Journal
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH
Volume 186, Issue 2, Pages 735-747Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2007.01.050
Keywords
analytic hierarchy process; multiple criteria decision analysis; fuzzy comparison matrix; extent analysis
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In a paper by Chang [D.Y. Chang, Applications of the extent analysis method on fuzzy AHP, European Journal of Operational Research 95 (1996) 649-655], an extent analysis method on fuzzy AHP was proposed to obtain a crisp priority vector from a triangular fuzzy comparison matrix. It is found that the extent analysis method cannot estimate the true weights from a fuzzy comparison matrix and has led to quite a number of misapplications in the literature. In this paper, we show by examples that the priority vectors determined by the extent analysis method do not represent the relative importance of decision criteria or alternatives and that the misapplication of the extent analysis method to fuzzy AHP problems may lead to a wrong decision to be made and some useful decision information such as decision criteria and fuzzy comparison matrices not to be considered. We show these problems to avoid any possible misapplications in the future. (C) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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