Generating consensus priority point vectors: a logarithmic goal programming approach

The analytic hierarchy process (Saaty, The Analytic Hierarchy Process: Planning, Priority Setting, Resource Allocation, New York: McGraw-Hill 1980) is a popular technique for addressing multiple-criteria decision-making problems (MCDMs). Various techniques have been proposed for using the AHP in group situations. Fundamental to the AHP is the generation of priority point vectors from matrices of pairwise comparison data. In this paper, we present a logarithmic goal programming model for generating the 'consensus' priority point vector from the set of individual priority point vectors. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.