A generalized topology in a set X is a collection Cov X of families of subsets of X such that the triple (X, Cov X , Cov X ) is a generalized topological space in the sense of Delfs and Knebusch. In this work, notions of topological and admissible compactness of generalized topologies are introduced to begin and investigate a theory of compactifications, in particular, of Wallman type in the category of weakly normal generalized topological spaces. Among other facts, we prove in ZF that the ultrafilter theorem (in abbreviation UFT) holds if and only if all Wallman extensions of every weakly normal generalized topological space are compact. In consequence, we develop the theory of compactifications in ZF+UFT when it is not necessary to use AC, while ZF is not enough.
This study examines the notion of inconsistency in pairwise comparisons for providing an axiomatization for it. It also proposes two inconsistency indicators for pairwise comparisons. The primary motivation for the inconsistency reduction is expressed by a computer industry concept "garbage in, garbage out". The quality of the output depends on the quality of the input.
This study has been inspired by numerous requests from researchers who often confuse Saaty's AHP with the Pairwise Comparisons (PC) method, taking AHP as the only representation of PC. Most formal
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