given to each participant. These responses were not visible to the other participants, only to the AHP facilitator and the PM who guaranteed the confidentiality of the responses.
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Deciding How to Decide is a term coined by Roberto (2005) and highlights the idea that teams must agree to the decision-making process before getting involved in the decision itself. This ensures that whatever decision is reached by the participants, it will be considered fair and taking into account all the different positions. In general, the success of the group decision-making using AHP will depend on the effectiveness of managing the group dynamics and standard methods for effective team management (Forsyth 2013; Roberto 2005).
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These DMs may have recorded their judgments in 3 different comparison matrices. You need to aggregate the judgments manually and enter the result into a new aggregate matrix.
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For simplicity, we will use the same values from our previous example.
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These DMs may have recorded their judgments in 3 different Super Decisions models or in 3 different paper questionnaires . You need to aggregate the judgments manually and enter the result into a new comparison questionnaire in Super Decisions.
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To change the direction of the arrow, simply click on the arrow and it will point either to the row (changing to blue color) or to the column (changing to red color), respectively.
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Mu, E., Pereyra-Rojas, M. (2018). Group Decision-Making in AHP. In: Practical Decision Making using Super Decisions v3. SpringerBriefs in Operations Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68369-0_8
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