Important Facts and Observations about Pairwise Comparisons (the special issue edition)

Waldemar W. Koczkodaj; Ludmil Mikhailov; Grzegorz Redlarski; Michael Soltys; Jacek Szybowski; Gaik Tamazian; Eliza Wajch; Kevin Kam Fung Yuen

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Important Facts and Observations about Pairwise Comparisons (the special issue edition)

Waldemar W. Koczkodaj^*, Ludmil Mikhailov, Grzegorz Redlarski, Michael Soltys, Jacek Szybowski, Gaik Tamazian, Eliza Wajch, Kevin Kam Fung Yuen

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This study has been inspired by numerous requests for clarification from researchers who often confuse Saaty's Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) with the pairwise comparisons (PC) method, taking AHP as the only representation of PC. This study should be regarded as an interpretation and clarification of past investigations of PC. In addition, this article is a reflection on general PC research at a higher level of abstraction: the philosophy of science. It delves into the foundations and implications of pairwise comparisons. Some results of this study are based on a recently published work by Koczkodaj and Szwarc. Finally, open problems have also been reported for future research.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	291-307
Number of pages	17
Journal	Fundamenta Informaticae
Volume	144
Issue number	3-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3233/FI-2016-1336
Publication status	Published - 2 May 2016

Keywords

approximation
inconsistency analysis
pairwise comparisons
ratio scale

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