Avoiding rank reversal in AHP decision-support models
β Scribed by Stan Schenkerman
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1994
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 756 KB
- Volume
- 74
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0377-2217
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