weight-elicitation

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Determine criteria weights using AHP, Swing, BWM, MACBETH, or Simos methods.

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Weight Elicitation

Purpose: Determine relative weights for evaluation criteria through structured methods, supporting AHP, Swing, BWM, MACBETH, Simos, and other weighting methods.

When to use:

Need to determine criteria importance ranking and quantified weights
Multiple stakeholders disagree on weights
Need to compare result differences across weighting methods

Budget

Base SOP	Target	±10% Range
criterion-definition	5-8 criteria	4-9
weight-elicitation-sop	≥2 methods	2-3
rank-comparison	1 comparison	1

State Ledger

strategy: weight-elicitation
status: pending
criteria_defined: false
method_1: null
method_2: null
weights_1: []
weights_2: []
compared: false
final_weights: []

Available Tactics

multi-method-triangulation — Multi-method comparison to ensure weight robustness

Available SOPs

Import

criterion-definition
weight-elicitation-sop
rank-comparison

Subagent

method-sensitivity-report

Execution Guidance

Invoke criterion-definition to confirm criteria to be weighted
Select >=2 weighting methods (recommended: AHP + BWM or Swing + Simos)
Invoke weight-elicitation-sop separately for each method to compute weights
Invoke rank-comparison to compare weight ranking consistency
If significant differences exist, analyze causes and select the most suitable method for the scenario
Output final weight vector

Output Format

## Weight Determination Results

### Weight Comparison
| Criterion | AHP Weight | BWM Weight | Average | Difference |
|-----------|------------|------------|---------|------------|

### Consistency Check
- AHP CR: [value] (< 0.1 ✓)
- BWM ξ*: [value]

### Final Weights
| Criterion | Weight | Rank |
|-----------|--------|------|

### Method Selection Rationale
[Why the chosen method's weights are used as the final result]

Available Tactics

Optional, no fixed order; the final leaf is always a sop.

Tactic	When to use
multi-method-triangulation	Apply 2-3 MCDA methods to the same candidates, compare rankings, and identify method-sensitive options.

Available SOPs

Optional, no fixed order; the final leaf is always a sop.

SOP	When to use
criterion-definition	Extract evaluation criteria from research goals and candidate alternatives.
weight-elicitation-sop	Compute criteria weights using a specified elicitation method (AHP, Swing, BWM, MACBETH, or Simos).