Figure 3
The left side displays weighted branches: “Goal: Equipment Acquisition” splits into “Benefit (L: 0.625)”, “Cost Estimation (L: 0.238)”, and “Risk (L: 0.136)”. Under “Benefit (L: 0.625)”, the sub-elements are “Equipment Uniqueness (L: 0.250)” and “Utilization (L: 0.750)”. “Utilization (L: 0.750)” branches into “Teaching (L: 0.458)”, “Research (L: 0.416)”, and “Service Provision (L: 0.126)”. Under “Risk (L: 0.238)”, the sub-elements are “Supplier Representation (L: 0.517)”, “Asset Obsolescence (L: 0.124)”, and “Utilization Potential (L: 0.359)”. “Asset Obsolescence (L: 0.124)” further branches into “After-Sales Service (L: 0.800)” and “Model Age (L: 0.200)”. On the right side, a horizontal bar chart titled “Synthesis with respect to: Goal: Equipment Acquisition (Overall Inconsistency equals 0.02)” ranks the lowest-level objectives with these weights: “Cost Estimation 0.238”, “Teaching 0.215”, “Research 0.195”, “Equipment Uniqueness 0.156”, “Supplier Representation 0.071”, “Service Provision 0.059”, “Utilization Potential 0.049”, “After-Sales Service 0.014”, and “Model Age 0.003”.Weights obtained from the pairwise comparison of the objectives