?-Discounting Method for Multi-Criteria Decision Making (?-D MCDM)

In this book we introduce a new procedure called ?-Discounting Method for Multi-Criteria Decision Making (?-D MCDM), which is as an alternative and extension of Saaty’s Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP). It works for any number of preferences that can be transformed into a system of homogeneous linear equations. A degree of consistency (and implicitly a degree of inconsistency) of a decision-making problem are defined. ?-D MCDM is afterwards generalized to a set of preferences that can be transformed into a system of linear and/or non-linear homogeneous and/or non-homogeneous equations and/or inequalities.