Abstract—It is well known that the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) of Saaty is one of the most powerful approach for decision aid in solving of a multi criteria decision making (MCDM) problem. Several computing weights methods in AHP are analyzed. Based on least square method, three methods for calculating weights using the least the sum of squares of error criterion, the least the sum of erro...

We present a new algorithm for approximate joint diagonalization of several symmetric matrices. While it is based on the classical least squares criterion, a novel intrinsic scale constraint leads to a simple and easily parallelizable algorithm, called LSDIC (Least squares Diagonalization under an Intrinsic Constraint). Numerical simulations show that the algorithm behaves well as compared to o...