Pairwise comparisons method. Theory and applications in decision making (Q2308886)

The book is devoted to investigation of properties of pairwise comparison matrices (abbreviation PCMs) and their applications in decision making. Part I of the book contains Chapters 1--5, which form its theoretical part, Part II containing applications. Chapter 1 contains the necessary preliminaries from the literature. Chapters 2 brings the definition of a PCM and properties of two types of PCMs, namely multiplicative and additive PCMs. The PCMs are a helpful tool to finding a ranking of a given finite set of alternatives using a PCM \(A = (a_{ij}) )\). The entries \(a_{ij}\) are either preference ratios in case of multiplicative PCMs or preference differences in case of multiplicative PCMs. Chapter 3 devoted to PCMs over abelian linearly ordered groups provides a general framework, which encompasses a wide class of PCMs including the two types of PCMs mentioned in Chapter 2, as well as the PCMs with fuzzy entries, the usage of which is a subject of the next Chapter 4. The entries of fuzzy PCMs, which are studied in Chapter 4 belong to interval \([0,1]\) and measure the distance from the value \(0.5\) representing the indifference. Another type of PCMs arises when the entries of PCMs are connected with the probability of preferences of alternative \(i\) to alternative \(j\) expressed by a group of experts. Such PCMs are studied in Chapter 5. Part II (Chapters 6 and 7) describes selected applications and case studies.