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  1. Redundant Judgments

    A minimum spanning set of judgments for a cluster of n elements consists of a set of n -1 judgments, in that every element can be "reached" from every other element.  It is necessary to have a spanning set of judgments in order to compute the pri...
  2. TeamTime Direct Entry

    Direct Entry is a measurement method used to evaluate alternatives and/or objectives with respect to another objective or criterion.  Direct Entry measurement accepts numbers from 0.0 to 1.0 (i.e. 0% to 100%) Participants enter Direct priorities...
  3. Soft Custom Constraints

    Soft Constraints have the following properties: - As a type of Custom Constraint, Soft Constraints are always numeric. - Soft Custom Constraints are ignored by the Solver in arriving at optimal funding solutions. - Soft Custom Constraint column h...
  4. Why All Important Decisions are Subjective

    AHP (along with other multiple objective methods --discussed below) differs in a significant way from most/all other Management Science/Operations Research methods which focus on an "objective" function – singular.  Taking the "best" course of actio...
  5. Overall Results (Global Priorities)

    The priorities of the alternatives with respect to the Goal are shown on this screen: Depending on the Project Manager, the participants and/or combined results can be displayed.  Clicking on a lower level node in the objectives hierarchy will ...
  6. Apply a new license file

    Open up a browser and browse to the URL you specified for your Comparion installation. Login as admin using the admin password Repeat the next steps for every workgroup you have, including the System Workgroup Click the Edit Workgroup button Cl...
  7. Structuring

    In conformity with the second of the three AHP axioms originally proposed by Saaty, the elements of any cluster should be "homogeneous," meaning that they should differ in importance from one another by no more than an order of magnitude. This req...
  8. Validation exercises

    Brightness of Light Experiment Area Validation Experiment The relative areas of different geometric shapes (each within an order of magnitude) were derived from pairwise verbal judgments for shapes such as the following:  This experiment...
  9. Screening

    When there are hard and fast "criteria" (as opposed to "objectives"), it is useful to screen out alternatives that do not satisfy the criteria.  For example, alternatives for a decision may be required to be "technically feasible."  Alternatives tha...
  10. 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 ...