Group preference aggregation with the AHP – implications for multiple-issue agendas. (English) Zbl 0991.90078
Summary: We extend different group preference aggregation procedures applied in the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) to multiple-issue decision problems. We demonstrate how existing procedures that are specifically developed for single-issue decisions will generally fail to generate Pareto optimal agreements when applied to multiple issues. By relating these procedures to formal concepts of social choice theory, we develop a utilitarian weighted arithmetic mean method of aggregation that ensures efficiency. Our approach thus provides a theoretical basis for designing the AHP to implement social choice functions in practice.
MSC:
| 90B50 | Management decision making, including multiple objectives |
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