| Article ID: | iaor2009567 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 36 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 45 |
| End Page Number: | 63 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2008 |
| Journal: | OMEGA |
| Authors: | Triantaphyllou Evangelos, Wang Xiaoting |
| Keywords: | analytic hierarchy process |
The ELECTRE II and III methods enjoy a wide acceptance in solving multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) problems. Research results in this paper reveal that there are some compelling reasons to doubt the correctness of the proposed rankings when the ELECTRE II and III methods are used. In a typical test we first used these methods to determine the best alternative for a given MCDM problem. Next, we randomly replaced a non-optimal alternative by a worse one and repeated the calculations without changing any of the other data.