Some Comments on Saaty's AHP
这篇短文澄清了Saaty层次分析法在准则权重处理上引发的排序反转现象,指出该现象本身不否定方法有效性,但需明确其适用情境。
The purpose of this short paper is to help clarify some questions which have arisen with respect to the suitability, or even the correctness, of the way Saaty's AHP method handles criteria weights, sometimes causing the rank reversal phenomenon. The position set forth in this paper is that this undesirable effect does not, per se, invalidate that method, but it does make it necessary to identify the kind of situations in which the method is suitable.