Monetary policy on real estate investment in China has had varying impacts across the country due to regional differences. A supply-determined model is used to measure the policy effects on property investment volume based on a set of regional data from 2003 to 2010. This research yields several...

Sustainable urban development has been receiving growing concerns from both city managers and urban residents across the world. As a yardstick of sustainability, urban carrying capacity (UCC) is an important conceptual underpinning that guides local governments in promoting sustainable urban...

The consistency of the pairwise comparison matrix (PCM) has been extensively studied in the Analytic Hierarchy Process. Most of the existing approaches for the consistency test of the PCM are based on the consistency ratio threshold (0.1) introduced by Saaty (1977). To accurately measure the...

In this paper, we carry out a study about the main themes treated by the International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making during its first 10 years (2002–2011). The themes are detected, quantified and visualized using an approach that combines performance analysis and science...

Cardinal and ordinal inconsistencies are important and popular research topics in the study of decision making with pair-wise comparison matrices (PCMs). Few of the currently-employed tactics are capable of simultaneously dealing with both cardinal and ordinal inconsistency issues in one model,...