item: #1 of 388 id: ijahp-1003 author: Maryam Bagheri Fard Sharabiani; Gholamian, Mohammad Reza Gholamian; Seyed Farid Ghannadpour title: A NEW SOLUTION FOR INCOMPLETE AHP MODEL USING GOAL PROGRAMMING AND SIMILARITY FUNCTION date: 2023-03-01 words: 7351 flesch: 56 summary: This study aims to calculate the weight vector gained from incomplete pairwise comparison matrices in the AHP by employing the similarity function and goal programming (GP) techniques. Numerical example In this section, examples of incomplete pairwise comparison matrices in different dimensions, taken from the study of Zhou et al. keywords: ahp; comparison; consistency; decision; elements; goal; group; incomplete; matrix; model; pairwise; process; ∗ ∗ cache: ijahp-1003.pdf plain text: ijahp-1003.txt item: #2 of 388 id: ijahp-101 author: Bottero, Marta; Ferretti, Valentina; Pomarico, Silvia title: ASSESSING THE SUSTAINABILITY OF ALTERNATIVE TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURES date: 2012-06-18 words: 7868 flesch: 41 summary: The problem has been divided into five clusters (economic aspects, environmental aspects, social aspects, transport aspects and urban planning aspects) that were organized according to the BOCR model. Environmental aspects 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Economic aspects Environmental aspects 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Social aspects Environmental aspects 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Transport aspects Environmental aspects 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Urban planning aspects Economic aspects 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Social aspects Economic aspects 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Transport aspects Economic aspects 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Urban planning aspects Social aspects 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Transport aspects Social aspects 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Urban planning aspects Transport aspects 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Urban planning aspects M. Bottero, V. Ferretti, S. Pomarico / Assessing the Sustainability of Alternative Transport Infrastructures International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 67 Vol. 4 Issue 1 2012 ISSN 1936-6744 Table 4 Cluster matrix for the Benefits subnetwork Alternatives Environmental aspects Economic aspects Social aspects Transport aspects Urban planning aspects Alternatives 0.000 0.750 0.594 1.000 0.400 1.000 Environmental aspects 0.040 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.046 0.000 Economic aspects 0.186 0.000 0.249 0.000 0.275 0.000 keywords: alternative; analysis; anp; aspects; benefits; criteria; decision; journal; process; transport; transport aspects cache: ijahp-101.pdf plain text: ijahp-101.txt item: #3 of 388 id: ijahp-1012 author: Shih, Hsu-Shih title: SUBJECTIVE GEOMETRY FOR PROBLEM MODELING IN THE ANALYTIC HIERARCHY/NETWORK PROCESSES date: 2022-09-02 words: 4582 flesch: 52 summary: Keywords: structure problem; subjective geometry; Analytic Hierarchy Process; Analytic Network Process; decision making; problem modeling 1. The general process for solving problems is outlined in Figure 1. Real-world problem Solution Simplified problem Model Verification Validation Implementation IJAHP Article: Shih/Subjective geometry for problem modeling in the Analytic Hierarchy/Network Processes International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 3 Vol. 14 Issue 2 2022 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v14i2.1012 Figure 1 Problem-solving process (Shih & Olson, 2022) keywords: anp; decision; doi; geometry; hierarchy; journal; network; problem; process; saaty; shih cache: ijahp-1012.pdf plain text: ijahp-1012.txt item: #4 of 388 id: ijahp-102 author: Fusco Girard, Luigi; Cerreta, Maria; De Toro, Pasquale title: ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS (AHP) AND GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS (GIS): AN INTEGRATED SPATIAL ASSESSMENT FOR PLANNING STRATEGIC CHOICES date: 2012-06-18 words: 7208 flesch: 20 summary: Jankowski, P., Nyerges, T.L., Smith, A., Moore, T.J., & Horvath, E. (1997),Spatial group choice: a SDSS tool for collaborative spatial decision making, International Journal of Geographical Information Systems, 11(6), 566–602. Joerin, F., & Musy, A. (2000), Land management with GIS and multicriteria analysis, International Transactions in Operational Research, 7, 67–78. In this kind of decision-making process, local communities can contribute actively to the implementation and updating of GIS data thus improving the evaluation of alternative strategies and actions. keywords: ahp; assessment; choices; decision; gis; hierarchy process; information; making; planning; process; susceptibility; systems cache: ijahp-102.pdf plain text: ijahp-102.txt item: #5 of 388 id: ijahp-1025 author: Mu, Enrique title: Reporting Public Multicriteria Decision-Making Applications:: A Journal Editor’s Perspective date: 2022-09-07 words: 1271 flesch: 43 summary: Group decision making: Drawing out and reconciling differences. Practical decision making using Super Decisions v3: Springer. keywords: decision; making; process; public cache: ijahp-1025.pdf plain text: ijahp-1025.txt item: #6 of 388 id: ijahp-1027 author: Karpak, Birsen title: Theory and Applications of AHP/ANP at MCDM 2022 date: 2022-09-07 words: 2017 flesch: 35 summary: The Scientific Program Committee consisted of Matthias Ehrgott, Lancaster University, UK; Carlos Coello Coello, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico; Kerstin Daechert, Fraunhofer Institute ITWM, Germany; Michalis Doumpos, Technical University of Crete, Greece, José Rui Figueira, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal; Salvatore Greco, University of Catania, Italy; Birsen Karpak, Youngstown State University, USA; Kathrin Klamroth, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany; Murat Köksalan, Michigan University, USA; Banu Lokman, University of Portsmouth, UK; Alessio Ishizaka, University of Portsmouth, UK; Dylan Jones, University of Portsmouth, UK; Caroline Mota, University of Pernambuco, Brazil; Francisco Ruiz, University of Malaga, Spain; Hsu-Shih Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan; Johannes Siebert, Management Center Innsbruck, Austria; Theo Stewart, University of Cape Town, South Africa; İlker Topçu, İstanbul Technical University, Turkey; and last, but not least, Jyrki Wallenius, Aalto University, Finland. Luis Vargas from University of Pittsburgh, USA, (coauthors Marcel Minutolo from Robert Morris University, USA and Amos Guiora from University of Utah, USA) presented “How to Measure the Impact of Gun Laws on Lawful Owners of Guns.” keywords: ahp; anp; applications; conference; hierarchy; mcdm; theory; university cache: ijahp-1027.pdf plain text: ijahp-1027.txt item: #7 of 388 id: ijahp-1032 author: Mu, Enrique title: IJAHP Articles are Now More Accessible than Ever: Full Open Access date: 2022-09-24 words: 274 flesch: 53 summary: It is expected that the lack of registration requirement and the storing of published articles in authors’ academic repositories will make IJAHP authors’ research more accessible than ever; that is, they will be in full open access mode. First, we moved to a rolling article publication mode; that is, articles are published as soon as they are fully reviewed, accepted and copyedited. keywords: ijahp cache: ijahp-1032.pdf plain text: ijahp-1032.txt item: #8 of 388 id: ijahp-1033 author: Kahraman, Cengiz; Cebi, Selcuk; Onar, Sezi Çevik; Öztayşi, Başar title: Recent Developments on Fuzzy AHP&ANP Under Vague and Imprecise Data : Evidence from INFUS Conferences date: 2022-09-24 words: 8448 flesch: 48 summary: Consistency measurement is an important problem area of fuzzy AHP methods. Pythagorean fuzzy AHP method for the selection of the most appropriate clean energy technology. keywords: ahp; cebi; cevik; criteria; fuzzy; fuzzy ahp; infus; kahraman; onar; oztaysi; systems; tolga cache: ijahp-1033.pdf plain text: ijahp-1033.txt item: #9 of 388 id: ijahp-1034 author: Kahraman, Cenghiz title: INFUS Conference date: 2022-09-24 words: 472 flesch: 37 summary: Symmetry (SCI-E)  International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems (SCI-E)  Journal of Multiple-Valued Logic and Soft Computing (SCI-E)  Journal of Information Assurance and Security (ESCI)  International Journal of Risk Analysis and Crisis Response (DOAJ)  Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Modeling in Engineering (Scopus)  International Journal of Analytic Hierarchy Process (Scopus) IJAHP News and Events: Kahraman/INFUS conferences International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 3 Vol. 14 Issue 2 2022 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v14i2.1034 X` Program and Social Events Up to now, hundreds of articles have been published in the following journals:  Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems (SCI-E)  keywords: journal cache: ijahp-1034.pdf plain text: ijahp-1034.txt item: #10 of 388 id: ijahp-1040 author: Akhrouf, Mohamed; Derghoum, Mahfoudh title: The USE OF A MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION SUPPORT MODEL BASED ON THE AHP METHOD FOR THE SELECTION OF HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS date: 2023-03-09 words: 8459 flesch: 40 summary: The problem was modeled using the Expert Choice software which allows a good “integration of the decision-maker” in the decision-making process making it possible to intervene in the research and decisions to identify the most efficient and potentially profitable health projects that are useful to the community Keywords: project selection; health infrastructure projects; multi-criteria decision support; AHP; Analytical Hierarchy Process 1. Based on a review of the existing literature on the selection of health infrastructure projects, little research exists that uses the AHP or its extensive forms in this area. keywords: ahp; criteria; criterion; decision; health; health infrastructure; hierarchy process; infrastructure projects; international; journal; process model; projects; selection; use cache: ijahp-1040.pdf plain text: ijahp-1040.txt item: #11 of 388 id: ijahp-1063 author: Nik Badrul Alam, Nik Muhammad Farhan Hakim; Ku Khalif, Ku Muhammad Naim; Jaini, Nor Izzati title: Analytic Hierarchy Process Based on the Magnitude of Z-Numbers date: 2023-07-25 words: 5803 flesch: 55 summary: The development of the AHP using fuzzy numbers has received attention from many researchers due to the ability of fuzzy numbers to handle vagueness and uncertainty. According to Abdullahi et al. (2020), Z-numbers are the generalization of real, interval, and fuzzy numbers. keywords: ahp; fuzzy; hierarchy; magnitude; numbers; process cache: ijahp-1063.pdf plain text: ijahp-1063.txt item: #12 of 388 id: ijahp-1066 author: Wallenius , Hannele; Wallenius, Jyrki title: Focusing on Important Problems date: 2023-01-18 words: 2500 flesch: 49 summary: Wallenius and Wallenius/Focusing on important problems International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 1 Vol. 14 Issue 3 2022 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v14i3.1066 Focusing on Important Problems 1 Hannele Wallenius Aalto University School of Science Aalto University PO Box 11000 However, our general feeling is that bright, young people do not focus their energies sufficiently on solving important problems despite many very important problems that deserve attention. keywords: data; decision; journal; mcdm; problems; wallenius; world cache: ijahp-1066.pdf plain text: ijahp-1066.txt item: #13 of 388 id: ijahp-1067 author: Poveda, Cesar A title: USING MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION-MAKING TO ASSESS THE IMPORTANCE OF HUMAN CAPITAL IN MEETING THE GOALS AND OBJECTIVES OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: AN APPLICATION OF THE ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS date: 2023-04-11 words: 13566 flesch: 31 summary: Based on their origin, various resources for the identification and selection of human capital criteria and indicators can be clustered into the following four groups: commercially and research-based developed appraisal instruments; well- established, reliable, and reputable organizations, individuals or groups of academics and practitioners; and agreement reached through consensus. Figure 2 Resources for the identification and selection of human capital criteria and indicators a. Indices, ranking, surveys and others: public and private organizations develop commercial or research-based appraisal instruments using the composite index approach. keywords: capital; criteria; decision; development; economic; goals; hierarchy process; human; importance; indicators; international; journal; making; multi; objectives; poveda; process; social; sub; sustainability; weight cache: ijahp-1067.pdf plain text: ijahp-1067.txt item: #14 of 388 id: ijahp-1068 author: Słowiński, Roman title: 2022 MCDM Junior Researcher Best Paper Award date: 2023-02-03 words: 796 flesch: 41 summary: European Journal of Operational Research 298: 611-626. IJAHP News and Events: Slowinski/2022 MCDM Junior Researcher Best Paper Award International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 4 Vol. 14 Issue 3 2022 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v14i3.1068 Finalists with Roman Słowiński, the 2022 Jury Chair, Poznań University of Technology (on left), from left to right, Sune Lauth Gadegaard, Aarhus University, Denmark; Eleftherios Siskos, Paul Scherrer Institut Switzerland; Merve Bodur, University of Toronto, Canada; and Mohammad Ghaderi Pompeu Fabra University, Spain (the winner). 14 Issue 3 2022 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v14i3.1068 2022 MCDM Junior Researcher Best Paper Award Roman Słowiński 2022 Jury Chair Poznań University of Technology, Poland Mohammad Ghaderi, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain (right) with Roman Słowiński, the 2022 Jury Chair, Poznań University of Technology, Poland (left) was selected as the winner by the Jury The MCDM Junior Research Best Paper Award is bestowed by the MCDM Section of INFORMS. keywords: award; journal; mcdm; university cache: ijahp-1068.pdf plain text: ijahp-1068.txt item: #15 of 388 id: ijahp-1069 author: Karpak, Birsen; Słowiński, Roman title: Dr. Banu Lokman: 2022 Recipient of Prestigious Bernard Roy Award date: 2023-02-03 words: 731 flesch: 47 summary: 14 Issue 3 2022 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v14i3.1069 Dr. Banu Lokman: 2022 Recipient of Prestigious Bernard Roy Award Birsen Karpak Youngstown State University, USA Roman Słowiński Poznań University of Technology, Poland Their nomination letter to Professor Yannis Siskos, Chair of the Jury for the 2022 Bernard Roy Award of EWG-MCDA reads as follows: “As members of the EWG on MCDA, we would like to nominate Banu Lokman for the Bernard Roy Award 2022 of EWG-MCDA. keywords: award; bernard; mcda cache: ijahp-1069.pdf plain text: ijahp-1069.txt item: #16 of 388 id: ijahp-1071 author: Ujwary-Gil, Anna; Florek-Paszkowska, Anna; Koziol, Artur title: AHP/ANP Applications in Economic Policy, Business, and Management with the T. L. Saaty Decision Making Hackathon at ICEFM 2022 date: 2023-01-27 words: 3550 flesch: 28 summary: Issue 3 2022 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v14i3.1071 Zbigniew Makieła, Jagiellonian University, Poland; Carlos Mariño, Research Director, Centrum PUCP; Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru, Lima, Perú; Percy Marquina, Director General of Centrum PUCP; Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru, Lima, Perú; Mieczysław Morawski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland; Enrique Mu, Business Management, Accounting & Ethics; Carlow University, USA; Wiktor Patena, Higher Colleges of Technology, Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Halina Piekarz, Frycz Modrzewski Academy, Cracow, Poland; Yuji Sato, Chukyo University, Japan; Aldís G. Sigurðardóttir, University of Twente, The Netherlands; Roberto Solano-Mendez, Universidad de Las Américas Puebla, Mexico; Włodzimierz Sroka, WSB University, Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland; Kazimierz R. Śliwa, Frycz Modrzewski Academy, Cracow, Poland; Andrzej Szablewski, Institute of Economics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland; and Jon Mikel Zabala-Iturriagagoitia, Deusto Business School, Deusto University, Spain. The Scientific Committee consisted of Wiktor Adamus, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland; Wiktor Askanas, Member of Canadian Competition Tribunal, Professor Emeritus University of New Brunswick, Canada; Tor Helge Aas, University of Agder, Norway; Beatrice Avolio, Head of the Department of Graduate Studies in Business Academic Department, Centrum PUCP; Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru, Lima, Perú; Małgorzata Baran, Collegium Civitas, Warsaw, Poland; Krzysztof Bartosik, Institute of Economics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland; Barbara Błaszczyk; Institute of Economics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland; Ryszard Borowiecki, Cracow University of Economics, Poland; Wojciech Czakon, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland; Ivano Dileo, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy; Ondřej Dvouletý, University of Economics in Prague, Czech Republic; Jorge A. Dulan-Encalada, Universidad de Las Américas Puebla, Mexico; Józefa Famielec, Cracow University of Economics, Poland; Anna Florek- Paszkowska, Centrum PUCP, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Perú; Anna Fornalczyk, Comper, Lodz, Poland; Jörg Freiling, University of Bremen, Germany; Marta Gancarczyk, Jagiellonian University, Poland; Bianka Godlewska-Dzioboń, Cracow University of Economics, Poland; Piotr Jedynak, Jagiellonian University, Poland; Beata Jones, Honors Faculty Fellow, Texas Christian University, USA; Krzysztof Klincewicz, University of Warsaw, Poland; Artur Kozioł, Mayor of the Commune and the City of Wieliczka, Poland; Piotr Krajewski, prof. keywords: ahp; business; católica; decision; del; economics; lima; management; perú; poland; saaty; universidad; university cache: ijahp-1071.pdf plain text: ijahp-1071.txt item: #17 of 388 id: ijahp-1072 author: Karpak, Birsen; Mu, Enrique; Aktas, Emel; Topcu, Ilker title: Special Issues, Guest Editors’ Reflections date: 2023-01-27 words: 1416 flesch: 49 summary: One of the authors of this news article attended a conference with several journal editors. The deadline for special issue submissions to JMCDA is June 30, 2023. keywords: editors; issue; journal cache: ijahp-1072.pdf plain text: ijahp-1072.txt item: #18 of 388 id: ijahp-1073 author: Karpak, Birsen title: Upcoming Conferences of Interest to the AHP/ANP Community date: 2023-02-06 words: 592 flesch: 48 summary: Final registration deadline for authors In the scientific program, there is a cluster for Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis, in which there are already three active sessions: - AHP/ANP and Extensions (Birsen Karpak) - Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization (Ricardo Takahashi and Elizabeth Wanner) - New Frontiers in Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding (José Figueira, Salvatore Greco, Roman Slowinski) In the scientific program, there is a cluster for Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis, in which there will be at least one AHP/ANP invited session: - AHP/ANP and extensions (organized by Birsen Karpak and Ilker Topcu) keywords: ahp; anp cache: ijahp-1073.pdf plain text: ijahp-1073.txt item: #19 of 388 id: ijahp-1079 author: Guiora, Amos N.; Minutolo, Marcel C.; Vargas, Luis G.; Vargas, Margaret; Zoffer, H.J. title: ENHANCING POLICE-COMMUNITY RELATIONS VIA A CONFLICT RESOLUTION APPROACH date: 2023-05-12 words: 7535 flesch: 48 summary: The second is that the police believe that low-income communities are considered less worthy than others and as such not as deserving as other communities. However, we have presented an approach to open a dialogue between police and their communities to develop an understanding of how each party perceives what it IJAHP Article: Guiora, Minutolo, L. Vargas, M. Vargas, Zoffer/Enhancing police-community relations via a conflict resolution approach International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 17 Vol 15 Issue 1 2023 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v15i1.1079 needs and wants along with the corresponding priorities There is a need to validate these findings in other communities to gather more data to convince the police of the need to change the existing training models. keywords: approach; community; conflict; group; hierarchy; objectives; police; priorities; process; public; relations; resolution; vargas cache: ijahp-1079.pdf plain text: ijahp-1079.txt item: #20 of 388 id: ijahp-108 author: Lombardi, Patrizia; Giordano, Silvia title: EVALUATING THE EUROPEAN SMART CITIES VISIONS OF THE FUTURE date: 2012-06-18 words: 6261 flesch: 39 summary: In order to assess the connections between Smart city development and this institutionalization of the Triple Helix approach, an ANP model has been developed. This paper illustrates a novel application of an Analytic Network Process (ANP) in the field of Smart cities with the aim of investigating the interrelations between the components and sectors of Smart cities. keywords: cities; city; development; european; future; government; indicators; model; process; society; urban; visions cache: ijahp-108.pdf plain text: ijahp-108.txt item: #21 of 388 id: ijahp-1080 author: Mu, Enrique title: Multicriteria Decision Making as Interdisciplinary Research date: 2023-02-16 words: 1104 flesch: 45 summary: In conclusion, “decision-content” and “decision analysis” are two of the three intertwined but different dimensions of decision-making and can be approached with a MCDM analyst consulting with experts about the decision or with decision experts learning a friendly MCDM methodology, like the AHP/ANP, to perform their own analysis. Group decision making: Drawing out and reconciling differences. keywords: decision; making; mcdm cache: ijahp-1080.pdf plain text: ijahp-1080.txt item: #22 of 388 id: ijahp-109 author: Lami, Isabella Maria; Masala, Elena; Pensa, Stefano title: ANALYTIC NETWORK PROCESS (ANP) AND VISUALIZATION OF SPATIAL DATA: THE USE OF DYNAMIC MAPS IN TERRITORIAL TRANSFORMATION PROCESSES date: 2011-12-27 words: 5186 flesch: 43 summary: To obtain spatial visualizations of BOCR, a model was built using Grasshopper based on drawings, databases and GIS data such as infrastructures, built areas and geographical features. This paper shows the contribution that the visualization of spatial data can give to the Analytic Network Process (ANP) (Saaty, 2005; 2001; Saaty, Vargas, 2006). keywords: anp; aspects; data; maps; network; network process; process; processes; scenario; use; visualization cache: ijahp-109.pdf plain text: ijahp-109.txt item: #23 of 388 id: ijahp-11 author: Vargas, Luis title: Words from the Senior Editor date: 2009-04-18 words: 70 flesch: 46 summary: The IJAHP is a journal dedicated to the study, development and dissemination of a way of making decisions that departs from traditional approaches based on normative principles that cannot consider interactions