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Recently, Triantaphyllou reported that, when evaluating binomial relation by the original analytic hierarchy process (AHP), the ranking of alternatives is different from that obtained when evaluating all alternative simultaneously, even if the preference transitivity holds and if all pairwise comparison matrices are completely consistent. In this paper, we show that the aspiration level AHP, one of the AHP modifications proposed by Tamura et al., does not cause such irrational ranking for completely consistent case. We also estimate how often irrational rankings occur in practical cases by experimental analysis.
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Taji, K., Suzuki, J., Takahashi, S., Tamura, H. (2003). Experimental Analysis for Rational Decision Making by Aspiration Level AHP. In: Multi-Objective Programming and Goal Programming. Advances in Soft Computing, vol 21. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-36510-5_34
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