Research Article

An Approach for Generating Weights Using the Pairwise Comparison Matrix

Table 19

Compound weights of three suppliers from the view of C3.

C31C32C33C34Compound weightNormalisation

A. EM weights are normalised to make their maximum one
Subcriteria weight0.1170.3040.5331.000
Supplier 11.0001.0001.0001.0001.9551.000
Supplier 20.3350.2580.1660.2580.4640.237
Supplier 30.1490.1110.0960.1110.2130.109

B. Model (8) weights are normalised to make their maximum one
Subcriteria weight0.1180.3030.5181.000
Supplier 11.0001.0001.0001.0001.9391.000
Supplier 20.3350.2580.1660.2580.4620.238
Supplier 30.1510.1110.0960.1110.2120.109