among the factors that shape decisions. Today's economy, politics and social relations require that we consider interactions among all possible dimensions. keywords: ijahp cache: ijahp-11.pdf plain text: ijahp-11.txt item: #24 of 388 id: ijahp-113 author: Kopytov, Eugene; Demidovs, Vasilijs; Petukhova, Natalia title: APPLICATION OF THE ANALITIC HIERARCHY PROCESS IN DEVELOPMENT OF TRAIN SCHEDULE INFORMATION SYSTEMS date: 2011-12-27 words: 7865 flesch: 52 summary: Figure 1 Multitude of train schedule versions Keywords: multi-criteria analysis, Analytic Hierarchy Process, pairwise comparison, data model, train schedule, results visualization 1. keywords: criteria; data; demidovs; hierarchy; hierarchy process; kopytov; model; petukhova; process; schedule; schedule information; schedule systems; systems; train schedule cache: ijahp-113.pdf plain text: ijahp-113.txt item: #25 of 388 id: ijahp-119 author: Abastante, Francesca; Bottero, Marta; Lami, Isabella Maria title: USING THE ANALYTIC NETWORK PROCESS FOR ADDRESSING A TRANSPORT DECISION PROBLEM date: 2012-06-18 words: 9209 flesch: 51 summary: Tackling the issue of large- scale infrastructures involves dealing with a maze of decision elements which require new trans-disciplinary approaches. The full range of possible effects have been identified and grouped into three clusters (socio-economic aspects, environmental aspects and transport aspects). keywords: anp; aspects; corridor; decision; decision problem; environmental; issues; lami; network; problem; process; transport; transport decision; y m cache: ijahp-119.pdf plain text: ijahp-119.txt item: #26 of 388 id: ijahp-121 author: Amponsah, Christian Tabi title: APPLICATION OF MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING PROCESS TO DETERMINE CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS FOR PROCUREMENT OF CAPITAL PROJECTS UNDER PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS date: 2011-12-27 words: 8533 flesch: 48 summary: 3_Amponsah_Dec23_p__106-128-2 IJAHP Article: Amponsah, C.T. / Critical Success Factors for Procurement of Capital Projects under Public-Private Partnerships International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 107 Vol. 3 Issue 2 2011 ISSN 1936-6744 APPLICATION OF MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING PROCESS TO DETERMINE CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS FOR PROCUREMENT OF CAPITAL PROJECTS UNDER PUBLIC- PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS Christian Tabi Amponsah Faculty of Business and Management University Canada West, Vancouver, BC, Canada Email: chris_tabi@hotmail.com ABSTRACT Investigation about project success has attracted the interest of many researches and practitioners. A wide array of research methods have been used to determine the critical success factors of project success. keywords: capital; capital projects; csf; factors; hierarchy; international; journal; partnerships; process; procurement; projects; research; study; success; success factors cache: ijahp-121.pdf plain text: ijahp-121.txt item: #27 of 388 id: ijahp-123 author: Lipovetsky, Stan title: PRIORITY EIGENVECTORS IN ANALYTIC HIERARCHY/NETWORK PROCESSES WITH OUTER DEPENDENCE BETWEEN ALTERNATIVES AND CRITERIA date: 2011-12-27 words: 3084 flesch: 53 summary: The least squares approximation of the matrix of priority vectors in (1) by two vectors can be written as follows: ∑ −= ij jiijaLS 2)( βλα , (7) where α is a vector of priorities, β can be understood as a vector of reciprocal priorities, or anti-priorities, and their outer product corresponds to pairwise ratio elements of the matrix (1). Eventually the converged solution for the system (4), or the solution for the supermatrix (2), can be interpreted explicitly as follows: the vector of alternative priorities β is the average of the alternatives with weights of the mean criteria; and vice versa – the vector of criteria priorities α is the average of the criteria with weights of the mean alternatives. keywords: alternatives; criteria; eigenvectors; hierarchy; network; priority cache: ijahp-123.pdf plain text: ijahp-123.txt item: #28 of 388 id: ijahp-124 author: Saaty, Thomas L. title: THE SERIOUS OMISSION OF COMPARISONS IN ARISTOTLE'S LAW OF THOUGHT date: 2011-12-27 words: 909 flesch: 66 summary: The significant conclusion is that to know if anything is identical with itself, it is necessary to compare it with itself and with other things with respect to a certain property P and also compare P with other properties as to which is possessed by x and which is not. But absolute identity has no meaning unless one thinks of relative identity, which means relative to other things. keywords: law cache: ijahp-124.pdf plain text: ijahp-124.txt item: #29 of 388 id: ijahp-125 author: De Felice, Fabio title: Special Report on ISAHP2011 date: 2011-12-27 words: 538 flesch: 33 summary: De Felice/ Special Report on ISAHP2011 Meeting   International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 183 Vol. 3 Issue 2 2011 ISSN 1936-6744     ISAHP   represents   the   chance   for   many   researchers   and   scientists   around   the   world   to   get   together   and   present   their   own   studies   and   research   in   this   important  field.   De Felice/ Special Report on ISAHP2011 Meeting   International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 181 Vol. 3 Issue 2 2011 ISSN 1936-6744     Fabio  De  Felice  –  Executive  Organizer  of   ISAHP2011,  University  of  Cassino,  ITALY Antonella  Petrillo  –  Executive   Secretary  of  ISAHP2011,   University  of  Cassino   Special  Report  on  ISAHP2011                                       Dear  Colleagues  and  Friends,     I  am  proud  and  honored  to  contribute  to  this  issue  of  the  International  Journal  on   the   Analytic   Hierarchy   Process.   keywords: isahp2011 cache: ijahp-125.pdf plain text: ijahp-125.txt item: #30 of 388 id: ijahp-126 author: Mu, Enrique title: Saaty Honorary Doctorate date: 2011-12-27 words: 257 flesch: 39 summary: Thomas Saaty (L.) and Wiktor Adamus at award ceremony in Krakow, Poland, in October Rob Typewritten Text http://dx.doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v3i2.126 ISSN 1936-6744     Saaty  Honorary  Doctorate             Thomas   Saaty   (l.)   received   an   honorary   doctorate   (Doctor  Causa  Honoris)   from   Jagiellonian   University,   Krakow,   Poland,   in   October,   2011,   for   developing   the   Analytic   Hierarchy   Process.   keywords: poland cache: ijahp-126.pdf plain text: ijahp-126.txt item: #31 of 388 id: ijahp-13 author: Saaty, Thomas L. title: DECISIONS, STRUCTURE, AND NATURAL LAW date: 2009-04-18 words: 10956 flesch: 59 summary: Their product is a function of several complex variables and is the solution of the equation 1 1 ( ) ( ) n n k k k k k k k k w a z b w z = = =∏ ∏ The product of solutions of )()( Keywords: Judgment, stimulus-response, natural law, response function, operator, Fundamental Equation 1. keywords: = =; decision; functions; judgment; k k; law; process; response; solution; structure cache: ijahp-13.pdf plain text: ijahp-13.txt item: #32 of 388 id: ijahp-130 author: Garuti, Claudio; Salomon, Valerio A.P. title: COMPATIBILITY INDICES BETWEEN PRIORITY VECTORS date: 2012-12-11 words: 3324 flesch: 57 summary: Perhaps for small element vectors S should have an incompatibility index limit higher than 1.1; however, initial studies show that S may present a trend to divergence in the presence of small numbers. The process involves a composition of priority vectors given as the columns of a matrix according to certain rules”. keywords: compatibility; index; priority; vectors cache: ijahp-130.pdf plain text: ijahp-130.txt item: #33 of 388 id: ijahp-131 author: Dave, Harshit K.; Desai, Keyur P; Raval, Harit K title: A DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR TOOL ELECTRODE SELECTION FOR ELECTRO DISCHARGE MACHINING PROCESS USING THE ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS date: 2012-10-02 words: 4775 flesch: 55 summary: A good amount of research work has been carried out in the past on materials selection [3-16]. Various approaches have been proposed in the past to help address the issue of material selection. keywords: decision; electrode; process; selection; tool; × × cache: ijahp-131.pdf plain text: ijahp-131.txt item: #34 of 388 id: ijahp-132 author: Lipovetsky, Stan title: THE SUPERMATRIX EIGENPROBLEM: AN INTERPRETATION OF THE PRIORITY VECTORS IN THE ANALYTIC NETWORK PROCESS date: 2013-05-07 words: 3578 flesch: 63 summary: Priority eigenvectors in Analytic Hierarchy/Network Processes with outer dependence between alternatives and criteria. Table 1 Supermatrix of local priority vectors for “Turnaround in the US economy” (Saaty, 1996) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .833 .833 keywords: hierarchy; lipovetsky; network; priority; process; supermatrix; table cache: ijahp-132.pdf plain text: ijahp-132.txt item: #35 of 388 id: ijahp-135 author: Beshah, Birhanu; Kitaw, Daniel title: AHP APPLICATION IN A FINANCIAL INSTITUTION date: 2013-07-30 words: 7139 flesch: 45 summary: The sub-criteria of project financial criteria include: 1. Identification of criteria The identification of project evaluation criteria is the most important stage in the application of AHP for project selection. keywords: ahp; application; bank; criteria; decision; discounting; hierarchy; making; process; project; rank; sub cache: ijahp-135.pdf plain text: ijahp-135.txt item: #36 of 388 id: ijahp-139 author: Saaty, Thomas L.; Zoffer, H. J. title: NINA'S DECISION: HOW TO MAKE BETTER DECISIONS AND RESOLVE CONFLICTS- AN ESSAY FOR THE LAYMAN date: 2012-06-18 words: 3841 flesch: 59 summary: Saaty, T.L., Zoffer, H.J. / Nina’s Decision: How to Make Better Decisions and Resolve Conflicts International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 78 Vol. 4 Issue 1 2012 ISSN 1936-6744 NINA’S DECISION: HOW TO MAKE BETTER DECISIONS AND RESOLVE CONFLICTS AN ESSAY FOR THE LAYMAN Thomas L. Saaty Distinguished University Professor University of Pittsburgh saaty@katz.pitt.edu H.J. Zoffer Dean Emeritus and Professor of Business Administration University of Pittsburgh zoffer@katz.pitt.edu Decision making is a central activity of all people, usually done so automatically that we do not even realize that we are doing it every moment of every day of every year for all our lives. Saaty, T.L., Zoffer, H.J. / Nina’s Decision: How to Make Better Decisions and Resolve Conflicts International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 79 Vol. 4 Issue 1 2012 ISSN 1936-6744 this process should also assist in building consensus and reaching a compromise. keywords: ahp; conflict; decision; hierarchy; judgments; nina; process cache: ijahp-139.pdf plain text: ijahp-139.txt item: #37 of 388 id: ijahp-14 author: Saaty, Thomas L. title: An Essay on How Judgment and Measurement are Different in Science and in Decision Making date: 2009-04-18 words: 925 flesch: 49 summary: Priority scales do not have a zero nor do they have a fixed and invariable unit. In science, measurements of factors with different ratio scales are combined by means of formulas. keywords: decision; science cache: ijahp-14.pdf plain text: ijahp-14.txt item: #38 of 388 id: ijahp-140 author: Mu, Enrique title: AHP PAPER ON THE POSSIBILITY OF GROUP WELFARE FUNCTIONS WINS HERBERT SIMON AWARD date: 2012-06-18 words: 259 flesch: 38 summary: 7 Final News Herbert Simon Award Final Paper IJAHP News: AHP Paper on the Possibility of Group Welfare Functions Wins Herbert Simon Award International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 87 Vol. 4 Issue 1 2012 ISSN 1936-6744 AHP PAPER ON THE POSSIBILITY OF GROUP WELFARE FUNCTIONS WINS HERBERT SIMON AWARD Warm congratulations to Luis Vargas (top) and Thomas Saaty who won the 2011 Herbert Simon Award for Outstanding Contribution in Information Technology and Decision Making for their paper “THE POSSIBILITY OF GROUP WELFARE FUNCTIONS” published in the International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making (IJITDM), 2005, vol. 04, issue 02, pages 167- 176. Clarity of writing and/or presentation IJITDM has a new ISI Web of Knowledge Impact Factor of 3.139, ranking of 7th out of 108 in the categories of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, 5th out of 126 in Computer Science and Information Systems, 7th out of 97 in Computer Science and Interdisciplinary Application, and 3rd out of 74 in Operations Research & Management Science. keywords: paper cache: ijahp-140.pdf plain text: ijahp-140.txt item: #39 of 388 id: ijahp-143 author: De Felice, Fabio title: INTRODUCTION TO SPECIAL ISSUE ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT date: 2012-06-19 words: 639 flesch: 36 summary: 1 Final_Fabio_De_Felice_Editorial IJAHP Editorial: De Felice, Fabio / Introduction to Special Issue on Sustainable Development International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 2 Vol. 4 Issue 1 2012 ISSN 1936-6744 Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to introduce the first special issue on AHP/ANP: Multicriteria Decision Making for Sustainable Development. The aim of this special issue is to provide a selection of papers from researchers, academics, and practitioners that provide significant insights into the area of Decision Making for Sustainable Development. keywords: development; issue cache: ijahp-143.pdf plain text: ijahp-143.txt item: #40 of 388 id: ijahp-146 author: Mu, Enrique title: WORDS FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF date: 2012-06-18 words: 198 flesch: 43 summary: Finally, and as usual, Rozann Saaty, IJAHP managing editor, was key to getting all the papers ready for publication. 0 Final_Preface_Mu IJAHP Editorial: Mu, E. / Words from the Editor-in-Chief International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 1 Vol. 4 Issue 1 2012 ISSN 1936-6744 June 2012 Dear IJAHP Readers: keywords: issue cache: ijahp-146.pdf plain text: ijahp-146.txt item: #41 of 388 id: ijahp-153 author: Jain, Rahi; Rao, Bakul title: APPLICATION OF AHP TOOL FOR DECISION MAKING OF CHOICE OF TECHNOLOGY FOR EXTRACTION OF ANTI-CANCER BIOACTIVE COMPOUNDS OF PLANT ORIGIN date: 2013-07-30 words: 11713 flesch: 48 summary: IJAHP Article: Jain, Rao/ Application of AHP Tool For Decision Making of Choice of Technology For Extraction of Anti-Cancer Bioactive Compounds of Plant Origin International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 8 Vol.5 Issue 1 2013 ISSN 1936-6744 (Note: Medicinal Plants in Bold and Italics gets more than 20% subsidy and have anti-cancer property, *: Literature have shown its anticancer property but no specific compound has been reported and hence not considered for this study, **: Lack of adequate literature to confirm the extraction technology) 2.2 Selection of extraction technology/alternative Most of the techniques used in modern herbal processing make use of solvent extraction technology, which is based on the principle of distribution of one or more components between two immiscible or almost immiscible liquids. Methodology 2.1 Selection of medicinal plants 2.2 Selection of extraction technology/alternative 2.2.1 Stage 1: Identification of extraction alternatives for medicinal plants 2.2.2 Stage 2: Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) 2.2.2.2 Criteria weightages 2.2.2.3 Criteria scores for technology 2.2.2.4 Technology ranking 2.2.2.5 Sensitivity analysis 3. keywords: ahp; application; cancer; characteristics; choice; compounds; cost; criteria; decision; entrepreneur; extraction; extraction technology; hierarchy; hierarchy process; journal; linn; making; origin; plants; process; score; solvent; technology; tool cache: ijahp-153.pdf plain text: ijahp-153.txt item: #42 of 388 id: ijahp-157 author: Mu, Enrique title: Words from the Editor-in-Chief date: 2012-12-10 words: 413 flesch: 55 summary: Also, beginning with this issue we have started publishing with an attractive cover designed by Antonella Petrillo who joined our editorial board for the special issue this year, Vol. 4, Issue 1, AHP/ANP Multicriteria Decision Making on Sustainable Development, and who is staying on now on a permanent basis as our assistant managing editor. Also, this issue includes an essay about how to get articles published in our journal and offers some valuable tips to would-be authors. keywords: issue cache: ijahp-157.pdf plain text: ijahp-157.txt item: #43 of 388 id: ijahp-158 author: Ferretti, Valentina title: INFORMS 2012 Highlights date: 2012-12-10 words: 491 flesch: 26 summary: The third AHP/ANP session, titled “AHP/ANP for sustainability” and chaired by Professor Birsen Karpak, took place on Wednesday the 17th and brought together research and applications in the information system field (Taraszewski S. and Karpak B.), for third party logistic companies evaluation (Bayazit O. and Karpak B.), in the sustainable supply chains domain (Karpak B. and Lamb C.) and in the women owned small businesses field (McMahon A. and Karpak B.). In a nutshell, the first AHP/ANP session, titled “AHP/ANP applications” and chaired by Professor Birsen Karpak, took place on Sunday the 14th and brought together contributions ranging from spatial ANP in the context of undesirable facilities location problems (Ferretti V.), to the evaluation of the performance of the Brazilian financial managers through the AHP (Autran L.F. and Andrade R.), to the evaluation of emergency distribution centers (Ozaydin O. and Topcu I.), to Cloud Computing Vendor Selection for the City of Pittsburgh (Mu E. and Stern H.). keywords: ahp; anp; meeting cache: ijahp-158.pdf plain text: ijahp-158.txt item: #44 of 388 id: ijahp-159 author: Mu, Enrique title: PUBLISHING ARTICLES IN THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS date: 2012-12-10 words: 1450 flesch: 48 summary: Potential authors are encouraged to review published articles in the IJAHP and similar journals to become familiar with other best practices. In general, authors should review the reporting requirements, based on published articles, of their target journals. keywords: ahp; ijahp; journal cache: ijahp-159.pdf plain text: ijahp-159.txt item: #45 of 388 id: ijahp-160 author: Saaty, Thomas L. title: GETTING PRIORITIES FROM A CROWD: COMBINING JUDGMENTS FROM PEOPLE WITH DIFFERING PERSPECTIVES date: 2012-12-10 words: 577 flesch: 52 summary: T. Saaty/ Getting Priorities from a Crowd International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 161 Vol. 4 Issue 2 2012 ISSN 1936-6744 GETTING PRIORITIES FROM A CROWD: COMBINING JUDGMENTS FROM PEOPLE WITH DIFFERING PERSPECTIVES Thomas L. Saaty University of Pittsburgh Katz Graduate School of Business Pittsburgh, PA 15230 saaty@katz.pitt.edu As people examine and analyze complexity from different points of view, it is usual that increased perspectives eventually lead to confusion and disagreements – a standoff. Rob Typewritten Text http://dx.doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v4i2.160 GETTING PRIORITIES FROM A CROWD: COMBINING JUDGMENTS FROM PEOPLE WITH DIFFERING PERSPECTIVES keywords: priorities cache: ijahp-160.pdf plain text: ijahp-160.txt item: #46 of 388 id: ijahp-161 author: Saaty, Rozann title: ISAHP MEETING IN MALAYSIA, JUNE 23-26, 2013 date: 2012-12-10 words: 218 flesch: 43 summary: http://malaysia2013.isahp.org/index.htm IMPORTANT DATES Extended abstract submission deadline: 30 December, 2012 Notification of acceptance: 31 January, 2013 Full paper submission deadline: 28 February, 2013 Early registration deadline: 15 March, 2013 Normal registration deadline 31 IJAHP News and Events: ISAHP Meeting, Malaysia, June 23-26, 2013 International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 168 Vol. 4 Issue 2 2012 ISSN 1936-6744 Rafikul Islam Chairman, ISAHP 2013 International Islamic University, Malaysia Email: rislam@iium.edu.my keywords: june cache: ijahp-161.pdf plain text: ijahp-161.txt item: #47 of 388 id: ijahp-167 author: Tsai, Cheng-An; Lo, Sheng Wen; Lin, Tzu-Ming title: AN ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK WITH SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS TO QUANTIFY MANAGEMENT CONSULTANCY SELECTION date: 2013-07-30 words: 9784 flesch: 42 summary: Those ambiguities undermine the applicability of current knowledge concerning management consultant selection. It also extends the alternatives of consultancy selection from a management consulting company to academic consultants, and 1 Corresponding author.. Tel.: +0-886-3-422-7151#66500 ; fax: +0-886-3-425-4604 E-mail address: lo.lauren0717@gmail.com mailto:chengan.tsai@msa.hinet.net mailto:lo.lauren0717@gmail.com mailto:lo.lauren0717@gmail.com IJAHP Article: keywords: analysis; company; consultancy selection; consultant; criteria; journal; management; management consultancy; problem; process; project; selection; type cache: ijahp-167.pdf plain text: ijahp-167.txt item: #48 of 388 id: ijahp-175 author: Mu, Enrique title: Editor-in-Chief Dorothy Cochrane Award News date: 2014-01-17 words: 389 flesch: 36 summary: Carlow Provost Margaret McLaughlin and Enrique Mu Dr. Mu's scholarship in the field of information technology (IT) and managerial decision-making using the Analytic Hierarchy Process is an example of the kind of scholarship that this award is meant to recognize, said Margaret McLaughlin, PhD, Provost of Carlow University. ISSN 1936-6744 Enrique Mu Wins Carlow University Award Enrique Mu, PhD, an Associate Professor in the School of Management at Carlow University, and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of the AHP, was awarded The Dorothy Weber Cochran '43 Award for Excellence in Faculty Scholarship and Research at the Honors Convocation at Carlow on Thursday, April 18, 2013. keywords: carlow cache: ijahp-175.pdf plain text: ijahp-175.txt item: #49 of 388 id: ijahp-180 author: Bijan, Yasaman; Keramati, Abbas; Salehi, Mona title: COMPARISON OF USER SATISFACTION OF E-COMMERCE WEBSITES BY THE ANALYTIC NETWORK PROCESS date: 2014-01-10 words: 12714 flesch: 56 summary: 5. Results IJAHP: Bijan, Keramati, Salehi/Comparison of User Satisfaction of Ecommerce Websites by the Analytic Network Process International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 241 Vol. 5 Issue 2 2013 ISSN 1936-6744 According to the limit supermatrix table, the importance and influence of each customer satisfaction factor is achieved with respect to their influence on e-recruitment customer satisfaction. With respect to content category, information quality (0.072) in comparison to information accuracy (0.042) has considerable influence on e-recruitment customer satisfaction. keywords: customer; ecommerce; information; network; o n; process; results; satisfaction; search; search results; site; website cache: ijahp-180.pdf plain text: ijahp-180.txt item: #50 of 388 id: ijahp-181 author: Ferretti, Valentina title: AHP/ANP is well represented in MCDM 2013 date: 2013-07-24 words: 963 flesch: 16 summary: The second AHP/ANP session, titled “AHP/ANP for Sustainability” and chaired by Professor Birsen Karpak, took place on Tuesday morning and included contributions concerning strategic information systems for a sustainable supply chain (by Steve Taraszewski & Birsen Karpak), spatial ANP for supporting scenario analysis (by Valentina Ferretti, Marta Bottero & Giulio Mondini), MCDM for resource efficient bread supply chains (by Aleksander Banasik, G.D.H. Claassen, Argyris Kanellopoulos & Jack vander Vorst), and the prioritization of