TY - JOUR
T1 - Computing a common preference vector in a complex multi-actor and multi-group decision system in Analytic Hierarchy Process context
AU - Amenta, Pietro
AU - Ishizaka, Alessio
AU - Lucadamo, Antonio
AU - Marcarelli, Gabriella
AU - Vyas, Vijay
N1 - EMBARGO 12 MTHS
This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Annals of Operations Research. The final authenticated version is available online at Springer via http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10479-019-03258-3
PY - 2020/1
Y1 - 2020/1
N2 - The Analytic Hierarchy Process (hereafter AHP) is a popular multi-criteria decision making technique. The extant AHP literature usually depicts the geometric mean or the arithmetic mean as a measure of aggregation to process group decisions. However, both these measures are subject to the influence of extreme opinions, and aggregations based on them may not accurately portray the true group preference. In this paper, we propose the Common Priority Vector Procedure, which accentuates the majority group preference and diminishes the influence of extreme individual opinions. The method has been further extended to deal with multi-actor, multi-criteria and multi-group decisions. The development of Common Priority Vector Procedure, presented here, has been motivated by a real case study presented towards the end of the paper.
AB - The Analytic Hierarchy Process (hereafter AHP) is a popular multi-criteria decision making technique. The extant AHP literature usually depicts the geometric mean or the arithmetic mean as a measure of aggregation to process group decisions. However, both these measures are subject to the influence of extreme opinions, and aggregations based on them may not accurately portray the true group preference. In this paper, we propose the Common Priority Vector Procedure, which accentuates the majority group preference and diminishes the influence of extreme individual opinions. The method has been further extended to deal with multi-actor, multi-criteria and multi-group decisions. The development of Common Priority Vector Procedure, presented here, has been motivated by a real case study presented towards the end of the paper.
KW - Decision analysis
KW - AHP
KW - Group decision
KW - Common Priority Vector Procedure
KW - multi-criteria decision making
U2 - 10.1007/s10479-019-03258-3
DO - 10.1007/s10479-019-03258-3
M3 - Article
SN - 0254-5330
VL - 284
SP - 33
EP - 62
JO - Annals of Operations Research
JF - Annals of Operations Research
IS - 1
ER -