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9th WSEAS International Conference on Distance Learning and Web Engineering, Budapest, Hungary, 3 - 05 September 2009, pp.38-39
Consistency in multy criteria decision-making means that if a basic amount of raw data is available than all other data can be logically deduced from it. When relations among all criteria involved in a decision-making are graphically represented by a directed complete graph a cycle of length 3 in the complete graph results in a consistency ratio smaller than the accepted limit, while introducing a cycle of length 4 makes the consistency ratio goes above the accepted limit. In this paper we employ directed complete graphs for preserving the consistency ratio within the accepted limit in a multy criteria decision-making process.