third party logistics providers (by Birsen Karpak & Ozden Bayazit). Finally, the last AHP/ANP session, titled “Methodological issues (II)” and chaired by Professor Gang Kou, took place on Friday morning and included research concerning Bayesian analysis and group decision making (by Gang Kou, Changsheng Lin & Yi Peng), a structural modeling approach with interrelated components (by Jerzy Michnik) and, finally, a comparative analysis and evaluation of Multi-Criteria Decision Making methods (by Gang Kou, Daji Ergu & Thomas L. Saaty). keywords: ahp; anp; mcdm; place; professor; session cache: ijahp-181.pdf plain text: ijahp-181.txt item: #51 of 388 id: ijahp-182 author: Saaty, Rozann W. title: Editor-in-Chief Enrique Mu earns Best Paper Award at ISAHP 2013 date: 2013-07-30 words: 436 flesch: 36 summary: Microsoft Word - Mu Award IJAHP News and Events: Editor-in-Chief Enrique Mu earns Best Paper Award at ISAHP 2013 International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 175 Vol. 3 Issue 1 2011 Mu, Saaty/A Style Guide for Papers Submitted to the International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 176 methodology), literature review, and writing, to select the best paper in the second and final decision round. keywords: paper cache: ijahp-182.pdf plain text: ijahp-182.txt item: #52 of 388 id: ijahp-183 author: Saaty, Thomas L. title: Our World is Moving from Fragmentation to Integration date: 2013-07-23 words: 859 flesch: 54 summary: The AHP with its group decision making capabilities can help individuals and groups find their best overall priorities. Rousseau believed that in society man is “naturally” more evil than virtuous and that his self-interest is in constant opposition to the general interest with social life being characterized by the alienation of men from nature, from each other and from authentic selves. keywords: making; world cache: ijahp-183.pdf plain text: ijahp-183.txt item: #53 of 388 id: ijahp-184 author: Sabiruddin, Kazi; Bhattacharya, Subhajit; Das, Santanu title: SELECTION OF APPROPRIATE PROCESS PARAMETERS FOR GAS METAL ARC WELDING OF MEDIUM CARBON STEEL SPECIMENS date: 2014-01-17 words: 6750 flesch: 60 summary: Application of analytic hierarchy process (AHP) to find proper combination of process parameters of GMAW for getting good quality of welding joint for a particular set-up IJAHP Article: Sabiruddin, Bhattacharya, Das/ Selection of appropriate process parameters for gas metal arc welding of medium carbon steel specimen International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 252 Vol. 5 Issue 2 2013 ISSN 1936-6744 SELECTION OF APPROPRIATE PROCESS PARAMETERS FOR GAS METAL ARC WELDING OF MEDIUM CARBON STEEL SPECIMENS Kazi Sabiruddin Mechanical Engineering Department Kalyani Government Engineering College Kalyani- 741 235, West Bengal, India E-mail: kazi4sabir123@gmail.com Subhajit Bhattacharya Mechanical Engineering Department Kalyani Government Engineering College Kalyani- 741 235, West Bengal, India E-mail: sbhattacharya63@gmail.com Kim and Basu (1998) employed mathematical models of the GMAW process to select welding process parameters for obtaining the required weld-bead geometry. keywords: arc; gas; metal; parameters; process; selection; steel; weld; welding cache: ijahp-184.pdf plain text: ijahp-184.txt item: #54 of 388 id: ijahp-187 author: De Felice, Fabio; Karpak, Birsen; Mu, Enrique; Pecchia, Leandro; Petrillo, Antonella; Saaty, Rozann; Vargas, Luis title: Publishing AHP/ANP Papers date: 2013-07-30 words: 4802 flesch: 45 summary: For AHP papers you need real decision makers • Do very good literature search in the area you are planning to apply AHP/ANP 157 Thoughts for AHP/ANP Applied papers 23-26 June 2013, Hotel Istana, Kuala Lumpur 23-26 June 2013, Hotel Istana, Kuala Lumpur 23-26 June 2013, Hotel Istana, Kuala Lumpur IJAHP Vol.5 Issue 1 2013 - ISSN 1936-6744 • Publishing articles is like playing tennis: – you don’t learn it by reading a book or attending a course. Results: The Model 23-26 June 2013, Hotel Istana, Kuala Lumpur 23-26 June 2013, Hotel Istana, Kuala Lumpur 23-26 June 2013, Hotel Istana, Kuala Lumpur IJAHP Vol.5 Issue 1 2013 - ISSN 1936-6744 END 129 23-26 June 2013, Hotel Istana, Kuala Lumpur 23-26 June 2013, Hotel Istana, Kuala Lumpur IJAHP Vol.5 Issue 1 2013 - ISSN 1936-6744 Statistical Data on AHP Papers 12th keywords: anp; hotel istana; issn; issue; june; kuala lumpur; lumpur ijahp; papers cache: ijahp-187.pdf plain text: ijahp-187.txt item: #55 of 388 id: ijahp-188 author: Mu, Enrique title: Words from the Editor-in-Chief for the first IJAHP 2013 issue date: 2013-07-30 words: 584 flesch: 55 summary: IJAHP Editorial: Mu, E./Words from the Editor-in-Chief International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 1 Vol.5 Issue 1 2013 ISSN 1936-6744 July 2013 Dear IJAHP Readers: In our third paper, Beshah and Kitaw propose a model for allowing banks to make financing decisions from among multiple competing projects. keywords: issue; journal cache: ijahp-188.pdf plain text: ijahp-188.txt item: #56 of 388 id: ijahp-189 author: Saaty, Rozann W. title: ISAHP 2013 Meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia date: 2013-07-30 words: 855 flesch: 39 summary: A STYLE GUIDE FOR PAPERS SUBMITTED TO THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS IJAHP NEWS AND EVENTS: Saaty, Rozann / ISAHP 2013 Meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 177 Vol. 3 Issue 1 2011 ISSN 1936-6744 AHP NEWS ISAHP 2013 MEETING IN KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA A few of the participants at the ISAHP 2013 Malaysia meeting The 2013 ISAHP meeting took place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, June 19-23. IJAHP NEWS AND EVENTS: Saaty, Rozann / ISAHP 2013 Meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 178 Vol. 3 Issue 1 2011 ISSN 1936-6744 Lunch with its wide variety of tasty food Gala Dinner “Lucky Draw” event The Gala dinner, with its special performers, gave us a rollicking good time and showed off the beauty and enthusiasm of the native dances of Malaysia. keywords: 2013; malaysia; meeting; process cache: ijahp-189.pdf plain text: ijahp-189.txt item: #57 of 388 id: ijahp-191 author: Saaty, Thomas L. title: THE ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS WITHOUT THE THEORY OF OSKAR PERRON date: 2014-01-17 words: 5469 flesch: 71 summary: 𝐴1 𝐴2 ⋯ 𝐴𝑛 𝐴1 𝑤1/𝑤1 𝑤1/𝑤2 ⋯ 𝑤1/𝑤𝑛 𝐴 = 𝐴2 𝑤2/𝑤1 𝑤2/𝑤2 ⋯ 𝑤2/𝑤𝑛 ⋮ ⋮ ⋮ ⋯ ⋮ 𝐴𝑛 𝑤𝑛/𝑤1 𝑤𝑛/𝑤2 ⋯ 𝑤𝑛/𝑤𝑛 We note that we can recover the vector of weights ,...,i nw w w= by solving the system of equations defined below: Introduction We begin by honoring the name of Oskar Perron who proved a very powerful theorem in mathematics about real positive matrices. keywords: ⎢ ⎢; ⎥ ⎥ cache: ijahp-191.pdf plain text: ijahp-191.txt item: #58 of 388 id: ijahp-194 author: Yavuz, Fadim; Baycan, Tüzin title: APPLICATION OF COMBINED ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS (AHP) AND SWOT FOR INTEGRATED WATERSHED MANAGEMENT date: 2014-09-28 words: 13730 flesch: 63 summary: ALT 4−S1 ALT 4−W1 ALT 4−O1 ALT 4−T1 ALT 4−S2 ALT 4−W2 ALT 4−O2 ALT 4−T2 ALT 4−S3 ALT 4−W3 ALT 4−O3 In this context, considering the expert views, we have proposed six strategy alternatives (ALT). keywords: ahp; alt; application; baycan; combined; factors; hierarchy process; importance; international; journal; management; maxi; mini; opportunities; stakeholders; strategy; strengths; swot; threats; watershed; weaknesses cache: ijahp-194.pdf plain text: ijahp-194.txt item: #59 of 388 id: ijahp-195 author: Mac-Ginty, Ronald; Oddershede, Astrid M; Carrasco, Raúl; Vargas, Manuel title: STRATEGIC FORESIGHT USING AN ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS: ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF THE ELECTRIC GRID IN 2025. date: 2014-01-10 words: 4096 flesch: 39 summary: • New energy technologies well adapted in poor countries • 3. Methodology and Analysis The prospective analysis of the impact of energy sources to the electricity grid considered the full lifecycle of energy sources. keywords: assessment; electric; energy; foresight; grid; hierarchy; hierarchy process; impact; nuclear; process; technologies cache: ijahp-195.pdf plain text: ijahp-195.txt item: #60 of 388 id: ijahp-197 author: Mehta, Namish; Verma, Prakash; Seth, Nitin title: PRIORITIZING TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT IMPLEMENTATION CRITERION FOR ENGINEERING EDUCATION: AN ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS ANALYSIS date: 2014-10-01 words: 7889 flesch: 44 summary: Determining the relative weights of TQM implementation criterions and sub criterions for the engineering education sector An AHP-based evaluation model was developed for determining the relative weights of TQM implementation criterions. First, TQM implementation criterion and sub -criterion for the engineering education were identified. keywords: analysis; criterion; education; engineering; engineering education; hierarchy process; implementation; implementation criterion; international; journal; management; quality; sub; sub criterion; total; tqm cache: ijahp-197.pdf plain text: ijahp-197.txt item: #61 of 388 id: ijahp-198 author: Saracoglu, Burak Omer title: AN AHP APPLICATION IN THE INVESTMENT SELECTION PROBLEM OF SMALL HYDROPOWER PLANTS IN TURKEY date: 2015-08-12 words: 11547 flesch: 53 summary: The sensitivity analysis (what-if sensitivity for hierarchies) for the Goal: Small Hydropower Plants Investment Selection In Pre-Development Investment Stage by selecting the parameter type as SuperMatrix, Wrt node (with respect to node) as SMALL HYDROPOWER PLANTS INVESTMENT SELECTION IN PRE- DEVELOPMENT INVESTMENT STAGE, 1st other node as Complementary Features of the SHPP (0,07718) (top left), Electricity Generation Features of the SHPP (0,1799) (top middle), Essential Features of the SHPP (0,14142) (top right), Essential Features of the SHPP's Site/Location (0,30434) (bottom left), Social Features of the SHPP's IJAHP Article: Saracoglu, Mahallesi, Caddesi, Sokak/An AHP Application in the Investment Selection Problem of Small Hydropower Plants in Turkey International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 234 Vol. 7 Issue 2 2015 ISSN 1936-6744 http://dx.doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v7i2.198 Site/Location (0,29716) (bottom right), Start as 0,0001, End as 0,99990000000000001, Steps as 7 (open the electronic supplementary material to see these inputs and screen views: AHP Model.sdmod). Alt2 Alt3 Alt4 Alt5 0,08 Alt2 Alt3 Alt4 Alt5 Alt1 4 5 5 5 Alt1 4 7 5 5 Alt1 4,00 5,92 5,00 5,00 Alt2 5 3 3 Alt2 7 3 3 Alt2 5,92 3,00 3,00 Alt3 4 4 Alt3 4 5 Alt3 4,00 4,47 Alt4 1 Alt4 3 Alt4 1,73 EXPERT 1 EXPERT 2 EXPERTS' GROUPEXPERT 1 EXPERT 2 EXPERTS' GROUP Goal: SHPP Investment Selection In Pre-Development Investment Stage Social Features of the SHPP's Site/Location Community Attitude Conveyance Structure Geology Complementary Features of the SHPP Electricity Generation Features of the SHPP Essential Features of the SHPP Essential Features of the SHPP's Site/Location Security Conditions Terrorism Conditions Topography Transportation Protected Areas River Basin Substation Conditions Figure 8. keywords: ahp; alt2; alt3; alt4; criteria; energy; hierarchy; hydropower; international; investment; journal; process; selection; shpp; study; turkey cache: ijahp-198.pdf plain text: ijahp-198.txt item: #62 of 388 id: ijahp-199 author: Poveda, Cesar A.; Lipsett, Michael G. title: WEIGHTING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS (SDIS) FOR SURFACE MINING OPERATIONS USING THE ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS (AHP) date: 2013-12-15 words: 10818 flesch: 30 summary: Weighting the categories and criteria requires considering the application of multi-criteria decision methods (MCDM). Figueira et al. IJAHP Article: Poveda, Lipsett/Weighting Sustainable Development Indicators (SDIs) for Surface Mining Operations Using the Analytical Hierarchy Process International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 208 Vol. 5 Issue 2 2013 ISSN 1936-6744 (2005) describes four broad approaches for dealing with external uncertainties: “multi- attribute utility theory and some extensions; stochastic dominance concepts, primarily in the context of pairwise comparisons of alternatives; the use of surrogate risk measures such as additional decision criteria; and the integration of MCDA and scenario planning.” keywords: assessment; criteria; decision; development; environmental; excellence; hierarchy; hierarchy process; indicators; lipsett; mining; operations; poveda; process; projects; sdis; surface; surface mining; sustainability; weighting cache: ijahp-199.pdf plain text: ijahp-199.txt item: #63 of 388 id: ijahp-201 author: Salomon, Valerio; Zinoviev, Aleksandr; Zinovieva, Olga title: BOOK REVIEW: ALESSIO ISHIZAKA AND PHILIPPE NEMERY'S MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS date: 2013-12-15 words: 1790 flesch: 51 summary: Description Problems have been previously studied by AHP researchers, with the well-known Benefits-Opportunities-Costs-Risks (BOCR) model researched by Diederik Wijnmalen, William Wedley, Mujgan Ozdemir, Luis Vargas, and Thomas Saaty, himself, to name a few. Many people find that DEA applications are harder than AHP applications. keywords: ahp; book; ishizaka; mcda; nemery cache: ijahp-201.pdf plain text: ijahp-201.txt item: #64 of 388 id: ijahp-210 author: Serra Costa, Jose Fabiano; Borges, Aline Ramos; Machado, Thaís dos Santos title: ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS APPLIED TO INDUSTRIAL LOCATION: A BRAZILIAN PERSPECTIVE ON JEANS MANUFACTURING date: 2016-04-20 words: 4648 flesch: 46 summary: Key words: Textile industry; industrial location; multicriteria decision; AHP mailto:fabiano@ime.uerj.br mailto:alineborges_est@outlook.com mailto:thais.smachado@gmail.com IJAHP Article: Serra Costa, Borges, Machado/Analytic Hierarchy Process applied to industrial location: a Brazilian perspective on jeans manufacture International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 78 Vol. 8 Issue 1 2016 ISSN 1936-6744 http://dx.doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v8i1.210 1. Fuzzy AHP-based decision support system for selecting ERP systems in textile industry by using balanced scorecard Cebeci (2008). keywords: ahp; brazilian; costa; criteria; hierarchy; hierarchy process; jeans; journal; location; process; sub; textile cache: ijahp-210.pdf plain text: ijahp-210.txt item: #65 of 388 id: ijahp-211 author: Ferretti, Valentina title: ISAHP meeting in Washington DC, June 29 – July 2, 2014 date: 2013-12-15 words: 499 flesch: 41 summary: For conference evaluation purposes only a paper http://www.isahp.org/ IJAHP News: Ferretti/ ISAHP Meeting in Washington D.C. International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 291 Vol. 5 Issue 2 2013 Ferretti/ ISAHP Meeting in Washington D.C. International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 290 Vol. 5 Issue 2 2013 keywords: isahp; meeting cache: ijahp-211.pdf plain text: ijahp-211.txt item: #66 of 388 id: ijahp-212 author: Ferretti, Valentina title: AHP News: X OPTIMA & VI RED-M Conference Highlights date: 2013-12-15 words: 467 flesch: 36 summary: The first one, chaired by Professor Claudio Garuti, from Chile, concerned Multi-criteria Decision Making Methods for developing countries; the second one, chaired by Professor José Marìa Moreno Jiménez, from Spain, concerned cognitive approximation in Multi- criteria Decision Making with two real applications in business and decision- making. Within this truly international environment, four sessions were dedicated to Multi-criteria Decision Making methods, two of which were themed on the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). keywords: chile; red cache: ijahp-212.pdf plain text: ijahp-212.txt item: #67 of 388 id: ijahp-214 author: Mu, Enrique title: Words from the Editor in Chief date: 2014-01-21 words: 597 flesch: 41 summary: In this issue, we have started the practice of reviewing recent AHP/ANP books on the market. Our opening article by Oddershede uses a mixed method approach involving AHP and Montecarlo simulation to address electric grid impact assessment taking into account political, economic, societal and technological considerations. keywords: ahp; ijahp; issue cache: ijahp-214.pdf plain text: ijahp-214.txt item: #68 of 388 id: ijahp-218 author: Miri, Mohsen; Omidvari, Manouchehr; Sadeghi, Ahmad; Haleh, Hasan title: DEVELOPING ANP TO RANK THE BRANCHES OF AN INSURANCE COMPANY BASED ON SERVQUAL date: 2014-10-01 words: 7106 flesch: 51 summary: Also, Hakyeon et al (2012) proposed a data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach to computation of a measure of overall service quality and benchmarking when measuring service quality with SERVQUAL. The ANP has been found useful in decision making which involves numerous intangible criteria such as insurance industry service quality. keywords: alternatives; anp; branches; company; criteria; hierarchy; importance; insurance; journal; process; quality; rank; service;   cache: ijahp-218.pdf plain text: ijahp-218.txt item: #69 of 388 id: ijahp-221 author: Lombardi, Patrizia; Giordano, Silvia; Brunetta, Grazia; Caldarice, Ombretta title: APPLYING THE ANALYTICAL NETWORK PROCESS TO IDENTIFY NEW RETAIL SCENARIOS IN THE PROVINCE OF TRENTO (ITALY) date: 2014-11-24 words: 5090 flesch: 39 summary: Starting from this theoretical framework, this paper aims to illustrate a novel application of the Analytic Network Process (ANP) in the field of spatial planning with the purpose of investigating the interrelations between retail components and spatial development retail scenarios within the Province of Trento (Italy). This paper reports a novel application of the Analytic Network Process (ANP) in the field of spatial planning with the aim of investigating the interrelations between retail components and spatial development retail scenarios. keywords: evaluation; network; network process; new; planning; process; province; retail; scenarios; territorial; tie cache: ijahp-221.pdf plain text: ijahp-221.txt item: #70 of 388 id: ijahp-223 author: Ocampo, Lanndon; Clark, Eppie title: AN ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS (AHP) APPROACH IN THE SELECTION OF SUSTAINABLE MANUFACTURING INITIATIVES: A CASE IN A SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING FIRM IN THE PHILIPPINES date: 2015-02-11 words: 6349 flesch: 42 summary: 5. Conclusion Evaluating sustainable manufacturing initiatives of manufacturing firms is an essential step in assisting decision-makers in identification of priority initiatives that have a higher degree of impact on sustainability. Ocampo, Clark/An Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) Approach in the Selection of Sustainable Manufacturing Initiatives: A Case in a Semiconductor Manufacturing Firm in the Philippines International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 32 Vol. 7 Issue 1 2015 ISSN 1936-6744 http://dx.doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v7i1.223 AN ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS (AHP) APPROACH IN THE SELECTION OF SUSTAINABLE MANUFACTURING INITIATIVES: keywords: ahp; case; clark; firm; hierarchy; hierarchy process; initiatives; journal; manufacturing; ocampo; process; semiconductor; sustainability cache: ijahp-223.pdf plain text: ijahp-223.txt item: #71 of 388 id: ijahp-226 author: El Hefnawy, Ali; Mohammed, Ahmed Soliman title: REVIEW OF DIFFERENT METHODS FOR DERIVING WEIGHTS IN THE ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS date: 2014-10-01 words: 14051 flesch: 53 summary: The AHP approach that was proposed by Saaty to derive priority weights by using the eigenvector method (EVM) has its drawbacks, and since its publication various methods have been developed as alternatives. This paper presents an extensive review of various methods for deriving priority weights in AHP, including group decision making, and focuses on comparison of each method with the EVM. keywords: ahp; comparison; decision; group; hierarchy process; journal; matrix; method; model; priority; priority weights; research; review; saaty; w w; weights cache: ijahp-226.pdf plain text: ijahp-226.txt item: #72 of 388 id: ijahp-235 author: Ferretti, Valentina; Saaty, Thomas title: Questions and Answers: Valentina Ferretti interviews Tom Saaty date: 2015-04-21 words: 5845 flesch: 51 summary: In particular, the interview will work through the conceptual lens of decision processes taking place in the field of urban and territorial transformations. More recently it went through an independent evolution, and it has now become a point of reference for many disciplines which are concerned with the analysis of decision processes. keywords: decision; ferretti; hierarchy; making; process; saaty; structure; tom; valentina; valentina ferretti cache: ijahp-235.pdf plain text: ijahp-235.txt item: #73 of 388 id: ijahp-236 author: Guerrero, Dolores; Gómez-Limón, José A. title: DECOMPOSING VALUE CREATION WHEN ASSESSING INVESTMENTS: A MULTICRITERIA APPROACH BASED ON THE ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS date: 2014-11-24 words: 8961 flesch: 42 summary: This will be done by decomposing the total value that is created by the new assets into two components: financial value and nonfinancial capital value, the latter stemming from the intellectual capital of the firm. Capital budgeting decisions have a major effect on the total or market value of the firm (Dayananda et al., 2002), affecting its two components, financial value and nonfinancial capital value. keywords: approach; capital; capital value; creation; decision; firm; hierarchy; hierarchy process; international; investment; journal; management; multicriteria; process; value; value creation cache: ijahp-236.pdf plain text: ijahp-236.txt item: #74 of 388 id: ijahp-240 author: Madera, Alexander title: INTERVAL UNCERTAINTY OF ESTIMATES AND JUDGMENTS OF SUBJECT IN DECISION MAKING IN MULTI-CRITERIA PROBLEMS date: 2015-08-12 words: 5193 flesch: 37 summary: IJAHP Article: Madera/Interval Uncertainty of Estimates and Judgments of Subject in Decision Making in Multi-Criteria Problems International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 343 Vol. 7 Issue 2 2015 ISSN 1936-6744 http://dx.doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v7i2.240 In the interval stochastic AHP, the priorities of both the criteria and alternatives for the criteria are interval stochastic values. Therefore, the GPs of alternatives will also be interval stochastic Gxi (ω), which for each alternative xi (i = 1, 2,…,n) will be determined by the following formula: Gxi (ω) = 1f xi w (ω)∙wf 1(ω) + 2f xi w (ω)∙wf 2(ω) +  + mf xi w (ω)∙ wf m(ω), (9) where 1f xi w (ω), 2f xi w (ω), … , mf xi w (ω) – interval stochastic values of the priorities of the alternative xi relative to the criteria f1, f2, … , fm; wf 1(ω); wf 2(ω), … , wf m(ω) – interval stochastic values of the criteria priorities. keywords: alternatives; criteria; estimates; interval; stochastic cache: ijahp-240.pdf plain text: ijahp-240.txt item: #75 of 388 id: ijahp-241 author: Mu, Enrique title: AN MCDM REFLECTION ON THE FIFA 2014 WORLD CUP date: 2014-10-01 words: 1476 flesch: 61 summary: Scenario 7: C6 – Fouls, C7 – Yellow and C8 – Red Cards are the most important criteria CONCLUSION This analysis suggests that in any circumstance; that is, any combination of criteria, in which attack performance criteria have