| Article ID: | iaor20022951 |
| Country: | China |
| Volume: | 19 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 28 |
| End Page Number: | 33 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2001 |
| Journal: | Systems Engineering |
| Authors: | Song Yexin, Chen Jinyun, Wu Xiaoping |
| Keywords: | programming: assignment |
In the analytic hierarchy process, expert opinion using fuzzy numbers and linguistic variables, can be used to produce a fuzzy evaluation value matrix and this may be aggregated using fuzzy arithmetic. Then, by using a method of ranking of fuzzy numbers, the problem can be converted to the classical assignment problem which can be solved by the Hungarian algorithm. Finally, a numerical example illustrates the proposed method.