Eigenvector Method and Rank Reversal in Group Decision Making Revisited

DOI10.3233/FI-2017-1602zbMATH Open1407.91079arXiv1706.03606MaRDI QIDQ4606356FDOQ4606356

László Csató

Publication date: 2 March 2018

Published in: Fundamenta Informaticae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It has been shown recently that the Eigenvector Method may lead to strong rank reversal in group decision making, that is, the alternative with the highest priority according to all individual vectors may lose its position when evaluations are derived from the aggregated group comparison matrix. We give a minimal counterexample and prove that this negative result is a consequence of the difference of the rankings induced by the right and inverse left eigenvectors.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03606

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zbMATH Keywords

pairwise comparison matrixpreference aggregationeigenvector methodrank reversalaxiomatic approach

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Decision theory (91B06) Eigenvalues, singular values, and eigenvectors (15A18)

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