greater importance than defense and fair-play performance criteria, James Rodriguez should have been the winner of the “Balon de Oro” award! Mu/An MCDM Reflection on the FIFA 2014 World Cup Golden Ball Award International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process ISSN 1936-6744 130 Vol. 6 Issue 2 2014 http://dx.doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v6i1.241 include intangible criteria such as team leadership, public charisma and so forth; we strongly suggest the use of an AHP evaluation approach that can make the award decision as transparent as possible. keywords: award; ball; criteria; golden cache: ijahp-241.pdf plain text: ijahp-241.txt item: #76 of 388 id: ijahp-243 author: Lipovetsky, Stan title: AHP PRIORITIES AND MARKOV-CHAPMAN-KOLMOGOROV STEADY-STATES PROBABILITIES date: 2015-08-12 words: 5382 flesch: 57 summary: However, taking product p of all priorities wi in denominators of theoretical matrix (1) p = w1 w2 … wn (27) and multiplying each element of theoretical Saaty matrix by this term results in integer numbers in place of the pairwise ratios (1): wij = (wi / wj ) p (28) These integer numbers (12) make sense of the proportions which describe how each item is preferred or failed in pairwise comparison with other items in consideration. AHP theoretical matrix (1) corresponds to an n by n contingency table of two vectors – priority (in rows) and anti-priority (in columns) (see Table 2). keywords: ahp; lipovetsky; markov; matrix; priorities; priority; probabilities; states; table cache: ijahp-243.pdf plain text: ijahp-243.txt item: #77 of 388 id: ijahp-244 author: Hun-Feng, Huang; Hen-Chin, Chen; Sean, Liu title: MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES FOR TAIWAN SHIMEN RESERVOIR CATCHMENT AREA: PERSPECTIVES OF COLLABORATIVE PLANNING date: 2015-02-24 words: 6234 flesch: 39 summary: In this research, a case study of Shimen Reservoir catchment area management was constructed. In this research, a case study of Shimen Reservoir catchment area management is constructed. keywords: anp; area; catchment; catchment area; factors; hierarchy; management; planning; policy; process; reservoir; reservoir catchment; shimen; strategies; taiwan; water cache: ijahp-244.pdf plain text: ijahp-244.txt item: #78 of 388 id: ijahp-25 author: Verma, Rakesh; Koul, Saroj title: DYNAMIC VENDOR SELECTION: A FUZZY AHP APPROACH date: 2012-12-10 words: 5507 flesch: 54 summary: (7): 1 2 1 3 1 4 ( ) 1, ( ) 1, ( ) 1 Q Q Q Q Q Q V Supplier Supplier V Supplier Supplier V Supplier Supplier ≥ = ≥ = ≥ = 2 1 2 3 2 4 ( ) 0.466, ( ) 0.867, ( ) 0.753 Q Q Q Q Q Q V Supplier Supplier V Supplier Supplier V Supplier Supplier ≥ = ≥ = ≥ = 3 1 3 2 3 4 ( ) 0.545, ( ) 1, ( ) 0.867 Q Q Q Q Q Q V Supplier Supplier V Supplier Supplier V Supplier Supplier ≥ = ≥ = ≥ = 4 1 4 2 4 3 ( ) 0.697, ( ) 1, ( ) 1 Q Q Q Q Q Q V Supplier Supplier V Supplier Supplier V Supplier Supplier ≥ = ≥ = ≥ = Then priority weights are calculated by using Eq. Supplier selection and evaluation are very important to the success of a manufacturing firm because the cost and quality of goods and services sold are directly related to the cost and quality of goods and services purchased. keywords: ahp; fuzzy; hierarchy; international; journal; process; selection; supplier; vendor cache: ijahp-25.pdf plain text: ijahp-25.txt item: #79 of 388 id: ijahp-250 author: Dhital, Ram Prasad; Pyakurel, Parakram; Bajracharya, Tri Ratna; Shrestha, Rajendra title: FRAMEWORK FOR SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT OF RENEWABLE ENERGY PROJECTS IN NEPAL date: 2014-10-01 words: 5628 flesch: 36 summary: Dhital, Pyakurel, Bajracharya, Shrestha/ Framework for Sustainability of Renewable Energy Projects in Nepal International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process ISSN 1936-6744 76 Vol. 6 Issue 1 2014 http://dx.doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v6i1.250 FRAMEWORK FOR SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT OF RENEWABLE ENERGY PROJECTS IN NEPAL Ram Prasad Dhital Institute of Engineering Tribhuvan University, Nepal E-mail: rpdhital@yahoo.com Parakram Pyakurel Alternative Energy Promotion Centre, Nepal Email: parakram_pyakurel@yahoo.com Tri Ratna Bajracharya Center for Energy Studies, Institute of Engineering Tribhuvan University, Nepal E-mail: triratna@ioe.edu.np Rajendra Shrestha Mechanical Engineering Department, Institute of Engineering Tribhuvan University, Nepal E-mail: rsfluid@hotmail.com ABSTRACT Long term sustainability of renewable energy projects in Nepal has been a challenging issue because a certain amount of investment subsidy from the government is used to build the projects. The sustainability of renewable energy projects largely depends on how much revenue it can generate from its users. keywords: ahp; criteria; energy; factors; framework; hierarchy; nepal; process; projects; sustainability cache: ijahp-250.pdf plain text: ijahp-250.txt item: #80 of 388 id: ijahp-251 author: Baric, Danijela; Starcevic, Martin title: IMPLEMENTATION OF ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS IN SOLVING TRANSPORT PROBLEMS date: 2015-08-12 words: 5730 flesch: 30 summary: http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/bjrbe.2012.20 IJAHP Article: Barić, Starčević/Implementation of Analytic Hierarchy Process in Solving Transport Problems International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 310 Vol. 7 Issue 2 2015 ISSN 1936-6744 http://dx.doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v7i2.251 Cimler, R. Analytic Hierarchy Process and agent-based simulation for traffic modeling, Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on the Analytic Hierarchy Process, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 23 rd – 26 th June 2013. IJAHP Article: Barić, Starčević/Implementation of Analytic Hierarchy Process in Solving Transport Problems International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 295 Vol. 7 Issue 2 2015 ISSN 1936-6744 http://dx.doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v7i2.251 IMPLEMENTATION OF ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS IN SOLVING TRANSPORT PROBLEMS Danijela Barić Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences University of Zagreb, Croatia dbaric@fpz.hr Martin Starčević Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences University of Zagreb, Croatia martin.starcevic@fpz.hr ABSTRACT keywords: ahp; criteria; hierarchy process; implementation; issue; journal; method; papers; problems; traffic; transport; transport problems; transportation; vol cache: ijahp-251.pdf plain text: ijahp-251.txt item: #81 of 388 id: ijahp-253 author: Singh, Rana Pratap; Nachtnebel, Hans Peter title: PRIORITIZING HYDROPOWER DEVELOPMENT USING ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS (AHP) – A CASE STUDY OF NEPAL date: 2015-08-12 words: 9681 flesch: 43 summary: Hence, the government opts for hydropower project development based on particular objectives while the country needs prioritizing the scale of hydropower development in order to maximize the national interest. Both for environmental and uncertainties, the preference order was from micro towards large scale hydropower development in Nepal. keywords: ahp; alternatives; case; criteria; decision; development; energy; goals; hierarchy; hierarchy process; hydropower; hydropower development; international; journal; nepal; process; scale; schemes; study cache: ijahp-253.pdf plain text: ijahp-253.txt item: #82 of 388 id: ijahp-256 author: Shih, Hsu-Shih; Cheng, Chi-Bin; Chen, Chiau-Ching; Lin, Yi-Chun title: ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ON THE VENDOR SELECTION PROBLEM IN ELECTRONICS FIRMS:• A SYSTEMATIC ANALYTIC NETWORK PROCESS WITH BOCR date: 2014-11-24 words: 9008 flesch: 42 summary: The results show that the criteria of greatest concern are consistency delivery, flexibility, and cost, whereas environmental criteria are valued less. These two types of environmental criteria  mandatory and voluntary  play a central part in the stages of qualification and final choice of the vendor selection process. keywords: analysis; bocr; clusters; criteria; electronics; green; hierarchy; impact; journal; management; network; network process; problem; process; selection; supplier; vendor cache: ijahp-256.pdf plain text: ijahp-256.txt item: #83 of 388 id: ijahp-257 author: Mu, Enrique title: Words from the Editor in Chief date: 2014-10-01 words: 655 flesch: 51 summary: This year has been very busy for the AHP community due to the International Symposium of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (ISAHP 2014) that took place from June 29 – July 2 in Washington, D.C. IJAHP sponsored and participated in the organization of the meeting and several selected papers from the symposium will be published in our upcoming issues. Mu/Words from the Editor in Chief International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process ISSN 1936-6744 1 Vol. 6 Issue 1 2014 http://dx.doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v6i1.257 September 30, 2014 Dear IJAHP Reader: keywords: ijahp; issue cache: ijahp-257.pdf plain text: ijahp-257.txt item: #84 of 388 id: ijahp-259 author: Tsyganok, Vitaliy V; Kadenko, Sergii V; Andriichuk, Oleh V title: USAGE OF SCALES WITH DIFFERENT NUMBER OF GRADES FOR PAIR COMPARISONS IN DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS date: 2016-04-20 words: 7886 flesch: 44 summary: One of the options for a simplified calculation of such informative content indicator, based on the assumption that selection of any scale grade by an expert is equally probable (probability is evenly distributed), is calculation of the quantity of information according to Hartley’s formula (Hartley, 1928): NI 2log , where N is the number of expert estimation scale grades. Numeric values, corresponding to linguistic phrases for power scale, are calculated based on the expression: 1 1 9    y x a , where x is an integer value from Table 1, corresponding to the same verbal expression, while y is the number of scale grades. keywords: comparisons; decision; dominance; expert; grades; issue; journal; number; pair; process; scale cache: ijahp-259.pdf plain text: ijahp-259.txt item: #85 of 388 id: ijahp-261 author: Dixon-Ogbechi, Bolajoko Nkemdinim; Jagun, Sikuade Oladimeji; Ighomereho, Salome Ogheneochuko; Rahim, Ganiyu Ajao; Haran, Elizabeth Marie title: DETERMINATION OF PROMOTIONAL STRATEGY FOR ORGANIZATIONS IN THE NIGERIAN INSURANCE INDUSTRY USING THE AHP MODEL date: 2015-02-11 words: 5963 flesch: 39 summary: ABSTRACT Several studies have revealed that insurance companies are experiencing low patronage, and these studies have recommended the use of promotional strategies to create awareness and to boost customer patronage. Keywords: Nigerian insurance companies, promotional strategy, Analytic Hierarchy Process model (AHP), Lagos metropolis. keywords: ahp; companies; industry; insurance; insurance industry; kotler; marketing; model; organizations; promotion; strategy; tools cache: ijahp-261.pdf plain text: ijahp-261.txt item: #86 of 388 id: ijahp-263 author: Sabiá, Rodolfo J.; Salomon, Valerio A. P.; Sobreira Júnior, Francisco A. V.; Marins, Fernando A. S.; Lima, Anna F. O. title: DETERMINATION OF THE MOST APPROPRIATE POLICY FOR RIVER BASIN MANAGEMENT date: 2015-08-12 words: 3237 flesch: 44 summary: Keywords: AHP; environmental policies; river basin management. According to Saaty (2008), an MCDA method such as AHP balances the interactions between decision criteria and synthesizes information into a vector of priorities for the IJHAP Article: Sabia, Salomon, Sobreira Junior, Marins, Lima/ Determination of the Most Appropriate Policy for River Basin Management International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 203 Vol. 7 Issue 2 2015 keywords: ahp; basin; criteria; hierarchy; management; policy; process; river cache: ijahp-263.pdf plain text: ijahp-263.txt item: #87 of 388 id: ijahp-264 author: Aktar Demirtas, Ezgi; Buruk, Yeliz; Sa??r, Müjgan title: A MULTI-CRITERIA JOB EVALUATION METHOD FOR A STATE BANK date: 2015-08-12 words: 4736 flesch: 50 summary: A fair wage policy can be achieved by job evaluation, which is a technique used to determine the relative importance of all jobs in an organization. Actually, job evaluation is concerned with the assessment of a value system that encapsulates the importance of the parameters of and reflects the global responsibility and duties of a job. keywords: criteria; evaluation; job; jobs; method; process; state; sub cache: ijahp-264.pdf plain text: ijahp-264.txt item: #88 of 388 id: ijahp-266 author: Rajguru, Anand Jalindar; Shah, Narendra G.; Ramkrishnan, Ganesh title: CHANGE DYNAMICS IN MAHARASHTRA STATE SMALL FARMING SYSTEMS - FIELD SURVEY AND ANALYSIS THROUGH THE ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS date: 2014-11-24 words: 8188 flesch: 43 summary: Partial organic farming practices involve minimal external chemical input along with organic input from the farm itself, while chemical farming relies completely on specified external chemical input. Partial organic farming practices are increasingly turning out to be a socially, technically, environmentally as well as economically viable farming practice in several parts of India. keywords: ahp; analysis; attributes; change; chemical; dynamics; farmers; farming; hierarchy process; journal; maharashtra; organic; perspective; shah; state; survey; water cache: ijahp-266.pdf plain text: ijahp-266.txt item: #89 of 388 id: ijahp-267 author: Minzoni, Angela; Mounoud, Ele?onore; Zahraei, Majid Fathi title: USING ANP TO DESIGN A LIVING SYSTEM LIKE BALANCED OPERATING MODEL FOR INTANGIBLE SERVICES date: 2015-08-12 words: 10858 flesch: 41 summary: Organizations delivering intangible services have not yet developed any specific designs regarding operating models. Operating models in this study are understood under a broad perspective focusing not only on the way processes are engineered and operated but also including strategy, governance and resources issues. keywords: anp; criteria; data; decision; design; hierarchy; international; issue; journal; living; minzoni; model; mounoud; new; operating; operating model; process; research; services; system cache: ijahp-267.pdf plain text: ijahp-267.txt item: #90 of 388 id: ijahp-272 author: Tramarico, Claudemir L.; Marins, Fernando A. S.; Urbina, Ligia M. S.; Salomon, Valerio A. P. title: BENEFITS ASSESSMENT OF TRAINING ON SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT date: 2015-08-12 words: 6212 flesch: 46 summary: √ √ √ 3 Chan, F.T.S. and Chan, H. K. 2010 √ √ 4 Drake, P.R. and Lee, D.M. 2009 √ √ 5 Erdem, A.S. and Goecen, E. 2012 √ √ √ 6 Ertay, T. et al. 2011 √ √ √ √ 7 Ha, S.H. and Krishnan, R. 2008 √ √ √ √ 8 Ho, W. and Emrouznejad, A. 2009 √ √ √ 9 Ho, W. et al. 2011 √ √ 10 Hsu, C.W. and Hu, A.H. 2008 √ √ √ 11 Labib, A.W 2011 √ √ 12 Levary, R.R. 2008 √ √ 13 Lin, R.H. and Ho, P.Y. 2014 √ √ 14 Lu, L.Y.Y et al. 2007 √ √ √ 15 Naesens, K. et al. 2009 √ √ 16 Opasanon, S. and Lertsanti, P. 2013 √ √ 17 Palma, M. and Jaime, A. 2014 √ √ 18 Rabelo, L. et al. 2007 √ √ √ 19 Saen, R.F. 2007 √ √ √ 20 Sevkli, M. et al. 2007 √ √ √ 21 Sharma, M.J. et al. 2008 keywords: assessment; benefits; chain; company; competencies; hierarchy; journal; management; process; scm; supply; supply chain; training; √ √ cache: ijahp-272.pdf plain text: ijahp-272.txt item: #91 of 388 id: ijahp-273 author: Islam, Rafikul; Anis, Azilah; Abdullah, Anisah title: CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS OF THE CHALLENGES IN PROVIDING QUALITY EDUCATION: A STUDY ON MALAYSIAN PRIVATE HIGHER LEARNING INSTITUTIONS date: 2015-02-24 words: 9231 flesch: 47 summary: Malaysian private higher education: A need to study the different interpretations of quality. Enhancing quality of faculty in private higher education institutions in Malaysia. keywords: challenges; csfs; education; factors; hlis; institutions; international; journal; malaysian; private; quality; quality education; research; study; success cache: ijahp-273.pdf plain text: ijahp-273.txt item: #92 of 388 id: ijahp-276 author: Aragonés-Beltrán, Pablo; García-Melón, Mónica; Estruch-Guitart, Vicent title: ANALYSIS OF THE PARTICIPATION OF STAKEHOLDERS IN ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT BASED ON ANP: APPLICATION TO A SPANISH NATURAL PARK date: 2015-02-25 words: 4792 flesch: 56 summary: Several approaches have been proposed to investigate the relationships among stakeholders, like the basic stakeholder analysis technique, power versus interest grids, stakeholder influence diagrams, the participation planning matrix, interrelationship diagrams (Bryson, 2004), or actor-linkage matrices (Biggs & Matsaert, 1999). Keywords: Analytic Network Process; stakeholder analysis, participatory decision making. keywords: analysis; environmental; influence; information; management; monthly; stakeholders; year cache: ijahp-276.pdf plain text: ijahp-276.txt item: #93 of 388 id: ijahp-277 author: Entani, Tomoe title: GROUP INTERVAL WEIGHTS BASED ON CONJUNCTION APPROXIMATION OF INDIVIDUAL INTERVAL WEIGHTS date: 2015-12-21 words: 5212 flesch: 56 summary: The group decision is also denoted as interval weights 𝑊𝑖 = Group decision from individual decisions 3.1 Relation between group and individual decisions In the case of a group of 𝑚 decision makers, there are 𝑚 sets of individual interval weights. keywords: decision; group; individual; interval; weights; 𝑤𝑘𝑖 cache: ijahp-277.pdf plain text: ijahp-277.txt item: #94 of 388 id: ijahp-283 author: AKSOZ, E. Ozan; Özel, Ça??l Hale; Ako?lan Kozak, Meryem title: AN ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS (AHP) MODEL FOR UNDERSTANDING CONVENTION PLANNER'S PRIOR FACTORS OF CONVENTION HOTEL SELECTION date: 2015-08-12 words: 7887 flesch: 39 summary: Keywords: Convention planners; travel agencies; convention hotel selection criteria; Analytic Hierarchy Process; Ankara-Turkey. However, this information may be of importance in terms of shedding light on convention hotel selection criteria that convention planners take into account while planning international conventions. keywords: convention; convention hotel; convention planners; criteria; factors; hierarchy; hotel; hotel selection; process; region; selection; selection criteria; site; study cache: ijahp-283.pdf plain text: ijahp-283.txt item: #95 of 388 id: ijahp-284 author: Jantscher, Martin; Schwarz, Christopher; Zinser, Erwin title: DECISION SUPPORT IN IT SERVICE MANAGEMENT: APPLYING AHP METHODOLOGY TO THE ITIL INCIDENT MANAGEMENT PROCESS date: 2015-02-24 words: 6067 flesch: 41 summary: Literature review It is a well-known fact in the field of IT service management (ITSM) that incidents have a negative impact on the business performance of IT service providers. It is a common practice for IT service providers to issue contracts to customers that specify the IT service offered as well as numerous service level targets that the IT service provider must meet. keywords: ahp; criteria; decision; incident; management; process; service; service management cache: ijahp-284.pdf plain text: ijahp-284.txt item: #96 of 388 id: ijahp-291 author: Deliktas, Derya; Torkul, Orhan; Ustun, Ozden; Kiris, Safak title: AN INTEGRATED APPROACH FOR SINGLE MACHINE SCHEDULING WITH SEQUENCE-DEPENDENT SETUP TIMES date: 2015-02-24 words: 7058 flesch: 56 summary: Research of multi-objective optimization study for job shop scheduling problem based on grey ant colony algorithm. Keywords: AHP; single machine scheduling problem; sequence-dependent setup times; Multi-choice goal programming; 0-1 mixed integer non-linear programming model IJAHP Article: keywords: choice; goal; job; journal; machine; machine scheduling; problem; programming; scheduling; sequence; setup; setup times; times cache: ijahp-291.pdf plain text: ijahp-291.txt item: #97 of 388 id: ijahp-292 author: Macura, Dragana; Selmic, Milica title: RAILWAY PROJECTS EVALUATION WITH DYNAMIC PRIORITIES – SERBIA CASE STUDY date: 2015-02-11 words: 6134 flesch: 51 summary: Suggested relevant external projects in the model are:  X – Vidin-Calafat Bridge - this project can take flow of goods and passengers from Corridor 10, and make better service quality on Corridor 4.  