Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-10-2015
Publication Title
Information Sciences
Volume
306
First Page
166
Keywords
Group decision making, Chi-square method, Incomplete reciprocal preference relation, Priority, Consistency
Last Page
179
Abstract
This paper proposes a chi-square method (CSM) to obtain a priority vector for group decision making (GDM) problems where decision-makers’ (DMs’) assessment on alternatives is furnished as incomplete reciprocal preference relations with missing values. Relevant theorems and an iterative algorithm about CSM are proposed. Saaty’s consistency ratio concept is adapted to judge whether an incomplete reciprocal preference relation provided by a DM is of acceptable consistency. If its consistency is unacceptable, an algorithm is proposed to repair it until its consistency ratio reaches a satisfactory threshold. The repairing algorithm aims to rectify an inconsistent incomplete reciprocal preference relation to one with acceptable consistency in addition to preserving the initial preference information as much as possible. Finally, four examples are examined to illustrate the applicability and validity of the proposed method, and comparative analyses are provided to show its advantages over existing approaches.
DOI
10.1016/j.ins.2015.02.018
Recommended Citation
Xu, Yejun; Chen, Lei; Li, Kevin; and Wang, Huimin. (2015). A chi-square method for priority derivation in group decision making with incomplete reciprocal preference relations. Information Sciences, 306, 166-179.
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/odettepub/88
Comments
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