Consistency Improvement Method of Pairwise Matrix Based on Consistency Ratio Decreasing Rate and Attribute Weighting Method Considered Decision Makers’ Levels in Analytic Hierarchy Process: Application to Hip Joint Prosthesis Material Selection

Won-Chol Yang, Hyon-Song Kang, Gyong-Su Ri, Jin-Sim Kim and Harish Garg

Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2022, vol. 2022, 1-22

Abstract: Analytic hierarchy process (AHP) is a well-known attribute weighting method in multiattribute decision-making. Its major requirement is to satisfy the consistency of pairwise matrix (PM). To solve this problem, we first propose a new consistency improvement method of PM based on consistency ratio (CR) decreasing rate. In this method, we calculate the CR decreasing rates of all the PMs reconstituted by replacing all elements of the PM with the lower and upper neighbouring 9-point scales and find the element with maximum CR decreasing rate, and then modify it to its lower or upper neighbouring scale. Second, we develop third-order approximate polynomial for random consistency index using least square method. It enables to determine the RI value according to the number of attributes without a numerical table. Third, we propose the final PM determining method and final attribute weighting method considered decision makers’ levels based on the CR values of the individual PMs in case several decision makers perform their own pairwise comparisons. We test the performances of the proposed and some previous consistency improvement methods with two numerical examples. The results demonstrate that the proposed method improves the consistency of PM better and faster with smaller amount of modification than that of the previous methods, while it modify the elements of the PM to 9-point scales, necessarily. We apply the proposed method to hip joint prosthesis material selection. The proposed methods may be widely used in practical applications of AHP.

Date: 2022
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