Y – Rehabilitation of Corridor 4 – with this project, the competitive corridor, Corridor 4, becomes stronger in comparison to Corridor 10, with the aim of keeping the same freight transport volume on Corridor 10, the service quality should be improved. A8 0.142 0.437 0.030 0.173 0.287 0.265 Sum 1 1 1 1 1 1 IJAHP Article: Macura, Selmic/Railway Project Evaluation with Dynamic Priorities- Serbia Case Study International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 24 Vol. 7 Issue 1 2015 ISSN 1936-6744 http://dx.doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v7i1.292 The authors assumed that relative priorities of relevant external projects were time- dependent values. keywords: case; criteria; decision; dynamic; evaluation; journal; macura; model; process; project; railway; time; transport cache: ijahp-292.pdf plain text: ijahp-292.txt item: #98 of 388 id: ijahp-293 author: Singh, Harwinder; Singh, Amandeep; Bilga, Paramjit Singh; Singh, Lakhwinder Pal title: EVALUATION AND PRIORITIZATION OF FACTORS AFFECTING ENERGY EXPENDITURE OF WORKERS ENGAGED IN MANUAL MATERIAL HANDLING USING ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS date: 2015-12-21 words: 4339 flesch: 40 summary: IJAHP Article: Singh H., Singh L. P., Singh A., Bilga P. S./Evaluation and prioritization of factors affecting energy expenditure of workers engaged in manual material handling using Analytical Hierarchy Process International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 440 Vol. 7 Issue 3 2015 ISSN 1936-6744 http://dx.doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v7i3.293 EVALUATION AND PRIORITIZATION OF FACTORS AFFECTING ENERGY EXPENDITURE OF WORKERS ENGAGED IN MANUAL MATERIAL HANDLING USING ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS Harwinder Singh Department of Mechanical Engineering Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College Ludhiana, Punjab-141006, India E-mail: harwin75@rediffmail.com Lakhwinder Pal Singh Department of Industrial & Production Engineering Dr B. R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar, Punjab-144011, India E-mail: singhl@nitj.ac.in Amandeep Singh Department of Industrial & Production Engineering Dr B. R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar, Punjab-144011, India E-mail: ip.nitj@gmail.com Paramjit Singh Bilga Department of Mechanical Engineering Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College Ludhiana, Punjab-141006, India E-mail: psbilga@gndec.ac.in ABSTRACT The present study aimed to evaluate energy expenditure of workers engaged in a manual material handling task .The various factors/sub factors influencing energy expenditure with physical impact on the human body were prioritized in terms of weight values by using the Analytical Hierarchy Process. keywords: energy; energy expenditure; expenditure; factors; hierarchy; hierarchy process; process; singh; workers cache: ijahp-293.pdf plain text: ijahp-293.txt item: #99 of 388 id: ijahp-297 author: Kashi, Katerina title: AHP IN PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT: CAN THE KEY COMPETENCIES CHANGE WITH COMPANY’S STRATEGY? date: 2016-04-20 words: 5139 flesch: 48 summary: ISSN 1936-6744 http://dx.doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v8i1.297 Table 3 Pair-wise comparison table - example for competencies groups for year 2013 Objective Managerial Interpersonal Technical Personal Managerial A B B C Interpersonal 1/B A 1/C B Technical A C Personal A 5. The resulting priorities of competency groups for the company for 2013 and 2014 are shown in Table 6. keywords: ahp; change; company; competencies; competency; hierarchy; management; process; strategy; weights cache: ijahp-297.pdf plain text: ijahp-297.txt item: #100 of 388 id: ijahp-298 author: Ali, Abid title: AN MCDM APPROACH TOWARDS M-PAYMENT BUSINESS MODELS EVALUATION date: 2015-08-12 words: 8077 flesch: 45 summary: 5.1 Sample selection The AHP is a decision making method where users can have less understanding about m- payment business models which may lead to inconsistency of data. Pousttchi, Schiessler & Wiedemann (2007) proposed a framework for mobile payment business models. keywords: business; business models; evaluation; factors; hierarchy; journal; mcdm; mobile; models; payment; payment business; process; service; value cache: ijahp-298.pdf plain text: ijahp-298.txt item: #101 of 388 id: ijahp-299 author: Oyatoye, Emmanuel Olateju; Adebiyi, Sulaimon Olanrewaju; Amole, Bilqis Bolanle title: EVALUATING SUBSCRIBERS PREFERENCE FOR SERVICE ATTRIBUTES OF MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION IN NIGERIA USING ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS (AHP) date: 2015-08-12 words: 6225 flesch: 38 summary: The continuous marketing efforts of network providers in Nigeria as well as the perceived ineffectiveness of the regulatory authority, National Communication Commission(NCC), in the telecommunication sector has made the evaluation of subscriber preferences for service attributes necessary. The criteria with respect to the goal of evaluating subscribers preference for mobile network attributes (which ultimately determines which network subscribers decide to patronize) revealed that an average customer preferred a good/cheap tariff system before considering the quality of calls. keywords: ahp; attributes; criteria; hierarchy; hierarchy process; mobile; network; preference; process; subscribers cache: ijahp-299.pdf plain text: ijahp-299.txt item: #102 of 388 id: ijahp-303 author: Pegetti, Ana Lucia; de Souza Jr, Jesse d´Assunção Rebello title: COGNITIVE MAPS AND AHP FOR SUPPLIER SELECTION IN A PRIVATE HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTION date: 2016-09-19 words: 11757 flesch: 39 summary: The next step consisted in evaluating which existing approaches for solving supplier selection problems are available and these were mainly found in the work of Wu and Barnes (2012). It is characterized as a highly complex issue, especially when it comes to an unstructured problem, where scenarios and decision criteria are not fixed or known a priori, presenting a high risk to the organization. keywords: ahp; criteria; decision; decisor; education; education institution; hierarchy process; institution; issn; issue; journal; maps; order; pegetti; problem; process; selection process; souza; supplier selection cache: ijahp-303.pdf plain text: ijahp-303.txt item: #103 of 388 id: ijahp-304 author: Roux, Izak Johannes; Makrigeorgis, Dr. Christos title: APPLYING THE ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS TO OIL SANDS ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE RISK MANAGEMENT date: 2016-04-20 words: 6989 flesch: 41 summary: Such an understanding helps ensure that Alberta oil sands projects will be compliant with the provincial government regulations. Recent oil price decreases have exerted pressures on oil sands projects, but the roughly $155 billion capital investments in the last 10 years or so in these projects makes it just too difficult to switch them off. keywords: ahp; alberta; application; compliance; criteria; hierarchy; hierarchy process; journal; management; oil; oil sands; process; risk; risk management; sands cache: ijahp-304.pdf plain text: ijahp-304.txt item: #104 of 388 id: ijahp-307 author: Mu, Enrique title: SELECTING A JOURNAL FOR YOUR AHP/ANP PUBLICATION: A GUIDE FOR BEGINNERS date: 2014-11-24 words: 1850 flesch: 56 summary: For example, if a journal publishes a large number of review articles, it will be certain to have 1 In many institutions, a senior basket of journals is defined for their senior faculty should they want to keep moving up in the ranks beyond associate professor. For these reasons, universities (at least in the U.S.) rarely use impact factor as a criterion to judge a faculty publication, although journals promote it to attract authors. keywords: factor; journal; paper cache: ijahp-307.pdf plain text: ijahp-307.txt item: #105 of 388 id: ijahp-308 author: Mu, Enrique title: Words from the Editor-in-Chief date: 2014-11-24 words: 444 flesch: 54 summary: Next, Shih et al use a BOCR ANP modeling approach to analyze the problem of environmental impact on the selection of vendors for electronic firms. More interestingly, Shih et al demonstrate the use of this model in a case study in Taiwan. keywords: ijahp; issue cache: ijahp-308.pdf plain text: ijahp-308.txt item: #106 of 388 id: ijahp-309 author: Ferretti, Valentina title: International Symposium on the Analytic Hierarchy Process 2014, some Highlights date: 2014-11-24 words: 834 flesch: 36 summary: Ferretti/Highlights: International Symposium on the Analytic Hierarchy Process 2014 International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 252 Vol. 6 Issue 2 2014 ISSN 1936-6744 http://dx.doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v6i2.309 Highlights: International Symposium on the Analytic Hierarchy Process 2014 Ferretti/Highlights: International Symposium on the Analytic Hierarchy Process 2014 International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 253 Vol. 6 Issue 2 2014 ISSN 1936-6744 http://dx.doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v6i2.309 Indonesia Poland US Nigeria Iran Romania Algeria Turkey Pakistan Canada Ukraine UK Spain Israel Saudi Arabia Nepal Brazil Croatia Colombia India Italy Russia Mexico Hungary Chile Taiwan Czech Republic Australia China Poland Cuba Venezuela Japan Korea Germany Austria Egypt Palestine France Greece Figure 1. Countries who participated in the ISAHP 2014 This symposium was an exceptional opportunity to bring together researchers, teachers, students and users of AHP/ANP to share their research and experiences in decision making, by fostering a collage of interactions, catching up, discovery, debate, and enjoyment. keywords: hierarchy; hierarchy process; process; symposium cache: ijahp-309.pdf plain text: ijahp-309.txt item: #107 of 388 id: ijahp-31 author: Sato, Yuji title: HOW TO MEASURE HUMAN PERCEPTION IN SURVEY QUESTIONNAIRES date: 2009-12-23 words: 8758 flesch: 53 summary: In a question asking your preference, SMC method requires you to choose one alternative from among the four fruits, and MMC, if it allows you to give your second choice, asks you to choose up to two alternatives from among the four fruits. Sato/How to Measure Human Perception in Survey Questionnaires International Journal of the 64 Vol. 1 Issue 2 2009 ISSN 936-6744 Analytic Hierarchy Process HOW TO MEASURE HUMAN PERCEPTION IN SURVEY QUESTIONNAIRES Yuji Sato Graduate School of Policy Science, Mie Chukyo University Matsusaka, Japan E-mail: ysatoh@mie-chukyo-u.ac.jp ABSTRACT The objective of this study was to examine the effectiveness of multiple-choice method, ranking method, rating method and the application of Analytic Hierarchy Process in measuring human perception. keywords: ahp; alternatives; issue; method; mmc; ranking; respondents; survey; weight cache: ijahp-31.pdf plain text: ijahp-31.txt item: #108 of 388 id: ijahp-313 author: von Solms, Sibs title: COMPARABILITY, DECISION THEORY AND THE AHP date: 2015-12-21 words: 13512 flesch: 45 summary: The consensus amongst pluralist philosophers is that pluralism entails value incomparability (Kekes, 1992; Mason, 2011). Another conception of value incommensurability denies both strong and weak commensurability claiming that in some conflicts of values – in cases where the gain in one factor cannot compensate for the loss in another factor - there is no true ranking of values. keywords: ahp; chang; choice; criteria; decision; hierarchy; incommensurability; incomparability; international; issue; journal; making; problem; process; saaty; solms; theory; value; von cache: ijahp-313.pdf plain text: ijahp-313.txt item: #109 of 388 id: ijahp-315 author: Ganguly, Anirban; Merino, Donald N title: AN INTEGRATED AHP-QFD APPROACH FOR EVALUATING COMPETING TECHNOLOGICAL PROCESSES date: 2015-12-21 words: 8533 flesch: 41 summary: The purpose of the paper is to evaluate an integrated multi-criteria approach for the selection of competing manufacturing processes. Hence, it can be concluded that when using the integrated AHP-QFD technique for process selection, the MAOS method is clearly the preferred choice for the decision makers. keywords: ahp; approach; customer; decision; hierarchy; hierarchy process; journal; process; processes; qfd; qfd approach; requirements; research; selection; technical cache: ijahp-315.pdf plain text: ijahp-315.txt item: #110 of 388 id: ijahp-319 author: Kumar, Sanjay; Luthra, Sunil; Haleem, Abid title: CRITICAL FACTORS IMPORTANT FOR EFFECTIVE INDUSTRY- INSTITUTE INTERACTIONS (III): AN INDIAN PERSPECTIVE date: 2016-04-20 words: 13429 flesch: 32 summary: 7. Discussion and managerial implications Due to globalization, intense global competition, rapid technological changes, shorter product life cycles, and environment and social issues Indian industries are under tremendous pressure to incorporate changes into their business practices and are exploring innovative methods to reduce environmental and social impacts, operating costs, lead time, and inventory to sustain their growth in the market. Institute research may be beneficial to Indian industries by facilitating the advancement of knowledge and new technologies to increase sustainability in today’s business environment. keywords: article; cfs; dimensions; education; factors; government; haleem; hierarchy; iii; indian; industry; institute; institute interactions; interactions; international; issn; issue; journal; kumar; luthra; management; perspective; process; research; university; vol cache: ijahp-319.pdf plain text: ijahp-319.txt item: #111 of 388 id: ijahp-321 author: Saaty, Thomas L. title: About a Hundred Years of Creativity in Decision Making date: 2015-03-11 words: 2988 flesch: 47 summary: Multicriteria decision methods: an attempt to evaluate and unify. In Fandel, G., Gal, T. (Eds), Multiple criteria decision making theory and application, (150-159). keywords: decision; desktop/2015%20papers; ergu; file:///c:/users; journal; making; mcdm%20paper-2; methods; saaty cache: ijahp-321.pdf plain text: ijahp-321.txt item: #112 of 388 id: ijahp-322 author: Mu, Enrique title: The IJAHP Road Ahead date: 2015-03-11 words: 322 flesch: 58 summary: In addition, as previously announced, we are using DOIs for all our published articles, ensuring that IJAHP articles persist in the digital world. In summary, we intend to keep IJAHP growing not only in number of articles but also in quality and recognition. keywords: year cache: ijahp-322.pdf plain text: ijahp-322.txt item: #113 of 388 id: ijahp-324 author: Ferretti, Valentina title: University of Zagreb Awards Enrique Mu, IJAHP Editor-in-Chief, a Friend of the Faculty of Organization and Informatics date: 2015-03-25 words: 367 flesch: 47 summary: Ferretti/University of Zagreb Awards Enrique Mu Friend of the Faculty of Organization and Informatics International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 145 Vol. 7 Issue 1 2015 ISSN 1936-6744 http://dx.doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v7i1.324 University of Zagreb Awards Enrique Mu, IJAHP Editor-in-Chief, a Friend of the Faculty of Organization and Informatics Valentina On December 18, 2014 Enrique Mu, Associate Professor at the Carlow University, Co-Director of the MBA program and Editor-in-Chief of the IJAHP, was honored by the University of Zagreb in a live ceremony using a special video link as a Friend of the Faculty of Organization and Informatics. keywords: university cache: ijahp-324.pdf plain text: ijahp-324.txt item: #114 of 388 id: ijahp-325 author: Hadiono, Kristophorus title: A PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATION OF INTERVAL ARITHMETIC IN AHP date: 2016-09-19 words: 6131 flesch: 53 summary: With the implementation of interval numbers in AHP, the decision makers do not have to choose any method as in fuzzy AHP from the beginning of the process. Keywords: AHP; interval arithmetic; interval numbers; decision making 1. keywords: ahp; alternative; arithmetic; criteria; decision; interval; numbers; process cache: ijahp-325.pdf plain text: ijahp-325.txt item: #115 of 388 id: ijahp-330 author: Ferretti, Valentina title: INFORMS 2014 Highlights date: 2015-04-14 words: 382 flesch: 33 summary: In particular, several interesting studies dealing with the AHP and ANP were presented. To name a few inspiring ones, Magda Gabriela Sava, Jerrold May and Luis Vargas proposed a study dealing with sensitivity analysis for Analytic Network Models; Daisuke Amano and Yasutaka Kainuma suggested the development of a customer satisfaction function based on Kano’s Quality Model and the AHP; Halil Cobuloglu and Esra Buyuktahtakin developed a stochastic AHP Model for Sustainable Biomass Crop Selection; Lin Su, Bing Gou, Xia Wang and Xin Zheng evaluated the degree of city-production integration of Shanghai High-tech industrial park by applying the fuzzy AHP; William Fox proposed modeling and sensitivity analysis to MADM overlay and used the AHP to find node influences in the Noordin Dark Network; and Fesseha Gebremikael, Iddrisu Awudu and Khalid Bachkar developed a deterministic model using the AHP for agriculture feed processing supply chain modeling. keywords: ahp; conference cache: ijahp-330.pdf plain text: ijahp-330.txt item: #116 of 388 id: ijahp-332 author: Lipovetsky, Stan S. title: AHP STRUCTURING IN BEST-WORST SCALING AND THE SECRETARY PROBLEM date: 2016-12-21 words: 4745 flesch: 55 summary: BWS is used for finding choice probabilities among the compared items, but when there are a large number of items it is rather difficult to apply this approach directly to all the items. Keywords: AHP; BWS; hierarchical structuring; secretary problem; choice probability 1. keywords: ahp; bws; choice; doi; hierarchy; items; journal; lipovetsky; problem; process; secretary cache: ijahp-332.pdf plain text: ijahp-332.txt item: #117 of 388 id: ijahp-334 author: Minhas, Amer Imran title: GIS BASED GEO HAZARD ASSESSMENT OF PAKISTAN FOR FUTURE URBAN DEVELOPMENT USING AHP date: 2015-12-21 words: 5902 flesch: 49 summary: Minhas/GIS based geo hazard assessment of Pakistan for future urban development using AHP International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 410 Vol. 7 Issue 3 2015 ISSN 1936-6744 http://dx.doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v7i2.334 Figure 2. Worst Less Suitable Suitable Extremely Suitable Roads Tracks Railways IJAHP Article: Minhas/GIS based geo hazard assessment of Pakistan for future urban development using AHP International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 423 Vol. 7 Issue 3 2015 ISSN 1936-6744 http://dx.doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v7i3.334 Table 6 High risk districts District Area distribution in suitability zones (%) Population distribution (%) as per Density (Pers / Sq km) keywords: ahp; development; gis; hazard; hierarchy; international; journal; map; pakistan; process; values cache: ijahp-334.pdf plain text: ijahp-334.txt item: #118 of 388 id: ijahp-335 author: Patel, Gokulananda; Mjema, Godwin D; Godwin, Kasio M title: LINEAR PROGRAMMING MODELS FOR ESTIMATING WEIGHTS IN ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS AND FOR OPTIMIZATION OF HUMAN RESOURCE ALLOCATION date: 2016-09-19 words: 6331 flesch: 51 summary: Patel, Mjema Godwin/ Linear programming models for estimating weights in Analytic Hierarchy Process and for optimization of human resource allocation International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 299 Vol. 8 Issue 2 2016 ISSN 1936-6744 http://dx.doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v8i2.335 LINEAR PROGRAMMING MODELS FOR ESTIMATING WEIGHTS IN ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS AND FOR OPTIMIZATION OF HUMAN RESOURCE ALLOCATION Gokulananda Patel Professor of Decision Science, Birla Institute of Management Technology Greater Noida India gn.patel@bimtech.ac.in Godwin Mjema Institute of Finance Management Dar Es Salam, Tanzania gdmjema@gmail.com K M Godwin Institute of Finance Management Dar Es Salam, Tanzania casymj30@gmail.com In this paper we used Linear Programming (LP) models to estimate the weights of a pairwise comparison matrix derived within the frame work of the Analytic Hierarchy Process. keywords: allocation; hierarchy; hierarchy process; journal; models; process; programming; resource; weights cache: ijahp-335.pdf plain text: ijahp-335.txt item: #119 of 388 id: ijahp-337 author: Garuti, Claudio title: Parallel Between Space Geometry & Decision Making Space (Modelling the Growing Complexity of Measurement) date: 2015-08-12 words: 3096 flesch: 48 summary: Coordinate System for curved space in a rigid frame. 5 Scientific American, August 2009 More Idealistic Flat space No weights (The DM space is built on an ordinal kind of scale) Curved space in a rigid frame AHP model. keywords: decision; geometry; making; point; space cache: ijahp-337.pdf plain text: ijahp-337.txt item: #120 of 388 id: ijahp-340 author: Mostafa, Sherif; Abdelhamid, Tariq; Chileshe, Nicholas; Dumrak, Jantanee title: DECISION SUPPORT MODEL USING ANP TO ALIGN LEAGILE STRATEGIES TO OFF-SITE MANUFACTURING IN AUSTRALIA date: 2015-12-21 words: 12335 flesch: 52 summary: The aim of this study is to introduce OSM house building supply strategies to Australian house builders. However, their study has not demonstrated the CODP which is regarded as a significant component for the house customers’ preferences and has excluded the practices of lean and agile required for house building supply chain. keywords: anp; australia; building; chain; construction; decision; doi; hierarchy; house; house building; housing; international; journal; leagile; leagile strategies; lean; manufacturing; model; osm; process; production; research; site; strategies; supply cache: ijahp-340.pdf plain text: ijahp-340.txt item: #121 of 388 id: ijahp-341 author: Sagir, Mujgan; Saaty, Thomas L. title: RANKING COUNTRIES MORE RELIABLY IN THE SUMMER OLYMPICS date: 2015-12-21 words: 6441 flesch: 58 summary: Our methodology consists of the following steps: 1) An ANP model is developed to assign weights to different criteria used to prioritize different games and events in each game. 2) Expert knowledge is used to define the criteria and evaluate the games and events. 3) How to evaluate different games and different events involved in each game Based on the previous discussion, it appears that declaring a winning country by adding all medals may not reflect the quality of the games that are won by the athletes from that country. keywords: bronze; countries; games; gold; medals; olympics; ranking; silver; summer; summer olympics; table cache: ijahp-341.pdf plain text: ijahp-341.txt item: #122 of 388 id: ijahp-343 author: Saracoglu, Burak Omer; Mahallesi, Orhantepe; Caddesi, Tekel; Sokak, Geziyolu title: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF AHP, ELECTRE III & ELECTRE IV BY EQUAL OBJECTIVE & SHANNON'S ENTROPY OBJECTIVE & SAATY'S SUBJECTIVE CRITERIA WEIGHTING IN A PRIVATE SMALL HYDROPOWER PLANTS INVESTMENTS SELECTION PROBLEM date: 2015-12-21 words: 18068 flesch: 48 summary: Consequently, this study focuses on private small hydropower plant investment decisions. Saracoglu (2015a) conducted an experimental research study to understand how private small hydropower plant investments could be selected by two ELECTRE methods with different weighting approaches. keywords: ahp; ahp weighting; alternative; criteria; decision; electre; electre iii; entropy; entropy objective; figure; hierarchy; hydropower; hydropower plants; international; investment; journal; methods; objective; problem; process; saaty; saracoglu; selection; shannon; study; turkey; weighting cache: ijahp-343.pdf plain text: ijahp-343.txt item: #123 of 388 id: ijahp-344 author: Ferretti, Valentina title: Youngstown State University Awards Professor Birsen Karpak Title of Distinguished Professor date: 2015-08-12 words: 283 flesch: 39 summary: IJAHP News: Ferretti/ Youngstown State University Awards Professor Birsen Karpak Title of Distinguished Professor International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 371 Vol. 7 Issue 2 2015 ISSN 1936-6744 http://dx.doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v7i2.344 Youngstown State University Awards Professor Birsen Karpak Title of Distinguished Professor Valentina Ferretti It is both a pleasure and an honor to announce and celebrate an important award that Professor Birsen Karpak, one of the members of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process, recently received. keywords: professor cache: ijahp-344.pdf plain text: ijahp-344.txt item: #124 of 388 id: ijahp-345 author: Mu, Enrique title: On the Nature of Essays date: 2015-08-12 words: 262 flesch: 63 summary: A comment on our policy for essays may be in order. Furthermore, it also includes a thought-provoking essay by Claudio Garuti titled “Parallel Between Space Geometry & Decision Making Space.” keywords: essay cache: ijahp-345.pdf plain text: ijahp-345.txt item: #125 of 388 id: ijahp-354 author: Gul, Sait; Topcu, Ilker title: A MULTI-ATTRIBUTE DECISION SUPPORT MODEL FOR THE SELECTION OF TOURISTIC ACTIVITIES date: 2015-12-21 words: 12336 flesch: 52 summary: Keywords: Touristic preferences; touristic decision factors; touristic activity alternatives; AHP; TOPSIS 1. In this model, AHP provides the importance of decision factors and TOPSIS analyzes the decision matrix which includes the importance of factors and the points of the alternatives with respect to the decision factors determined by the tourism experts. keywords: activities; activity; ahp; alternatives; attribute; candidate; decision; et al; factors; hierarchy; importance; international; journal; matrix; model; preferences; process; selection; tourist cache: ijahp-354.pdf plain text: ijahp-354.txt item: #126 of 388 id: ijahp-355 author: Yom Din, Gregory title: DO INDUSTRY AND ACADEMIC EXPERTS DIFFER IN WEIGHTING CRITERIA FOR AGRICULTURAL PLANNING AND IN THEIR LOSS AVERSION? date: 2016-04-20 words: 5885 flesch: 52 summary: The impact of climate and price factors was taken into account – expert judgements on the criterion of normal year profit were compared to those on dry year profit and profit in agricultural price rise years. For this purpose, they ranked and weighted several breeding and economic criteria using the AHP method and responses of industry and agricultural experts. keywords: aversion; criteria; experts; importance; industry; loss; price; profit; rise; year; year profit cache: ijahp-355.pdf plain text: ijahp-355.txt item: #127 of 388 id: ijahp-356 author: Chaudhury, Ayan; Mandal, Bijoy; Das, Santanu title: SELECTION OF APPROPRIATE FLUID DELIVERY TECHNIQUE FOR GRINDING