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Advances in Operations Research
Volume 2012, Article ID 574710, 17 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/574710
Research Article

Deriving Weights of Criteria from Inconsistent Fuzzy Comparison Matrices by Using the Nearest Weighted Interval Approximation

Mohammad Izadikhah

Department of Mathematics, Islamic Azad University, Arak-Branch, Arak, Iran

Received 2 March 2012; Accepted 25 April 2012

Academic Editor: Yi Kuei Lin

Copyright © 2012 Mohammad Izadikhah. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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