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  1. Focus on Objectives

    Criteria, Objectives, and Attributes are terms that are often used interchangeably when making decisions.   Traditionally, people speak of criteria. We recommend focusing on "objectives" instead of criteria.  This helps clarify what should and sho...
  2. Importance of Hierarchical Structuring

    Humans have difficulty dealing with more than seven - plus or minus two - factors at a time.  To overcome this cognitive limitation, objectives can be structured into a hierarchy of clusters of elements.  One of the axioms of AHP is that the element...
  3. Groups Constraints

     The Groups page is where you can add or delete group constraints to be used in the optimization.  When using our Resource Aligner, groups of alternatives can be defined to assure that one of the following four relationships exist among the alte...
  4. Filter Alternatives

    You can specify alternatives be excluded or included in the Synthesize results using the Filter Alternatives dropdown.  Click  to expand the toolbar options, if collapsed.  By default, all alternatives are displayed. Show top N Alternatives....
  5. Select Participants and Groups

    You can display the Alternatives and Objectives priorities in Grids and Charts for one or more participants or groups. Click  to expand the toolbar options, if collapsed.  Clicking  will open a window displaying the participants and groups of th...
  6. Accuracy of Derived Priorities

    The accuracy of the priorities computed from pairwise relative comparisons has been validated over the years in numerous studies.   First, it has been shown that for a pairwise comparison matrix A = [ a     ij ] that is consistent (sometimes cal...
  7. Heuristics

    Heuristics are decision-making techniques that simplify the process of coming to a reasonable decision when the "perfect" decision is unreachable or unknowable.  Heuristics may be understood as mental shortcuts that enable individuals to make quic...
  8. Upload Data Grid

    After Downloading the Datagrid file of one of the participants, you can change data on the downloaded .xlsx file and upload it back to Comparion.  Note:  We recommend utilizing the Datagrid upload functionality primarily for uploading Alternat...
  9. September 20, 2022

    September 20, 2022 | Version 6.11.3 (514e0185023f) Bug Fixes Added proper validation when adding a participant with an empty e-mail address  Fixed the missing individual results when the logged in user is the custom column on the local results ...
  10. Machine Certificates

    You should have your own machine certificate, but if not you can create a self-generated certificate. To create a self-generated certificate: Start Powershell with administrator privileges Navigate to the Certs folder which is contained in the m...