TITANIUM GRADE-1 USING THE ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS date: 2015-12-21 words: 6616 flesch: 56 summary: (1992) observed that only 4 to 30% of grinding fluid passes through the grinding zone in flood cooling systems, and hence, a large quantity of grinding fluid is wasted. Single point 0.5 carat diamond dresser Dressing depth: 20 µm Speed of dressing: 0.36 m/min Grinding condition Mode of grinding: Up grinding Grinding wheel velocity (Vc): 30 m/s Table feed: 7 m/min Infeed: 10, 20 and 30 µm Grinding environment Dry Wet with water soluble oil (1:20)  keywords: delivery; fluid; grinding; hierarchy; hierarchy process; process; surface; titanium; wheel cache: ijahp-356.pdf plain text: ijahp-356.txt item: #128 of 388 id: ijahp-357 author: Mu, Enrique title: The Critical Role of Journal Reviewers date: 2015-12-21 words: 657 flesch: 55 summary: IJAHP: Mu/The critical role of journal reviewers International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 372 Vol. 7 Issue 3 2015 ISSN 1936-6744 http://dx.doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v7i3.357 The Critical Role of Journal Reviewers Any journal relies on voluntary peer reviewers to ensure the quality of research articles. Mu/The critical role of journal reviewers International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 373 Vol. 7 Issue 3 2015 ISSN 1936-6744 http://dx.doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v7i3.357 not give awards to the dozens of colleagues who have contributed such exemplary reviews for our journal. keywords: paper cache: ijahp-357.pdf plain text: ijahp-357.txt item: #129 of 388 id: ijahp-358 author: Li, Wentao; Wilson, Doug J; Larkin, Tam J title: MARGINAL MATERIAL EVALUATION AND SELECTION USING ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS MODEL date: 2017-05-10 words: 8523 flesch: 47 summary: To achieve the goal (finding marginal aggregate materials), six aggregates were provided as alternatives. In the following part, these five aggregates are named as M4 aggregate 1 (M4 aggregate from Quarry 1), M4 aggregate 2 (M4 aggregate from Quarry 2), marginal aggregate 1A and 1B (both from Quarry 1) and marginal aggregate 2 (from Quarry 2) in accordance with their utilization in field road construction. keywords: aggregate; ahp; criteria; hierarchy process; materials; model; performance; process; properties cache: ijahp-358.pdf plain text: ijahp-358.txt item: #130 of 388 id: ijahp-359 author: Ferretti, Valentina title: Outstanding Reviewer Awards date: 2015-12-21 words: 572 flesch: 50 summary: Unfortunately, we cannot give awards to the dozens of colleagues who have contributed to the journal by being a reviewer, but we hope that our honoured reviewers constitute a representation of all the hard working reviewers who make this journal possible. Yet, I never thought about receiving any kind of award (I just tried to do my best). keywords: ijahp; journal cache: ijahp-359.pdf plain text: ijahp-359.txt item: #131 of 388 id: ijahp-360 author: Ferretti, Valentina title: MCDM 2015 Highlights date: 2015-12-21 words: 1768 flesch: 18 summary: Ilker Topcu chaired a session on Integrated MCDM applications, hosting the following talks: “A fuzzy-AHP based approach for a multi-objective multi-level closed-loop supply chain model” by Turan Paksoy, Selçuk University, Turkey, “An AHP model for determining appropriate public locations for automated external defibrillator deployment: a case study in the city of Valencia” by Ilker Topcu, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey, “A new multi objective linear programming model for optimizing a closed loop supply chain network using fuzzy AHP” by Abdullah Yildizbasi, Yildirim Beyazit University, Turkey. Applying strong sustainability theory to the UKs HS2 assessment using multiplicative AHP decision support model” by Yannick Cornet, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark. keywords: ahp; anp; conference; contributions; international; mcdm; session; turkey; university cache: ijahp-360.pdf plain text: ijahp-360.txt item: #132 of 388 id: ijahp-364 author: Saaty, Thomas L. title: Plato And Aristotle's Missing Axiom Of Logical Thought: Creativity And Priorities date: 2015-12-21 words: 977 flesch: 52 summary: Through making comparisons using judgments, we are able, by using the AHP/ANP, to derive priorities with respect to multiple criteria and combine them to obtain an overall order of things. The only way we know a thing is by comparing it with other things, or with our memories of other things. keywords: things; thought cache: ijahp-364.pdf plain text: ijahp-364.txt item: #133 of 388 id: ijahp-365 author: Gupta, Rakesh M K; Makrigeorgis, Christos title: PRIORITIZATION OF SMALL BUSINESS ENTERPRISE OWNER CONCERNS ABOUT THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT USING THE ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS date: 2016-04-20 words: 7304 flesch: 44 summary: Among health insurance coverage concerns, quality of care was the top- ranked concern followed by plan choice. AHP-OS Pairwise Questionnaire of SBE concerns on ACA 3.1 Population and sampling The AHP analysis was based on a sample of 50 SBE owners representing 5 industry groups in Richmond, Virginia. keywords: ahp; business; care; concerns; health; hierarchy; hierarchy process; insurance; journal; owners; process; sbe; small cache: ijahp-365.pdf plain text: ijahp-365.txt item: #134 of 388 id: ijahp-367 author: Ferretti, Valentina title: INFORMS 2015 Highlights date: 2015-12-21 words: 302 flesch: 38 summary: Ferretti/INFORMS 2015 highlights International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 619 Vol. 7 Issue 3 2015 ISSN 1936-6744 http://dx.doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v7i3.367 INFORMS 2015 HIGHLIGHTS Valentina Ferretti, Department of Management, London School of Economics and Political Science The 2015 INFORMS Annual Meeting took place in vibrant Philadelphia. Ferretti/INFORMS 2015 highlights International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 620 Vol. 7 Issue 3 2015 ISSN 1936-6744 http://dx.doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v7i3.367 Figure 2. keywords: process cache: ijahp-367.pdf plain text: ijahp-367.txt item: #135 of 388 id: ijahp-368 author: Bhandari, Ashish; Nakarmi, Amrit Man title: A FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF COMMERCIAL BANKS IN NEPAL USING AHP MODEL date: 2016-09-19 words: 6006 flesch: 46 summary: The financial ratios used to assess bank performance were taken based on the Analytic Hierarchy Process framework in which hierarchical criteria were determined based on CAEL (Capital Adequacy, Asset Quality, Efficiency and Liquidity. Keywords: AHP; bank performance; Nepal 1. keywords: ahp; banks; capital; evaluation; hierarchy; international; journal; model; nepal; performance; process; total cache: ijahp-368.pdf plain text: ijahp-368.txt item: #136 of 388 id: ijahp-373 author: Strojny, Jacek; Hejman, Wim title: AHP BASED MULTICRITERIA COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF REGIONS OF EASTERN POLAND date: 2016-04-20 words: 10883 flesch: 52 summary: This is quite aligned in Eastern Poland regions who received assessments in scope Pi∈〈0.41;0.46〉. Eastern regions are weak here – At∈〈0.07; 0.16〉. keywords: ahp; analysis; article; competitiveness; development; eastern; eastern poland; economic; government; inhabitants; international; journal; management; number; poland; potential; process; regions cache: ijahp-373.pdf plain text: ijahp-373.txt item: #137 of 388 id: ijahp-374 author: Jayant, Arvind title: SELECTION OF REVERSE LOGISTICS SERVICE PROVIDER (RLSP) USING ANALYTICAL NETWORK PROCESS (ANP): A CASE STUDY OF AN AUTOMOTIVE COMPANY date: 2016-04-20 words: 11720 flesch: 46 summary: 8 Customer service (CS) A good performance towards customers of the provider is reflected by measures such as delivery performance, performance-monitoring capability, statistical data reporting to the user, fault diagnosis capability, detailed accounting information, system security, responsiveness, confidentiality of sensitive data, etc. 9 Customer satisfaction (CSF) Level of customer satisfaction of reverse logistics service provider company in the business environment. After comprehensive evaluation, we can assist decision makers of XYZ limited in assessing the relative ranking of logistics service providers. keywords: anp; case; company; comparison; criteria; decision; hierarchy; journal; logistics; logistics service; matrix; network process; pair; process; provider; selection; service; service provider cache: ijahp-374.pdf plain text: ijahp-374.txt item: #138 of 388 id: ijahp-380 author: Das, Ankur; Das, Santanu title: SUPPLIER SELECTION FOR A PUMP MANUFACTURING ORGANIZATION BY HYBRID AHP-TOPSIS TECHNIQUE AND ITS IMPACT ON INVENTORY date: 2016-09-19 words: 7563 flesch: 47 summary: Supplier selection criteria are based on green purchasing, i.e. purchasing of environmentally-friendly components, consumables, etc. of a pump manufacturing organization. Different criteria that have a good impact on inventory and the environment are considered for supplier selection. keywords: ahp; criteria; das; green; inventory; items; journal; manufacturing; pump; selection; supplier; technique; topsis cache: ijahp-380.pdf plain text: ijahp-380.txt item: #139 of 388 id: ijahp-381 author: Saaty, Thomas L. title: Pairwise Comparisons and their Contribution to Understanding Consciousness date: 2016-04-20 words: 579 flesch: 38 summary: The priorities are derived from pairwise comparison matrices which lead to the consideration of eigenvalues, in particular the principal eigenvalue, of a positive and occasionally nonnegative matrix. In the supermatrix, the entries are block matrices whose columns are eigenvectors derived from paired comparison matrices. keywords: comparisons; priorities cache: ijahp-381.pdf plain text: ijahp-381.txt item: #140 of 388 id: ijahp-382 author: Mu, Enrique title: Open Access Journals as Global Agoras date: 2016-04-20 words: 308 flesch: 49 summary: However, we do expect potential authors to be familiar with the ongoing IJAHP conversation about the topic of choice as this shows their suitability to join our specific agora to discuss the particular selected topic. IJAHP: Mu/ Open access journal as global agoras International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 1 Vol. 8 Issue 1 2016 ISSN 1936-6744 http://dx.doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v8i1.382 April 2016 Open Access Journals as Global Agoras Dear IJAHP Reader: The ancient Greeks used to congregate in the agora, a central open space or square in their city states, to listen to statements from the council or military bosses or to simply discuss politics as needed. keywords: journal cache: ijahp-382.pdf plain text: ijahp-382.txt item: #141 of 388 id: ijahp-383 author: Ferretti, Valentina title: Looking Forward to ISAHP2016 in London, UK! date: 2016-04-20 words: 618 flesch: 37 summary: Ferretti/ISAHP 2016 International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 201 Vol. 8 Issue 1 2016 ISSN 1936-6744 http://dx.doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v8i1.383 We are looking forward to seeing you at the ISAHP 2016 Symposium which will take place August 4 - 7, 2016, in London, UK ! Ferretti/ISAHP 2016 International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 202 Vol. 8 Issue 1 2016 ISSN 1936-6744 http://dx.doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v8i1.383 Young Scholars opportunities ISAHP 2016 will be a great opportunity for students at the Masters and PhD level to live the experience of an international conference. keywords: isahp; journal cache: ijahp-383.pdf plain text: ijahp-383.txt item: #142 of 388 id: ijahp-384 author: Öneren, Melahat; Arar, Tayfun; Çelebioglu, Eda Sultan title: DETERMINING THE OVERALL STRESS FACTORS FOR POLICEMEN BY AHP METHOD date: 2016-12-21 words: 6065 flesch: 53 summary: In one study involving 157 academicians in Sweden, stress factors were researched and time limits were found to be the most affective stressor (Lindfors et al., 2009). Although, the existing literature about stress factors of policemen show some differences in the most important stress factors such as killing someone in the line of duty, administrative matters and relationship with non-police, this study showed that the most important factor in our context is “Danger Level” (Violanti & Aron, 1995; Storch & Panzarella, 1996). keywords: ahp; criterion; factors; hierarchy; job; journal; method; policemen; process; stress; stress factors; work cache: ijahp-384.pdf plain text: ijahp-384.txt item: #143 of 388 id: ijahp-387 author: Kahraman, Cengiz; Boltürk, Eda; Çevik Onar, Sezi; Öztay?i, Ba?ar; Göztepe, Kerim title: MULTIATTRIBUTE WAREHOUSE LOCATION SELECTION IN HUMANITARIAN LOGISTICS USING HESITANT FUZZY AHP date: 2016-09-19 words: 9866 flesch: 40 summary: Table 1 summarizes the attributes used in warehouse location selection problems in the literature. Warehouse location selection in humanitarian logistics (HL) is a challenging process because choosing a non-optimal location may cause additional problems during rescue activities. keywords: ahp; attribute; cost; doi; fuzzy; hierarchy; international; journal; location; location selection; logistics; multi; onar; process; selection; sets; warehouse; warehouse location cache: ijahp-387.pdf plain text: ijahp-387.txt item: #144 of 388 id: ijahp-395 author: Saaty, Thomas L. title: FIVE WAYS TO COMBINE TANGIBLES WITH INTANGIBLES date: 2016-09-19 words: 3715 flesch: 68 summary: i h w w w w w w w w w w  Proof: Let ( ) s ij M w , I =1,…, n; j=1,…,m; s=1,…,S be the matrix of measurements of tangible i with respect to criterion j with scale s. keywords: w w;  ;   cache: ijahp-395.pdf plain text: ijahp-395.txt item: #145 of 388 id: ijahp-40 author: Islam, Rafikul; Ismail, Yusof title: MALAYSIA ON COURSE TO BECOME A DEVELOPED COUNTRY: PRIORITIZING ISSUES WITH THE ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS date: 2010-12-31 words: 10097 flesch: 47 summary: No Not Sure Do you think that Malaysia can achieve the status of developed nation by 2020? Do you think that the initiatives from the government to achieve the status of developed nation are enough? 190 (25.0) 315 (41.5) 239 (31.5) keywords: country; development; government; hierarchy; international; islam; issues; journal; malaysia; nation; process; society; vision cache: ijahp-40.pdf plain text: ijahp-40.txt item: #146 of 388 id: ijahp-404 author: Muniz Jr, Jorge; Nascimento, Luis Oliveira; Martins, Henrique Rocha; Rangel, Luis Alberto Duncan title: FLEXIBILITY ASSESSMENT TO MITIGATE COMPLEXITY: TRUCKS PRODUCTION ANALYSIS date: 2017-05-10 words: 4993 flesch: 36 summary: Scale: Importance Intensity Definition (...from na alternative to other) 1 Equal importance 3 Little more importance 5 Somewhat Importance 7 Great Importance 9 Absolute Importance To increase Production Flexibility, indicate the relative importance of the following strategies: The alternatives follow the same structure of questions. Product variety influences production flexibility, which, in turn, results in complexity in the operation. keywords: analysis; complexity; doi; flexibility; hierarchy; https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v9i1.404; international; journal; lean; management; manufacturing; process; production; research cache: ijahp-404.pdf plain text: ijahp-404.txt item: #147 of 388 id: ijahp-406 author: Kohara, Kazuhiro; Sugiyama, Takuya title: SIMULATING TSUNAMI EVACUATION WITH MULTI-AGENTS AND DETERMINING A COUNTERMEASURE WITH AHP date: 2016-12-21 words: 3708 flesch: 59 summary: Introduction Multiagent-based social simulations have been extensively investigated, and various attempts have been made to apply them to the layout design of supermarkets, stock markets, sales prediction and tsunami evacuation (Yamane et al. 2012; Panayi et al. 2012; Kohara et al. 2014; Saito et al. 2005). The tsunami height is crucial for tsunami evacuation; however, a countermeasure against a 10 meter high tsunami is important. keywords: evacuation; number; shelter; success; tsunami cache: ijahp-406.pdf plain text: ijahp-406.txt item: #148 of 388 id: ijahp-410 author: Chung, Kumho; Yoon, Min-Suk title: ANALYSIS OF IMPROVEMENT ELEMENTS OF WALKING ENVIRONMENT ON KOREA TRADITONAL MARKETS USING ANALYTIC HEIRARCHY PROCESS date: 2016-12-21 words: 4083 flesch: 52 summary: Table 2 Hierarchy of walking environment elements in traditional markets Top Level 1 Level 2 Improvement Elements of Walking Environment Safety sidewalk width, lack of sidewalk, illegal parking, obstacles, sidewalk slope, billboards, bicycle roads, speed bumps Comfort street vegetation, street lights, landscape, pedestrians, cul-de-sacs, traffic, vehicle speed, stalls Convenience paving, benches, trash bins, information signs, public transportation, parking Interest shopping, price negotiation, pitchmen, street vendors, people watching, crowdedness, activities, noise 2. IJAHP Article: Chung, Yoon/ Analysis of elements to improve the walking environment in Korean traditional markets using Analytic Hierarchy Process International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 487 Vol. 8 Issue 3 2016 ISSN 1936-6744 http://dx.doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v8i3.410 Table 8 Priority of walking elements at TM Elements on Level 1 Elements on Level 2 Priorities Overall priorities Ranking Safety Sidewalk width 0.179 0.023 17 Lack of sidewalk 0.159 0.020 19 Illegal parking 0.193 0.025 keywords: elements; environment; hierarchy; hierarchy process; markets; process; street; tms; walking cache: ijahp-410.pdf plain text: ijahp-410.txt item: #149 of 388 id: ijahp-411 author: Sapkota, Prabal; Pokharel, Martina; Pandey, Madhav Prasad title: IDENTIFYING THE MOST SUITABLE SUSTAINABLE ENERGY SYSTEM FOR NEPAL USING ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS date: 2016-09-19 words: 6914 flesch: 45 summary: Madhav P. Pandey School of Engineering, Kathmandu University Dhulikhel, Kavre, Nepal mpp@ku.edu.np ABSTRACT The issue of climate change and energy crisis can be resolved by the advancement of sustainable energy systems. Furthermore, people reckon that the socio-economic factor should be of highest priority among factors while selecting sustainable energy systems for Nepal. keywords: alternatives; change; climate; development; energy; factors; hierarchy; hierarchy process; nepal; process; sapkota; system cache: ijahp-411.pdf plain text: ijahp-411.txt item: #150 of 388 id: ijahp-413 author: Milkova, Maria; Andreichikova, Olga title: Software Announcement: Multichoice as a New Software for Decision Making with Analytic Network Process date: 2016-09-19 words: 2341 flesch: 44 summary: Multichoice software is based on the following concepts:  Ferretti/Software announcement: Multichoice as new software for decision making with Analytic Network Process International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 388 Vol. 8 Issue 2 2016 ISSN 1936-6744 http://dx.doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v8i2.413 SOFTWARE ANNOUNCEMENT: MULTICHOICE AS NEW SOFTWARE FOR DECISION MAKING WITH ANALYTIC NETWORK PROCESS 1 Maria Milkova Central Institute of Economics and Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Science m.a.milkova@gmail.com Olga Andreichikova Central Institute of Economics and Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Science alexandrol@mail.ru ABSTRACT keywords: decision; multichoice; network; process; software cache: ijahp-413.pdf plain text: ijahp-413.txt item: #151 of 388 id: ijahp-415 author: Saaty, Thomas L.; Wei, Lirong title: SHOULD THE UK HAVE BREXITED THE EUROPEAN UNION? date: 2016-09-19 words: 3771 flesch: 59 summary: Sterling fall 6) Loss of the biggest trading partner POLITICAL 1) Reduce UK influence on EU 2) Harder to keep close foreign-policy links with EU 3) Loss of tax revenue from leaving SECURITY 1) ISSN 1936-6744 http://dx.doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v8i2.415 ECONOMIC 1) Decline of financial services industry 2) Decline of law firms industry 3) London may no longer be finance center of Europe 4) Risks of diminishing investment from EU 5) US and UK ties may weaken POLITICAL 1) Diminish UK influence in world affairs 2) Harder to keep close foreign-policy links with EU 3) Risk of losing the UK's prosperity 4) Risk of Scotland leaving the UK SECURITY 1) Cause much possible collateral damage to UK’s security 2) Potential risk for conflict with EU 3) Weaken border control through EU police cooperation SOCIAL 1) keywords: european union; hierarchy; issue; journal; process; saaty; wei/ cache: ijahp-415.pdf plain text: ijahp-415.txt item: #152 of 388 id: ijahp-416 author: Mu, Enrique title: IJAHP and the Next Generation of AHP/ANP Scholars date: 2016-09-19 words: 660 flesch: 52 summary: This book offers a very diverse IJAHP: Mu/IJAHP and the next generation of AHP/ANP scholars International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 205 Vol. 8 Issue 2 2016 ISSN 1936-6744 http://dx.doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v8i2.416 compendium of AHP applications and some very interesting theoretical discussions. Rebello de Souza Jr, titled, “Cognitive maps and AHP for supplier selection in a private higher education institution”. keywords: ahp; scholars cache: ijahp-416.pdf plain text: ijahp-416.txt item: #153 of 388 id: ijahp-417 author: Adams, William; Rokou, Elena title: Why Simplify AHP? date: 2016-09-19 words: 990 flesch: 59 summary: William Adams wjladams@gmail.com Elena Rokou Creative Decisions Foundation erokou@icloud.com AHP and ANP are very well developed mathematical theories with many practitioners, so why should anyone research methods to simplify these processes? Adams, Rokou/Why simplify AHP? keywords: ahp; process cache: ijahp-417.pdf plain text: ijahp-417.txt item: #154 of 388 id: ijahp-419 author: Petrillo, Antonella; Mu, Enrique title: AHP Book Announcements date: 2016-09-19 words: 663 flesch: 36 summary: Thus, the purpose of this book is to provide an introduction to the theory and applications in the field of decision making, especially focused on Analytic Hierarchy Process. This book presents some application examples of Analytic Hierarchy Process. keywords: book; process cache: ijahp-419.pdf plain text: ijahp-419.txt item: #155 of 388 id: ijahp-42 author: Lipovetsky, Stan title: AN INTERPRETATION OF THE AHP EIGENVECTOR SOLUTION FOR THE LAY PERSON date: 2010-12-31 words: 1722 flesch: 60 summary: But AHP priority vectors are conventionally normalized so the total equals one: (7) 1 1 ==′ ∑ = n i ie αα , So the vector (5) becomes proportional to relative mean values, (8) ( )′= nsss ,...,, 21)2(α , defined as: (9) .1, 1 1 == ∑ ∑ = = n j jn k k j j s m m s Using the vector in (8) in place of the initial uniform vector in (3) yields the next approximation (4) to the eigenvector which again equals the weighted mean value: IJAHP ARTICLE: This paper describes how to interpret AHP solutions. keywords: ahp; process;   cache: ijahp-42.pdf plain text: ijahp-42.txt item: #156 of 388 id: ijahp-421 author: Ferretti, Valentina title: ISAHP meeting in London, August 4 – August 7, 2016 date: 2016-09-19 words: 642 flesch: 27 summary: To kick off the meeting and warm up the atmosphere with helpful scientific findings, the first day of the event started with a series of workshops dealing with “User-need elicitation via AHP: study design