Important Facts and Observations about Pairwise Comparisons (the special issue edition)

This study has been inspired by numerous requests from researchers who often confuse Saaty's AHP with the Pairwise Comparisons (PC) method, taking AHP as the only representation of PC. Most formal ∗Computer Science, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario P3E 2C6, Canada, wkoczkodaj@cs.laurentian.ca †School of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, M13 9PL, United Kingdom, ludi.mikhailov@mbs.ac.uk ‡Electrical and Control Engeenering Department, Gdansk University of Technology, 80-297 Gdansk, Narutowicza st. 11/12, Poland, grzegorz.redlarski@pg.gda.pl §California State University Channel Islands, Dept. of Computer Science, One University Drive, Camarillo, CA 93012, USA, michael.soltys@csuci.edu ¶AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Applied Mathematics, al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Krakow, Poland, szybowsk@agh.edu.pl; Research supported by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education ‖Institute of Mathematics and Physics, Siedlce University of Natural Sciences and Humanities, 3 Maja 54, 08-110 Siedlice, Poland, eliza.wajch@wp.pl ∗∗Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering. Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou 215123, China, kevinkf.yuen@gmail.com ††Theodosius Dobzhansky Center for Genome Bioinformatics, St. Petersburg State University; This work was supported, in part, by Russian Ministry of Science Mega-grant no.11.G34.31.0068

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