Even before the house lights come up in the theater, while the final credits for The Matrix Reloaded are rolling, the arguments begin. Is the character named Neo the Messiah? Will Zion be destroyed?

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This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Many queueing models have embedded Markov chains, whose invariant probability vector is of a (modified) matrix-geometric form. The rate matrix ...

The consistency of the pairwise comparison matrix (PCM) has been extensively studied in the Analytic Hierarchy Process. Most of the existing approaches for the consistency test of the PCM are based on ...