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Response to the Comments by Larichev, Korhonen and Vargas on ‘Power Relations and Group Aggregation in the Multiplicative AHP and SMART’
Author(s) -
LOOTSMA F. A.,
BARZILAI J.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
journal of multi‐criteria decision analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.462
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1099-1360
pISSN - 1057-9214
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-1360(199705)6:3<171::aid-mcda135>3.0.co;2-r
Subject(s) - multiplicative function , legitimacy , voting , mathematical economics , rank (graph theory) , rounding , analytic hierarchy process , negotiation , order (exchange) , group (periodic table) , computer science , operations research , mathematics , law , political science , politics , economics , combinatorics , mathematical analysis , chemistry , finance , organic chemistry , operating system
We are pleased to continue the open discussion in this journal and we hope that it will contribute to the clarification of the main issues. Aggregation by geometric means has been accepted as a technically sound procedure. The critical comments now seem to concentrate on the establishment of the Multiplicative AHP, the publication of a method for weighted voting before empirical verification, and the significance of negotiations in decision making. Several numerical examples illustrate the arithmetic‐mean and geometric‐mean calculations, and the legitimacy of rank reversal is revisited. We discuss the issues in the same order here. © 1997 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. J. Multi‐Crit. Decis. Anal. 6 : 171–174 (1997) No. of Figures: 0. No. of Tables: 5. No. of References: 9.