Papers

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Paper results for keyword: Utility theory

The Analytic Hierarchy Process and utility theory: Ratio scales and interval scales

Rozann Saaty
Journal: Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on the Analytic Hierarchy Process (ISAHP’96)
This paper is a brief summary of the successful workability of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (All!') free of problems and paradoxes. As a theory of ratio scale measurement, the AHP has found multiple and diverse applications in priority setting, decision making, planning , resource allocatio...

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Rank and the controversy about the axioms of utility theory--a comparison of AHP and MAUT

Thomas Saaty
Journal: Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium of The Analytic Hierarchy Process
A variety of authors have given real life examples that violate the utility theory axiom of independence from irrelevant alternatives. A theory that can only rank alternatives ione at a time such as Multiattribute Utility Theory has difficulty showing how introducing new alternatives that do not ...

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