Multicriteria decision methods: An attempt to evaluate and unify

Four well-known multicriteria decision methods are described in this paper, and illustrated with a simple example and are then shown to be fundamentally related by appropriate transformation from paired comparison data. Finally, two sets of several criteria each are given so that researchers and users can-use them to evaluate the merits and shortcomings of each of these methods. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.