| Article ID: | iaor19911652 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 41 |
| Issue: | 11 |
| Start Page Number: | 1073 |
| End Page Number: | 1076 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 1990 |
| Journal: | Journal of the Operational Research Society |
| Authors: | Holder R.D. |
| Keywords: | analytic hierarchy process |
Some comments are made on the analytic hierarchy process of Thomas L. Saaty, which has gained widespread acceptance as a valuable tool for multicriteria decision-making. Saaty’s validation of the method against physical laws is criticized, a multiplicative scale is suggested for making judgements, and the problem of rank reversal is discussed with reference to two published papers.