Notes on the existence of a solution in the pairwise comparisons method using the heuristic rating estimation approach

DOI10.1007/S10472-015-9474-6MaRDI QIDQ505977zbMATH OpenOpenAlexDBLPWikidataFDO

Authors Konrad Kułakowski

Publication date 27 January 2017

Published in Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.4064

zbMATH Keywords

decision support systemsdata inconsistencyanalytic hierarchy processpairwise comparisonsheuristic rating estimation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Management decision making, including multiple objectives (90B50) Approximation methods and heuristics in mathematical programming (90C59) Decision theory (91B06)

Abstract: Pairwise comparisons are a well-known method for modelling of the subjective preferences of a decision maker. A popular implementation of the method is based on solving an eigenvalue problem for M - the matrix of pairwise comparisons. This does not take into account the actual values of preference. The Heuristic Rating Estimation (HRE) approach is a modification of this method in which allows modelling of the reference values. To determine the relative order of preferences is to solve a certain linear equation system defined by the matrix A and the constant term vector b (both derived from M). The article explores the properties of these equation systems. In particular, it is proven that for some small data inconsistency the A matrix is an M-matrix, hence the equation proposed by the HRE approach has a unique strictly positive solution.

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