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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Operations Research Volume 2012, Article ID 574710, 17 pages doi:10.1155/2012/574710 Research Article Deriving Weights of Criteria from Inconsistent Fuzzy Comparison Matrices by Using the Nearest Weighted Interval Approximation Mohammad Izadikhah Department of Mathematics, Islamic Azad University, Arak-Branch, Arak, Iran Correspondence should be addressed to Mohammad Izadikhah, m izadikhah@ Received 2 March 2012; Accepted 25 April 2012 Academic Editor: Yi Kuei Lin Copyright q 2012 Mohammad Izadikhah. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Deriving the weights of criteria from the pairwise comparison matrix with fuzzy elements is investigated. In the proposed method we first convert each element of the fuzzy comparison matrix into the nearest weighted interval approximation one. Then by using the goal programming method we derive the weights of criteria. The presented method is able to find weights of fuzzy pairwise comparison matrices in any form. We compare the results of the presented method with some of the existing methods. The approach is illustrated by some numerical examples. 1. Introduction Weight estimation technique in multiple criteria decision making MADM problem has been extensively applied in many areas such as selection, evaluation, planning and development, decision making, and forecasting 1. The conventional MADM requires exact judgments. In the process of multiple criteria decision making, a decision maker sometimes uses a fuzzy preference relation to express his/her uncertain preference information due to the complexity and uncertainty o