| Article ID: | iaor19961691 |
| Country: | Japan |
| Volume: | 38 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 21 |
| End Page Number: | 33 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 1995 |
| Journal: | Journal of the Operations Research Society of Japan |
| Authors: | Nishizawa Kazutomo |
| Keywords: | decision theory, analytic hierarchy process |
In this paper, a consistency improving of the comparison matrix in binary AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) is studied. As its byproducts, the paper proposes a method to count the cycles of length 3 and to find the locations of the cycles in a complete directed graph. It applies the present proposed consistency improving method to various examples including three actual sports games. Comparing the method with ordinary improving method, the paper can show the usefulness of the present method.