Introduction -- Multiplicative pairwise comparisons -- Inconsistency indices and their properties -- Inconsistency reduction -- Alternative approaches to the evaluation of inconsistency in pairwise comparisons -- Inconsistency of incomplete pairwise comparisons matrices -- Ordinal inconsistency.

Background: Individual decision-making largely influences the effectiveness of decisions and benefits of investments. Methods: In this article, a consensus model for group decision-making (GDM), based on the analytic hierarchy process (AHP), is developed to gather group ideas and analyze the...

Problems with high stakes, involving human perceptions and judgements, and whose resolutions have long-term repercussions, call for a rational approach to their solution. Strategic Decision Making provides an effective, formal methodology that gives assistance to such strategic level decision...

This paper proposes and develops a decision model that allows fast-food restaurants to be located in urban areas. This decision model starts by preselecting a city as the study area, calculates the centre of gravity of the points of interest that positively affect the restaurant’s demand in...