| Article ID: | iaor2002885 |
| Country: | China |
| Volume: | 20 |
| Issue: | 7 |
| Start Page Number: | 58 |
| End Page Number: | 62 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2000 |
| Journal: | Systems Engineering Theory & Practice |
| Authors: | Xu Zeshui |
| Keywords: | analytic hierarchy process |
This paper first demonstrates the fact that different alternatives rankings may be developed using several scales to construct judgement matrices for the same problem, then gives a simulation-based evaluation of the scales from several aspects. Thus, a theoretical guarantee can be offered for experts to select the scale correctly.