| Article ID: | iaor20061786 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 164 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 206 |
| End Page Number: | 216 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2005 |
| Journal: | European Journal of Operational Research |
| Authors: | Xu Zeshui, Da Qingli |
| Keywords: | decision theory: multiple criteria, statistics: decision |
Based on the transfer relationship between fuzzy preference relation and multiplicative preference relation, this paper proposes a least deviation method to obtain a priority vector of a fuzzy preference relation and studies its desirable properties. A simple convergent iterative algorithm is given and its practicality is shown by two numerical examples.