Multicriteria analysis with fuzzy pairwise comparison

摘要

The analytic hierarchy process (AHP) is a popular method for solving multicriteria analysis (MA) problems involving qualitative data. However, this method is often criticized due to its use of an unbalanced scale of judgements and its inability to ade- quately handle the inherent uncertainty and imprecision of the pairwise comparison process. This paper presents a fuzzy approach for tackling qualitative MA problems in a simple and straightforward manner.