Journal of the Operations Research Society of Japan
Online ISSN : 2188-8299
Print ISSN : 0453-4514
ISSN-L : 0453-4514
A UNIFIED MODEL AND ANALYSIS FOR AHP AND ANP
Kazuyuki SekitaniIwaro Takahashi
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2001 Volume 44 Issue 1 Pages 67-89

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Saaty proposes the analyzing methods for AHP using the principal eigenvector of the comparison matrix, and for ANP (analytic network process) using the limiting process method of the powers of the supermatrix. These methods are based on the irreducibility of the evaluation matrices. We develop the unified method solving both AHP and ANP based on Frobenius min-max theorem. Further this method is extended to the solving method of the general (not necessarily irreducible) evaluation matrix, by the graphic decomposition process.

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