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Group Decision Support Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process

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This chapter comprises an account of three significant recent contributions made by the Zaragoza Multicriteria Decision-Making Group to the field of group decision and negotiation using the analytic hierarchy process. After a short overview of AHP and its role in group decision support, it goes on to include (i) a review of the role of consistency in group decision-making and the proposal of consistency consensus matrices; (ii) an outline of the procedure aggregation of individual preference structures that provides collective valuations of the alternatives in a group decision problem; and (iii) a brief examination of the Bayesian approach to group decision-making using the analytic hierarchy process and the connection to prioritization, consistency, and compatibility. The chapter is complemented by a discussion of cognitive orientation and its implementation in group decision processes.

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  1. Grupo Decisión Multicriterio Zaragoza, Facultad de Economía y Empresa, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain

    José María Moreno-Jiménez, Juan Aguarón, María Teresa Escobar & Manuel Salvador

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Moreno-Jiménez, J.M., Aguarón, J., Escobar, M.T., Salvador, M. (2020). Group Decision Support Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process. In: Kilgour, D., Eden, C. (eds) Handbook of Group Decision and Negotiation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12051-1_51-1

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