An Investigation of Decomposed and Holistic Judgments in Multiattribute Decision Making: Generalizing the "Divide and Conquer" Principle

Abstract

273 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997.Data is reported that compared the convergent validity (e.g. the agreement between decomposed and holistic strategies), the temporal stability and the external validity (the agreement between a decision strategy and an objective criterion) for decomposed and holistic judgments from two popular multi-criteria decision making techniques, Saaty's (1977, 1980) Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and SMARTS, on a variety of dependent measures. Results indicate that the generality of DAC is indeed dependent upon the choice of the criterion variable.U of I OnlyRestricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETD