Distributed Load Shedding considering the Multicriteria Decision-Making Based on the Application of the Analytic Hierarchy Process

Table 1

Pair-wise comparison scale of criteria.

Numerical rating	Definition	Explanation
1	Equal importance	Two criteria contribute equally to the goal
3	Moderate importance	A criterion is favored slightly over the other
5	Strong importance	A criterion is favored strongly over the other
7	Very strong importance	A criterion is favored very strongly over the other
9	Extreme importance	A criterion is favored extremely over the other
2, 4, 6, 8	Intermediate values between two adjacent scale values	Make a compromise between two adjacent judgments