Selective assessment of judgmental inconsistencies in pairwise comparisons for group decision rating

Pairwise comparison methods are convenient procedures for providing a sound weight vector from a set of binary comparisons between elements to be rated. In such procedures, each decision maker is asked to separately consider pairs of elements which are not necessarily independent from each other. For this reason the votes collected are liable to contain inconsistencies. In this paper we are providing a selective indicator that focuses on the inconsistencies the decision group is willing to correct in conformity with its vote strategy. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.