Title:
Assessing landscape plans with abbreviated pair-wise comparisons in the AHP (Analitic Hierarchy Process)
Abstract
(AHP) in assessing landscape plans using the option of abbreviated pair-wise
comparisons to simplify the weight elicitation process for decision makers.
Whereas the standard AHP elicitation procedure requires a full set of
pairwise comparisons among all criteria at each node of the decision
hierarchy in order to derive criterion weights for the decision model, the
abbreviated pairwise method uses a minimal spanning set of pairwise
comparisons, and remaining comparisons are then derived by transitivity
rules. In this paper is presented the abbreviated pairwise method with a
case study in which alternative management plans are evaluated for the
Zvezdarska forest of Belgrade, Serbia. The analysis was performed with the
Criterium DecisionPlus software, which fully implements the AHP methodology,
and provides useful diagnostics on AHP decision models. As a conclusion,
some of the key advantages and disadvantages of the abbreviated pairwise
variant of the AHP method are demonstrated. One of the key qualities of the
Criterium DecisionPlus software is a clear and easy graphical representation
of the results.
publisher: National Library of Serbia
published: 2019
doi : 10.2298/zmspn1936183l