Research Article

An Approach for Generating Weights Using the Pairwise Comparison Matrix

Table 20

Compound weights of three suppliers from the view of C4.

C41C42C43C44C45C46Compound weightNormalisation

A. EM weights are normalised to make their maximum one
Subcriteria weight0.3550.1430.1840.5630.0901.000
Supplier 10.1491.0000.2921.0000.4370.4371.2890.637
Supplier 21.0000.4050.1711.0000.1911.0002.0251.000
Supplier 30.4460.1641.0000.2501.0000.0950.6920.342

B. Model (8) weights are normalised to make their maximum one
Subcriteria weight0.3550.1430.1830.5620.0901.000
Supplier 10.1511.0000.2921.0000.4370.4381.2890.637
Supplier 21.0000.4060.1711.0000.1921.0002.0231.000
Supplier 30.4470.1651.0000.2501.0000.0960.6920.342