We studied the process of production scheduling in a large chemical plant. Scheduling in that environment is inherently a group process because multiple experts are needed to construct a schedule and to manage its execution. A mathematical formulation of the production scheduling problem yields...

When checking the inconsistency level of a positive reciprocal matrix Saaty uses a deterministic criterion based on two parameters, a benchmark (the average), and a consistency level, usually 10%. Using results from a simulation experiment with 100,000 positive random reciprocal matrices of size...