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Step 2: Graphical Representation of the Problem
With the identified objective, criteria and alternatives we can now build the
hierarchical tree for our match point, as depicted in Fig. 4.

Objective

Entger Subway MatchPoint
Concerns ranking

Contribution Importance

Criteria

Importance
Passenger

Importance
Dev eloper

Importance
System Owner

Alternatives

Validate
card

Availability

...

Response
time

Fig. 4. Graphical representation of the enter subway match point

Step 3: Establish Priorities
As mentioned, AHP uses a pairwise comparison matrix to determine the ratings of
judgements and comparisons are quantified by using the AHP [1..9] scale. In our
example, the pairwise matrices are shown in Tables 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12.

Table 7. Pairwise comparison matrix for criterion Contribution (4th level of tree)

Table 8. Pairwise comparison matrix for importance of stakeholder Passenger (4 th level of tree)