and piloting”, “ANP sensitivity”, “Overview of the new Super Decisions software (V3.0) for the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Analytic Network Process” and, finally, “Simplifying AHP to make it accessible to youth”. The conference then hosted amazing keynote speakers: Adriana Velazquez Berumen from the Essential Medicines and Health Products Department in the World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, James G. Dolan M.D. from the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA, Edgardo Iozia from the European Economic and Social Committee, Belgium, Brussels, and Prasanta Kumar Dey from Aston University, Birmingham, UK. keywords: meeting; process; university cache: ijahp-421.pdf plain text: ijahp-421.txt item: #157 of 388 id: ijahp-422 author: Tecle, Aregai; Perez-Verdin, Gustavo title: ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS APPLICATION FOR MULTIPLE PURPOSE FOREST RESOURCES MANAGEMENT BUDGET ALLOCATION IN DURANGO, MEXICO date: 2018-02-28 words: 10607 flesch: 46 summary: Pairwise comparisons of forest resources management programs, and corresponding vector of weights (w) and other parameters related to each objectives. Twenty representative individuals involved in forest resources management were identified and asked to answer an online questionnaire to reveal their personal preferences on the way the budget for forest resources management in Durango should be allocated. keywords: allocation; budget; decision; development; doi; durango; forest; forest management; forest resources; hierarchy process; journal; management; mexico; multi; objective; process; programs; resources; resources management; tecle cache: ijahp-422.pdf plain text: ijahp-422.txt item: #158 of 388 id: ijahp-438 author: Garuti, Claudio E. title: NEW ADVANCES OF THE COMPATIBILITY INDEX "G" IN WEIGHTED ENVIRONMENTS date: 2016-12-21 words: 9955 flesch: 54 summary: Keywords: Weighted environments; measurement; compatibility index G; order topology 1. Then, the concept of scales is presented, including compatibility, compatibility index G and some analogies between G and distance concept. keywords: case; compatibility; compatibility index; distance; environments; figure; garuti; index; issue; order; process; vectors cache: ijahp-438.pdf plain text: ijahp-438.txt item: #159 of 388 id: ijahp-442 author: Vachnadze, Revaz title: PRIORITIZATION OF PERFORMANCE MEASURES USING ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS date: 2016-12-21 words: 4660 flesch: 44 summary: IJAHP Article: Vachnadze/Prioritization of performance measures using Analytic Hierarchy Process International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 490 Vol. 8 Issue 3 2016 ISSN 1936-6744 http://dx.doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v8i3.442 PRIORITIZATION OF PERFORMANCE MEASURES USING ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS Revaz Vachnadze Full Professor, ESM Business School, Free University of Tbilisi; Visiting Professor, Georgian Institute of Public Affairs; Tbilisi, Georgia r.vachnadze@freeuni.edu.ge, revaz.vachnadze@gipa.ge ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to provide an integrated approach that prioritizes organizational performance measures and critical success factors towards the strategic objectives and initiatives of a firm. Keywords: Performance measures; Analytic Hierarchy Process; key performance indicators; key result indicators; critical success factors 1. keywords: csfs; hierarchy; hierarchy process; indicators; journal; kpis; measures; performance; prioritization; process cache: ijahp-442.pdf plain text: ijahp-442.txt item: #160 of 388 id: ijahp-443 author: Marcarelli, Gabriella title: EVALUATING HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS BY A NETWORK MODEL WHICH INTEGRATES ANP WITH A REVISED-BSC date: 2017-05-10 words: 7744 flesch: 35 summary: The Balanced Scorecard as a management tool for assessing and monitoring strategy implementation in health care organizations. Since the financing depends on the quality of services provided by the local health authority and its ability to attract users living outside the regional territory, in order to obtain greater financing, the GM of a local health organization could select policies that increase the quality of services and contain costs by also taking into account the healthcare offerings and demand in the regional and local territories by cooperating with other health organizations present locally (Clerico, 2015). keywords: anp; bsc; health; healthcare; hierarchy; https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v9i1.443; journal; marcarelli; metrics; model; network; objectives; organizations; performance; perspectives; process cache: ijahp-443.pdf plain text: ijahp-443.txt item: #161 of 388 id: ijahp-445 author: Karpak, Birsen title: Five Papers Presented at ISAHP 2014 are published in the International Journal of Production Economics date: 2016-12-21 words: 376 flesch: 16 summary: IJAHP News: Karpak, Shang/Five papers presented at ISAHP2014 are published in the International Journal of Production Economics International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 547 Vol. 8 Issue 3 2016 ISSN 1936-6744 http://dx.doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v8i3.445 FIVE PAPERS PRESENTED AT ISAHP 2014 ARE PUBLISHED IN THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION ECONOMICS Birsen Karpak Associate Editor, IJAHP, Guest Editor, IJPE Williamson College of Business Youngstown State University bkarpak@ijahp.org Jennifer Shang Guest Editor, IJPE Area Head, Business Analytics and Operations Katz Graduate School of Business University of Pittsburgh Eleven papers, out of 91 submitted, presented at the 13th International Symposium on the Analytic Hierarchy Process (ISAHP), held in Washington DC, USA, from June 29- July 2, 2014 were selected as candidate papers for the International Journal of Production Economics (IJPE) by the guest editors Drs. We thank the authors for preparing high quality papers that were publishable in the IJPE, and are very happy to be able to serve the AHP/ANP community! keywords: ijpe; karpak cache: ijahp-445.pdf plain text: ijahp-445.txt item: #162 of 388 id: ijahp-446 author: Karpak, Birsen title: MCDM 2017 is in Ottawa, Canada date: 2016-12-21 words: 135 flesch: 40 summary: Organizers invite you Ottawa for MCDM 2017 during Canada’s 150th birthday celebration! The 24th International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making will be organized in Ottawa, Canada, from July 10th to July 14th, 2017. keywords: mcdm cache: ijahp-446.pdf plain text: ijahp-446.txt item: #163 of 388 id: ijahp-448 author: Nisel, Seyhan; Özdemir, Muhlis title: ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS & ANALYTIC NETWORK PROCESS IN SPORT: A COMPREHENSIVE LITERATURE REVIEW date: 2016-12-21 words: 8227 flesch: 48 summary: Table 6 Top 10 highly cited papers (Google Scholar, November 19, 2016) Sport Branches Number of Publications Sport Branches Number of Publications Sport Branches Number of Publications Football 13 Athletics 4 Badminton 2 Basketball 9 Hockey 4 Cricket 2 Baseball 7 Tennis 3 Physical education 2 Olympic and National Games 7 American Football 2 Other sports and general studies 16 TOTAL: 71 3.6 Football studies As mentioned in the previous section, football has a dominant place among AHP studies in the field of sports. 3.7 Basketball studies Basketball was found to be the second most popular sport among AHP studies. keywords: 2014; ahp; anp; decision; doi; evaluation; football; hierarchy; international; journal; literature; performance; process; research; review; sports; studies; table cache: ijahp-448.pdf plain text: ijahp-448.txt item: #164 of 388 id: ijahp-450 author: Cooper, Orrin; Liu, Guoqing title: ACHIEVING THE DESIRED LEVEL OF DEPENDENCY IN ANP DECISION MODELS date: 2017-05-10 words: 9557 flesch: 48 summary: First, further investigation into the overall unit of measurement in an ANP model will allow criteria clusters to be combined into a general ANP model and facilitate comparisons across criteria clusters. This example with a single criterion in each criteria cluster clarifies that the need to perform criteria cluster comparisons for each alternative individually is not affected by the “tangibility” of the elements. keywords: alternatives; anp; criteria; criteria cluster; decision; hierarchy; model; process; supermatrix cache: ijahp-450.pdf plain text: ijahp-450.txt item: #165 of 388 id: ijahp-451 author: Mu, Enrique title: Do we need more AHP/ANP studies? date: 2016-12-21 words: 540 flesch: 55 summary: Recently, a paper submitted to a major journal was rejected by the editor with the indication that the AHP method was very well known so “another AHP study” was not needed for the time being. The AHP/ANP are tools that have been around for several decades, and have proven to be very suitable as multi-criteria decision-making methods to address all varieties of managerial and social problems and to integrate multiple opinions from a great variety of stakeholders. keywords: ahp; anp cache: ijahp-451.pdf plain text: ijahp-451.txt item: #166 of 388 id: ijahp-452 author: Salomon, Valerio A. P. title: Absolute Measurement and Ideal Synthesis on AHP date: 2016-12-21 words: 2399 flesch: 52 summary: My purpose is to call attention to different ways to apply AHP, highlighting three advantages: allowing one set alternatives greater than nine, avoiding rank reversal and providing overall priorities based on ideal priorities. The combination of ratings with ideal synthesis may bring many advantages for AHP application. keywords: priorities; project; synthesis cache: ijahp-452.pdf plain text: ijahp-452.txt item: #167 of 388 id: ijahp-453 author: Ferretti, Valentina title: Saaty's Recent Visit to China date: 2016-12-21 words: 642 flesch: 39 summary: We have listed the most relevant ones below:  lecture on Creativity at the Research Center on Fictitious Economy & Data Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences;  lectures and appointment as Adjunct Professor from October 2016 to September 2018 at the School of Economics and Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences;  appointment as Guest Professor of College of Management and Economics of Tianjin University (2016-2021) in recognition of this university being the location of the first ISAHP meeting in 1988;  Central University of Finance and Economics;  North China University of Technology;  lecture and appointment of a medal of honor at the Beijing Jiaotong University;  lecture and appointment as Part-time Professor for 2016 at the University of Science and Technology, Beijing. This autumn, the host of Tom Saaty’s visit was Professor Yong Shi of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a longtime colleague, a friend from the Multi-Criteria Decision Making community and a member of the scientific advisory group which advises the President of China, Xi Jinping, on science and technology. keywords: saaty; university cache: ijahp-453.pdf plain text: ijahp-453.txt item: #168 of 388 id: ijahp-454 author: Petrillo, Antonella title: Italian Translation of "Creative Thinking, Problem Solving & Decision Making" by Thomas Saaty date: 2016-12-21 words: 411 flesch: 31 summary: We are very grateful to Professor Thomas L. Saaty who gave us the opportunity to work with him on this project. The title of the Italian translation published in November 2016 is “Pensiero Creativo, Problem Solving e Decision Making” and was a collaborative effort of Fabio De Felice, Thomas L. Saaty and Antonella Petrillo and published by Aracne Publisher. keywords: problem cache: ijahp-454.pdf plain text: ijahp-454.txt item: #169 of 388 id: ijahp-460 author: Kamath, Giridhar B; Naik, Rakesh; Prasad, Shiva title: A VENDOR'S EVALUATION - USING AHP FOR AN INDIAN STEEL PIPE MANUFACTURING COMPANY date: 2016-12-21 words: 7689 flesch: 57 summary: Vendor selection criteria and methods. To solve the complex problem of vendor evaluation, a tradeoff between these multi-criteria is important. keywords: ahp; company; criteria; evaluation; journal; process; quality; table; vendor; vendor evaluation cache: ijahp-460.pdf plain text: ijahp-460.txt item: #170 of 388 id: ijahp-47 author: Fiala, Petr title: USING AN ANALYTIC NETWORK PROCESS MODEL IN COMBINATORIAL AUCTIONS date: 2009-12-23 words: 4464 flesch: 46 summary: Combinatorial auctions are those auctions in which bidders can place bids on combinations of items, called “packages,” rather than just individual items. The advantage of combinatorial auctions is that the bidder can more fully express his preferences. keywords: auctions; combinatorial; items; model; network; problem; process; winner cache: ijahp-47.pdf plain text: ijahp-47.txt item: #171 of 388 id: ijahp-473 author: Agredo, Shannon; Mu, Enrique; Vella, Catherine title: EVALUATION OF CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT (CRM) SYSTEMS FOR SMALL SERVICE BUSINESSES date: 2017-05-10 words: 8368 flesch: 47 summary: 4.1.2 CRM evaluation model from business perspective The hierarchical decision model for the business perspective is shown in Figure 2. Business perspective The hierarchy and results for the business perspective are shown in Table 5. keywords: business; crm; customer; evaluation; hierarchy; https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v9i1.473; management; model; perspective; process; relationship; staff; system cache: ijahp-473.pdf plain text: ijahp-473.txt item: #172 of 388 id: ijahp-474 author: Mu, Enrique title: IJAHP Editor Valentina Ferretti in the News date: 2017-05-10 words: 305 flesch: 44 summary: Dr. Ferretti is currently a fellow in Decision Science in the Department of Management at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and has also served as visiting professor at Oxford University and the École Centrale Paris.  How to help customers/others make better decisions in tough situations where stakes are high and there are multiple objectives to be achieved. keywords: news cache: ijahp-474.pdf plain text: ijahp-474.txt item: #173 of 388 id: ijahp-475 author: Ishizaka, Alessio title: Visual Management for Decision Analysis date: 2017-05-10 words: 1269 flesch: 45 summary: Ishizaka/Visual management for decision analysis International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 141 Vol. 9 Issue 1 2017 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v9i1.475 VISUAL MANAGEMENT FOR DECISION ANALYSIS Alessio Ishizaka Centre for Operational Research and Logistics, Portsmouth Business School, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth PO1 3DE, United Kingdom Alessio.Ishizaka@port.ac.uk ABSTRACT Visual management has been recently recognized as an excellent way to convey decisions in a clear and convincing way. Essay: Ishizaka/Visual management for decision analysis International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 142 Vol. 9 Issue 1 2017 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v9i1.475 Figure 1. keywords: doi; hierarchy; journal; process cache: ijahp-475.pdf plain text: ijahp-475.txt item: #174 of 388 id: ijahp-477 author: Köne, Aylin Çi?dem; Büke, Tayfun title: ECO-EFFICIENCY ANALYSIS USING ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS APPROACH date: 2017-09-13 words: 5238 flesch: 44 summary: (6) People should be motivated to be aware of environmental issues and rational use of energy to increase environmental efficiency. Methodology for evaluating eco-efficiency values According to the definition of eco-efficiency (EE) in terms of GDPPPP and environmental pressure categories, GLWP, ACP, TFP and PP can be written as (Kuosmanen & Kortelainen, 2005; Kortelainen, 2008; Camarero et al., 2013; Camarero et al., 2014): 𝐸𝐸 = (𝐺𝐷𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃) (𝑊𝐺𝑙𝑊𝑃 )(𝐺𝑙𝑊𝑃) + (𝑊𝐴𝐶𝑃 )(𝐴𝐶𝑃) + (𝑊𝑇𝐹𝑃 )(𝑇𝐹𝑃) + (𝑊𝑃𝑃)(𝑃𝑃) ⁄ (1) Where GLWP, ACP, TFP and PP values are aggregates of the pressures exerted on the environment by the four pressure categories into a single environmental pressure score, whereas WGLWP, WACP, WTFP and WPP are the weights assigned to GLWP, ACP, TFP and PP pressure categories. keywords: analysis; approach; categories; countries; doi; eco; efficiency; efficiency analysis; hierarchy; hierarchy process; journal; pressure; process cache: ijahp-477.pdf plain text: ijahp-477.txt item: #175 of 388 id: ijahp-479 author: Karpak, Birsen title: AHP/ANP is Well Represented in MCDM 2017, Ottawa date: 2017-05-10 words: 639 flesch: 28 summary: Luis Vargas, from the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, presents, How to Write a Contract with the AHP in one of the invited sessions on AHP/ANP Theory and Applications in Supply Chain Management and Industrial Engineering. In this paper, the authors propose an approach based on the AHP that could be considered an extension of principled negotiation. keywords: ahp; anp; mcdm cache: ijahp-479.pdf plain text: ijahp-479.txt item: #176 of 388 id: ijahp-481 author: Bahurmoz, Asma Mohammed; Samrgandi, Nahla title: AN ANP MODEL TO DEVELOP A NATIONAL TRANSFORMATION PLAN date: 2017-05-10 words: 9176 flesch: 45 summary: We contribute to the literature on economic transformation policy in a number of ways. Increase government resources: the broadening of the economic sector by increasing private sector involvement will increase the base for employment and government revenues in fees and taxes/zakat. keywords: anp; benefits; control; criteria; decision; economic; government; https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v9i1.481; international; journal; model; ntp; oil; plan; process; saudi; sector; transformation cache: ijahp-481.pdf plain text: ijahp-481.txt item: #177 of 388 id: ijahp-482 author: Mallick, Bivash; Sarkar, Bijan; Das, Santanu title: A UNIFIED DECISION FRAMEWORK FOR INVENTORY CLASSIFICATION THROUGH GRAPH THEORY date: 2017-09-13 words: 5831 flesch: 48 summary: The present article demonstrates a new approach by integrating Graph Theory (GT) and the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) as a decision analysis tool for multi-criteria inventory classification. A few investigators have worked on multi-criteria inventory classification. keywords: classification; criteria; decision; graph; hierarchy; inventory; inventory classification; journal; process; theory cache: ijahp-482.pdf plain text: ijahp-482.txt item: #178 of 388 id: ijahp-483 author: Mu, Enrique title: What Constitutes a Novel AHP/ANP Study? date: 2017-05-10 words: 395 flesch: 44 summary: For this reason, and in principle, we would expect a contribution on the methodology (theoretical contribution) or its use (applied contribution). Discussions of AHP/ANP theoretical aspects are routinely present in our journal, and the paper “Achieving the desired level of dependency in ANP decision models” by Cooper and Liu, published in this issue, constitutes a good example of this. keywords: anp cache: ijahp-483.pdf plain text: ijahp-483.txt item: #179 of 388 id: ijahp-487 author: Samoei, Daniel K.; Gichoya, David; Odero, Damaris title: AN AHP VARIATION MODELLING APPROACH FOR PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT OF SUPPLIERS OF INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY PRODUCTS date: 2017-09-13 words: 6677 flesch: 39 summary: Introduction The selection of ICT suppliers is done in two phases. The second phase is the pre-qualification of ICT suppliers. keywords: ahp; criteria; ict; ict products; information; performance; products; sub; sub criteria; suppliers; table cache: ijahp-487.pdf plain text: ijahp-487.txt item: #180 of 388 id: ijahp-488 author: Ali, Yousaf; Iftikhar, Naveed; Edwin, Cedric Aimal title: ASSESSMENT OF CAREER SELECTION PROBLEMS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: A MCDM APPROACH date: 2017-09-13 words: 6727 flesch: 46 summary: This research takes into account all of the important factors in career choice, and is particularly useful for guidance counselors of high schools and colleges as it provides a framework for career choice decisions for students. In Pakistan, career selection choice is an important issue because the proportion of illiteracy is higher than in other countries. keywords: approach; career; choice; countries; decision; interest; journal; problems; process; selection; students cache: ijahp-488.pdf plain text: ijahp-488.txt item: #181 of 388 id: ijahp-489 author: Ali, Yousaf; Asghar, Ali; Muhammad, Noor; Salman, Aneel title: SELECTION OF A FIGHTER AIRCRAFT TO IMPROVE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF AIR COMBAT IN THE WAR ON TERROR: PAKISTAN AIR FORCE - A CASE IN POINT date: 2017-09-13 words: 9632 flesch: 46 summary: All of these examples support the reliability of the use of this technique in fighter aircraft selection to improve the effectiveness of air combat in the war on terror. This matrix was necessary in order to deduce a final conclusion pertaining to aircraft alternatives and their rankings. keywords: air; air combat; air forcea; aircraft; case; cost; criteria; effectiveness; fighter; hierarchy; hierarchy process; journal; pakistan air; process; selection; terror; war cache: ijahp-489.pdf plain text: ijahp-489.txt item: #182 of 388 id: ijahp-490 author: Vargas, Luis G title: HOW TO WRITE A CONTRACT WITH THE AHP date: 2017-09-13 words: 3602 flesch: 69 summary: We illustrate the process with a well-known case used routinely in negotiation courses to illustrate that the AHP is particularly well suited for this type of application where most of the dimensions and criteria are intangibles, and the scales used to measure the gains and costs of parties involved in the negotiation do not always exist. Introduction The dictionary definition of “contract” is “a binding agreement between two or more persons or parties” or “a document describing the terms of a contract.” keywords: contract; party cache: ijahp-490.pdf plain text: ijahp-490.txt item: #183 of 388 id: ijahp-492 author: Ekmekci, Esin; Aragones-Beltran, Pablo; Rodriguez, Rafael; Topcu, Ilker title: A DECISION MODEL FOR DETERMINING PUBLIC LOCATIONS SUITABLE FOR AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATOR (AED) DEPLOYMENT: A CASE STUDY IN CITY OF VALENCIA date: 2017-09-13 words: 6057 flesch: 47 summary: We did not find any study using AHP for determining suitable AED locations. Ekmekci, Aragonés-Beltrán, Rodríguez de Sanabria Gil, Topcu /A decision model for determining public locations suitable for AED deployment: A case study in the city of Valencia International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 153 Vol. 9 Issue 2 2017 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v9i2.492 incident for determining suitable AED locations in a basketball arena. keywords: aed; alternatives; city; criteria; decision; deployment; doi; et al; hierarchy; journal; locations; model; process; study; valencia cache: ijahp-492.pdf plain text: ijahp-492.txt item: #184 of 388 id: ijahp-493 author: Kaw, KarMun; Abd Manaf, Latifah title: INTEGRATION OF DELPHI TECHNIQUE AND ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS IN SELECTING THE TYPE OF DAM: A CASE STUDY OF BUNGOH CATCHMENT IN SARAWAK, MALAYSIA date: 2018-02-28 words: 7146 flesch: 53 summary: Flora & fauna: The existence of exotic flora and fauna at a dam site has an influence on the selection of dam type. Results and discussion 3.1 Developing the D-AHP hierarchical structure for dam type selection keywords: bungoh; catchment; comparison; criteria; dam; delphi; hierarchy; hierarchy