Incomplete pairwise comparison matrices contain some missing judgements. A natural approach to estimate these values is provided by minimising a reasonable measure of inconsistency after unknown entries are replaced by variables. Two widely used inconsistency indices for this purpose are...

The outcome of some football matches has benefited both teams at the expense of a third team because head-to-head results were used for breaking ties. Inspired by these examples, our mathematical analysis identifies all possible collusion opportunities caused by this particular ranking rule in a...

The eigenvalue method, suggested by the developer of the extensively used Analytic Hierarchy Process meth- odology, exhibits right-left asymmetry: the priorities derived from the right eigenvector do not necessarily coincide with the priorities derived from the reciprocal left eigenvector. This...

Since there exist several completion methods to estimate the missing entries of pairwise comparison matrices, practitioners face a difficult task in choosing the best technique. Our paper contributes to this issue: we consider a special set of incomplete pairwise comparison matrices that can be...

The best–worst method is an increasingly popular approach to solving multi-criteria decision-making problems. However, the usual prioritisation techniques may result in an ordinal violation if the best (worst) alternative identified in the first step does not receive the highest (lowest)...

Az Európai Unió Tanácsa (korábban Miniszterek Tanácsa) az Unió egyik fő döntéshozó szervezete, amelyben minden országot egyetlen fő képvisel, akinek szavazási súlya az adott ország népességével arányos. A döntések meghozatalához számos szavazás során minősített...