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A comparative study of multiattribute decision making methodologies

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Three “real life” cases are considered in this paper to apply and compare the rankings obtained by the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and other Multicriteria Decision Making (MCDM) techniques such as Simple Additive Weighting (SAW), ELECTRE and Weighted Linear Assignment Method (WLAM). The results indicated that the AHP, SAW, and ELECTRE rankings do not differ significantly, however, the WLAM tends to exhibit more disagreement. However, because of the limited nature of this study, we do not suggest this as a general conclusion.

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  1. Technion, Haifa, Israel

    Reuven Karni

  2. Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, USA

    Pedro Sanchez

  3. Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, USA

    V. M. Rao Tummala

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Karni, R., Sanchez, P. & Tummala, V.M.R. A comparative study of multiattribute decision making methodologies. Theor Decis 29, 203–222 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00126802

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