process; journal; process; study; technique; type cache: ijahp-493.pdf plain text: ijahp-493.txt item: #185 of 388 id: ijahp-496 author: Assad, Arjang title: Obituary: Thomas L. Saaty – Creator of AHP/ANP Decision-Making Methodology date: 2017-09-13 words: 694 flesch: 51 summary: Tom’s impeccable academic credentials included a PhD in mathematics from Yale University, with post-graduate study completed in pure mathematics at The Sorbonne, University of Paris, and an M.A. in mathematics from Yale University, a M.S. in physics from the Catholic University of America, and a B.A. from Columbia Union College. Holding the highest faculty rank of Distinguished University Professor, Tom was an exceptionally gifted researcher and prolific author, and for many years his brilliant mind illuminated the field of Business Analytics and Operations. keywords: business; tom; university cache: ijahp-496.pdf plain text: ijahp-496.txt item: #186 of 388 id: ijahp-498 author: Rokou, Elena title: International Symposium on Analytic Hierarchy Process - ISAHP 2018 date: 2017-09-13 words: 604 flesch: 48 summary: This venue is not only nice, but is strategically located next to shopping areas and public transportation. IJAHP News and Events: International Symposium on Analytic Hierarch Process- ISAHP 2018 International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 300 Vol. 9 Issue 2 2017 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v9i2.498 The upcoming ISAHP conference, ISAHP 2018, will take place in Hong Kong, July 13- 15, 2018 in the Grand Hyatt Hong Kong and will be chaired by Dr Luis Vargas and Dr Jennifer Shang. keywords: anp; areas cache: ijahp-498.pdf plain text: ijahp-498.txt item: #187 of 388 id: ijahp-499 author: Mu, Enrique title: The AHP/ANP Community Mourns the Loss of Thomas L. Saaty date: 2017-09-13 words: 131 flesch: 70 summary: IJAHP: Mu/ AHP/ANP community mourns the loss of Thomas L. Saaty International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 150 Vol. 9 Issue 2 2017 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v9i2.499 The AHP/ANP Community Mourns the Loss of Thomas L. Saaty Sadly, we start this issue by announcing the death of the creator of the AHP/ANP methodology, Dr. Thomas L. Saaty. He was also the founder of this journal aimed at spreading AHP/ANP among decision-makers. keywords: ahp cache: ijahp-499.pdf plain text: ijahp-499.txt item: #188 of 388 id: ijahp-5 author: Begicevic, Nina; Divjak, Blazenka; Hunjak, Tihomir title: COMPARISON BETWEEN AHP AND ANP: CASE STUDY OF STRATEGIC PLANNING OF E-LEARNING IMPLEMENTATION date: 2009-04-18 words: 4403 flesch: 39 summary: Begičević, Divjak & Hunjak: Comparing AHP and ANP in a Case Study of E-learning Implementation International Journal of the Vol. 1 Issue 1 2009 ISSN 1936-6744 Analytic Hierarchy Process 31 COMPARISON BETWEEN AHP AND ANP: CASE STUDY OF STRATEGIC PLANNING OF E-LEARNING IMPLEMENTATION Nina Begičević E-mail: nina.begicevic@foi.hr Blaženka Divjak E-mail: blazenka.divjak@foi.hr Tihomir Hunjak E-mail : tihomir.hunjak@foi.hr University of Zagreb Faculty of Organization and Informatics Pavlinska 2, 42 000 Varaždin ABSTRACT The specific objectives of the paper are: validation of the theoretical model for strategic planning of e-learning implementation by means of factor analysis, presentation of the structure of AHP and ANP models for decision making about e-learning implementation, comparison between developed AHP and ANP models, analysis of the results of group decision making supported by the software TeamEC2000 based on AHP model and the results of decision making supported by the software Super Decisions 1.6.0., which is based on an ANP model. Strategic planning and decision making about e-learning implementation is one of the aims of the Tempus EQIBELT Project (EQIBELT, 2006), coordinated by the University of Zagreb, which provides a useful platform for our research. keywords: anp; decision; implementation; learning; making; model cache: ijahp-5.pdf plain text: ijahp-5.txt item: #189 of 388 id: ijahp-50 author: Tsyganok, Vitaliy V title: ABOUT ONE APPROACH TO AHP/ANP STABILITY MEASUREMENT date: 2011-06-14 words: 3562 flesch: 46 summary: Then, even in the case when during all the following tests of the rest of deviation values existing rank reversals are detected, the deviation value obtained by division-in-half (dichotomy) method will be greater than 5%. Under the obvious assumption, that dependence of stability violation’s probability from deviation value is a monotonously increasing function, we can conclude that, in the first place, stability violations begin to occur under extreme deflections of pair comparisons values (i.e., on the boundaries of deviation range). keywords: deviation; stability; ⎢ ⎢; ⎥ ⎥ cache: ijahp-50.pdf plain text: ijahp-50.txt item: #190 of 388 id: ijahp-500 author: Saaty, Rozann; Karpak, Birsen; Rokou, Elena; Mu, Enrique; Ferretti, Valentina title: Our IJAHP Editorial Team Remembers Tom date: 2017-09-13 words: 1875 flesch: 53 summary: https://www.forevermissed.com/thomas-saaty/#about IJAHP News and Events: Our IJAHP editorial team remembers Tom International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 288 Vol. 9 Issue 2 2017 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v9i2.500 Rozann and Tom Saaty and Professor Wei Gu of the University of Science and Technology in Beijing visiting Peking University Tom sampling an ice at the Beijing Olympic Park IJAHP News and Events: Our IJAHP editorial team remembers Tom International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 289 Vol. 9 Issue 2 2017 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v9i2.500 Tom Saaty lecturing at Central Finance and Economic University in Beijing Tom chilling out during his lecture tour in China IJAHP News and Events: Our IJAHP editorial team remembers Tom International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 290 Vol. 9 Issue 2 2017 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v9i2.500 Tom Saaty in Beijing with some of the academics who were visiting scholars at the University of Pittsburgh in recent years Birsen Remembers Tom My Dear Friend Thomas Saaty I have known Tom since the 1990’s. Elena, Nina, and Tom; Chinese students in second row IJAHP News and Events: Our IJAHP editorial team remembers Tom International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 294 Vol. 9 Issue 2 2017 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v9i2.500 Birsen and Tom, at Tom and Rozann’s home, February 4, 2017, Pittsburgh Elena Rokou Remembers Tom In memoriam… I met Tom back in 2009, and since then I was lucky enough to have him as a mentor and later on I was blessed to be called friend. keywords: ijahp; issue; team; tom cache: ijahp-500.pdf plain text: ijahp-500.txt item: #191 of 388 id: ijahp-501 author: Karpak, Birsen title: Dr. Kahraman is Among the 100 Prominent Turkish scientists contributing to world science date: 2017-09-13 words: 126 flesch: 6 summary: IJAHP News and Events: Dr. Kahraman is among the 100 prominent Turkish scientists contributing to world science International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 299 Vol. 9 Issue 2 2017 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v9i2.501 Dr. Kahraman is Among the 100 Prominent Turkish Scientists Contributing to World Science Dr. Kahraman (the first on the right), who serves on the IJAHP Board iof Editors, was recognized among the 100 most prominent Turkish scientists contributing to world science, and received a plate from the Technical University of Istanbul for his studies on Industrial Engineering and Fuzzy Set theory on September 8, 2017. Cengiz Kahraman is our guest editor for a special issue on AHP Variants Based on Extensions of Ordinary Fuzzy Sets which will be published in December 2018. keywords: kahraman cache: ijahp-501.pdf plain text: ijahp-501.txt item: #192 of 388 id: ijahp-502 author: Karpak, Birsen title: Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM 2017) International Conference Held for a Second Time in Canada date: 2017-09-13 words: 1594 flesch: 37 summary: Gozde Kadioglu, a Master’s student from Istanbul Technical University, Turkey, identified Cafe Nero as the most preferable coffee house followed by Starbucks in her AHP based, A Decision Support Model for the Assessment of Consumer Preferences: A Case Study on Coffee House Companies (G. Kadioglu, I.Topcu). Berna Unver (Figure 3) undergraduate student from Istanbul Technical University, Turkey developed an Integrated Decision Support Model to calculate risk scores of workstations in Assembly Lines (M. Isik, O. Kabak, I. Topcu co-authors). keywords: canada; conference; figure; international; mcdm; time cache: ijahp-502.pdf plain text: ijahp-502.txt item: #193 of 388 id: ijahp-503 author: Özdemir, Mustafa; Sa??r Özdemir, Müjgan title: THE USE OF THE ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS FOR ADMISSION TO AN AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL DEPARTMENT date: 2018-02-28 words: 7360 flesch: 49 summary: Gibney and Shang (2007) propose the AHP method for a dean selection process, which consists of qualitative criteria, such as candor and honesty, trustworthiness, inclusive style of leadership and ability to develop vision. IJAHP Article: Özdemir M., Özdemir MS/ The use of the Analytic Hierarchy Process for admission to an air traffic control department International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 66 Vol. 10 Issue 1 2018 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v10i1.503 Most decision problems involving qualitative criteria have difficulty combining with quantitative criteria. keywords: ahp; air; candidates; control; criteria; hierarchy; hierarchy process; process; traffic; özdemir cache: ijahp-503.pdf plain text: ijahp-503.txt item: #194 of 388 id: ijahp-506 author: Koyun Y?lmaz, Sahika; Ozkir, Vildan title: EXTENDED CONSISTENCY ANALYSIS FOR PAIRWISE COMPARISON METHOD date: 2018-04-11 words: 6034 flesch: 46 summary: The use of indirect PCs assists decision makers by allowing less comparison among pairs of PC matrices with higher dimensions. Consistency analysis In real life decision problems, PC matrices are rarely consistent. keywords: analysis; consistency; judgments; matrices; matrix; method; number; pairwise; pcs cache: ijahp-506.pdf plain text: ijahp-506.txt item: #195 of 388 id: ijahp-508 author: Rahman, Mustafizur; Haldar, Shuvo title: THE APPLICATION OF AHP METHOD FOR SUPPLIER SELECTION OF BANGLADESH’S JUTE INDUSTRY: FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF BOTH PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTORS date: 2018-08-17 words: 6084 flesch: 47 summary: Evolving trends of supplier selection criteria and methods, International Journal of Automotive and Mechanical Engineering (IJAME), 4, 437-454. As a developing country, Bangladesh has many very small and extremely large manufacturing companies where supplier selection is not seriously considered. keywords: ahp; criteria; industry; journal; jute; method; process; selection; supplier; supplier selection cache: ijahp-508.pdf plain text: ijahp-508.txt item: #196 of 388 id: ijahp-511 author: Milkova, Maria; Andreichikova, Olga; Andreichikov, Alexander title: VENTURE CAPITALISTS DECISION MAKING: APPLYING ANALYTIC NETWORK PROCESS TO THE STARTUPS EVALUATION date: 2018-02-28 words: 6671 flesch: 42 summary: Zacharakis and Shepherd (2004) showed that interactions between decision criteria affect VCs decision making, so it is the ANP model that may be applied at startups evaluation process. Thus, the ANP approach is considered suitable for VCs decision making because, (1) the model allows including a mix of quantitative and qualitative (or only quantitative) factors and implies interconnections between decision criteria; (2) decision problem may be examined not only from the Benefits side, but also from the Opportunities and Risks sides; (3) the integrity of the measurement system is verified for consistency because of subjective of human judgments. keywords: anp; capitalists; criteria; decision; doi; evaluation; hierarchy; international; journal; making; network; process; startups; vcs; venture cache: ijahp-511.pdf plain text: ijahp-511.txt item: #197 of 388 id: ijahp-512 author: Merritt, Margaret title: Salmon Plan Wins Environmental Award date: 2017-12-26 words: 556 flesch: 31 summary: Issue priorities reflected a combination of goal and objective priorities and issue significance discussed by the stakeholder group. A stakeholder group, consisting of 15 representatives from local, state and federal government agencies, commercial, sport fishing and personal use fishing groups and environmental organizations participated in a two-day facilitated planning workshop to identify and prioritize specific issues related to plan objectives. keywords: plan; salmon cache: ijahp-512.pdf plain text: ijahp-512.txt item: #198 of 388 id: ijahp-516 author: Latora, Antonio Giuseppe; Compagno, Lucio; Trapani, Natalia title: A DECISION SUPPORT TOOL FOR BUSINESS MODEL ANALYSIS date: 2018-08-17 words: 9786 flesch: 44 summary: Therefore, this transformation requires a rethinking of business models in order to adapt the servitization process and a tool to support a conscious decision about different BM alternatives. According to him, business models are stories that explain how enterprises work and describe, as a system, how the pieces of a business fit together. keywords: ahp; alternatives; business; business model; criteria; customer; decision; doi; framework; hierarchy; journal; model; process; solution; support; tool; value cache: ijahp-516.pdf plain text: ijahp-516.txt item: #199 of 388 id: ijahp-517 author: Mu, Enrique title: AHP CONFLICT RESOLUTION IN ACTION: THE PERUVIAN HOSTAGE CRISIS OF 1996 – 1997 RE-VISITED date: 2017-12-26 words: 3280 flesch: 51 summary: Keywords: conflict resolution; hostage crisis; negotiation; AHP conflict; AHP crisis 1. Therefore, I started collecting all the news from the major publications in Peru and the U.S. that were dealing with the crisis and I used three colors of markers to highlight: possible government objectives (green), possible MRTA objectives (yellow) and possible alternatives or actions (blue). keywords: action; ahp; crisis; government; hostage; mrta cache: ijahp-517.pdf plain text: ijahp-517.txt item: #200 of 388 id: ijahp-519 author: Cooper, Orrin title: THE MAGIC OF THE ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS (AHP) date: 2017-12-26 words: 3661 flesch: 52 summary: To help guide decision makers through the process of structuring a problem Saaty provides ten suggestions (Saaty, 1994, p. 22): (1) Identify the overall goal. Some additional details are provided by Ferretti and Saaty (2014) from an interview with Thomas Saaty. keywords: ahp; decision; hierarchy; hierarchy process; process; saaty cache: ijahp-519.pdf plain text: ijahp-519.txt item: #201 of 388 id: ijahp-521 author: Karpak, Birsen title: REFLECTIONS: MATHEMATICAL PRINCIPLES OF DECISION MAKING date: 2017-12-26 words: 3314 flesch: 54 summary: Experts judgments are elicited about the dominance of a factor over another one via pairwise comparisons using an absolute scale and priorities of the factors are derived. One should not ignore checking how robust the priorities are to changes in expert judgments by performing a sensitivity analysis of the problem. keywords: ahp; anp; decision; judgments; making; saaty cache: ijahp-521.pdf plain text: ijahp-521.txt item: #202 of 388 id: ijahp-522 author: Garuti, Claudio title: REFLECTIONS ON SCALES FROM MEASUREMENTS, NOT MEASUREMENTS FROM SCALES date: 2017-12-26 words: 5947 flesch: 54 summary: Relative value scales do not depend on some unique arbitrary unit applied repetitively over the whole set or in some part of it in a linear way (indeed, these deduced scales rarely are linear). When passing from a physical to relative scale we simple discard the information related to the concept of its dimensional unit and its zero, and this process does not affect the resulting relative values or priorities. keywords: measurements; numbers; objects; process; relative; scale; value cache: ijahp-522.pdf plain text: ijahp-522.txt item: #203 of 388 id: ijahp-523 author: Islam, Rafikul title: WORK ON ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT date: 2017-12-26 words: 5100 flesch: 51 summary: Islam/Work on resolving Israeli-Palestinian conflict International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 336 Vol. 9 Issue 3 2017 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v9i3.523 Table 2 Israeli concession ratings relative to criteria (Israeli benefits from Palestinian concessions) Concessions Control Jerusalem & holy places (0.245) Refugee compensation & settlement (0.251) Increasing security (0.193) Permanent borders (0.000) Controlling & rationing of water (0.162) Human Rights (0.022) For example, among the Palestinian key constituents are Palestinian refugees, Hamas followers, Fatah followers, Palestinians who still live in Israel, and Diaspora Palestinians. keywords: ahp; concessions; conflict; hierarchy; international; israeli; palestinian; process; saaty; work cache: ijahp-523.pdf plain text: ijahp-523.txt item: #204 of 388 id: ijahp-528 author: Yoon, Min-Suk title: THE PROPERTIES OF HUMAN BEING'S DECISION MAKING date: 2017-12-26 words: 1903 flesch: 46 summary: In order to honor Thomas Saaty, the developer of Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)/ Analytic Network Process (ANP), and focus on the paper he wrote just before he died, this essay mentions the rank order problem due to the addition/deletion of irrelevant alternatives over which there were controversies in the AHP. This essay closes by expressing gratitude to Thomas Saaty for his work. keywords: alternatives; decision; rank; saaty cache: ijahp-528.pdf plain text: ijahp-528.txt item: #205 of 388 id: ijahp-53 author: Saaty, Thomas L.; Vargas, Luis G.; Whitaker, Rozann title: Addressing with Brevity Criticisms of the Analytic Hierarchy Process date: 2009-12-23 words: 6865 flesch: 54 summary: He totally ignores the fact that paired comparison judgments are represented by numbers from an absolute scale and that the derived priority scales are relative scales of absolute numbers with no zero and no unit. Saaty, Vargas, Whitaker/Addressing Criticisms of the AHP International Journal of the 122 Vol. 1 Issue 1 2009 ISSN 1936-6744 Analytic Hierarchy Process strictly independent among themselves and from the alternatives. keywords: ahp; alternatives; criteria; criticisms; hierarchy; journal; judgments; process; rank; saaty; vargas cache: ijahp-53.pdf plain text: ijahp-53.txt item: #206 of 388 id: ijahp-531 author: Ferretti, Valentina; Mu, Enrique title: IJAHP team at INFORMS 2017 - Valentina Ferretti wins award date: 2017-12-26 words: 472 flesch: 33 summary: Valentina (left) and Gabriella (right) together with Dr. Greg Hamm, the Co-Chair of the 2017 Decision Analysis Practice Award Committee IJAHP News and Events: Mu/IJAHP team presents at INFORMS 2017 International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 410 Vol. 9 Issue 3 2017 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v9i3.531 Gabriella (left) and Valentina (right) at the INFORMS meeting AHP/ANP topics at INFORMS 2017 On a different note, Dr. Enrique Mu, IJAHP Editor-in-Chief, presented two studies along with co-authors Orrin Cooper and Michael Peasley about ANP best practices and the implications of coherence (this last study led by Dr. Cooper). IJAHP News and Events: Mu/IJAHP team presents at INFORMS 2017 International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 409 Vol. 9 Issue 3 2017 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v9i3.531 IJAHP team presents at INFORMS 2017 Submitted by Valentina Ferretti Enrique Mu IJAHP News Editor, Dr. Valentina Ferretti, wins award During October 2017 at the INFORMS annual meeting, which took place in Houston, our IJAHP News and Events section editor, Dr. Valentina Ferretti, won the 2017 INFORMS Decision Analysis Practice Award. keywords: analysis; decision cache: ijahp-531.pdf plain text: ijahp-531.txt item: #207 of 388 id: ijahp-532 author: Wedley, William title: SAATY 1977: THE BUILDING BLOCKS date: 2017-12-26 words: 4008 flesch: 53 summary: I claim that the introduction of ratio comparisons to pairwise comparison matrices, the derivation of a ratio vector from those matrices, and the provision of a consistency check on those matrices was the creative and novel aspect of Thomas Saaty’s invention. Ratio scales from reciprocal matrices, supported by nine rigorous theorems proving facts such as: - λmax.=n for a consistent matrix - proof of existence of a ratio solution for Aw=λmaxw - uniqueness and existence of the eigenvector solution - proof that the limit of A is the normalized eigenvector times a constant - proof that an order type wi/wj involves all the information in A and its powers 2. keywords: ahp; article; hierarchy; matrix; process; ratio; saaty; scale cache: ijahp-532.pdf plain text: ijahp-532.txt item: #208 of 388 id: ijahp-533 author: Peniwati, Kirti title: GROUP DECISION MAKING: DRAWING OUT AND RECONCILING DIFFERENCES date: 2017-12-26 words: 1861 flesch: 44 summary: Keyword: AHP; group decision making; facilitating decisions 1. The challenge in applying AHP in group decision making is striving for group coherence, making a group think like an individual and dealing with complacency as well. keywords: ahp; decision; differences; group; making cache: ijahp-533.pdf plain text: ijahp-533.txt item: #209 of 388 id: ijahp-536 author: Shang, Jennifer title: REFLECTIONS ON PRIORITIZING DIVERGENT INTANGIBLE HUMANE ACTS date: 2017-12-26 words: 1617 flesch: 40 summary: AHP for prioritizing intangible humane acts: contributions to society To differentiate divergent intangible humane acts, we develop a cluster and pivots method to capture the relationship among numerous activities contributed by people to society. The proposed method helps us effectively derive priorities for alternatives with orders-of-magnitude differences like those in divergent intangible humane acts. keywords: acts; alternatives; process; society cache: ijahp-536.pdf plain text: ijahp-536.txt item: #210 of 388 id: ijahp-538 author: Kahraman, Cengiz; Öztay?i, Ba?ar; Çevik Onar, Sezi; Do?an, Onur title: INTUITIONISTIC FUZZY ORIGINATED TYPE-2 FUZZY AHP date: 2018-09-15 words: 8997 flesch: 56 summary: Keywords: Intuitionistic fuzzy sets; type-2 fuzzy sets; AHP; multi-criteria decision making; damless hydroelectric power 1. The rest of the study is organized as follows: Section 2 explains the preliminaries on intuitionistic and type-2 fuzzy sets. keywords: fuzzy; type-2; 𝑎11 𝐿; 𝑎12 𝑈; 𝑎22 𝐿; 𝑎23 𝑈; 𝑖 𝐿; 𝑖 𝑈 cache: ijahp-538.pdf plain text: ijahp-538.txt item: #211 of 388 id: ijahp-540 author: Kahraman, Cengiz; Otay, Irem title: SOLAR PV POWER PLANT LOCATION SELECTION USING A Z- FUZZY NUMBER BASED AHP date: 2018-12-06 words: 8291 flesch: 55 summary: Kahraman et al. (2014) developed an interval type-2 (IT2) fuzzy AHP method together with a new ranking method for type-2 fuzzy sets and then applied the method to supplier selection. Keywords: Solar PV power plant; location selection; fuzzy AHP; Z-fuzzy number; multi- criteria; uncertainty 1. keywords: ahp; fuzzy; journal; location; method; number; plant; power; selection; weights cache: ijahp-540.pdf plain text: ijahp-540.txt item: #212 of 388 id: ijahp-541 author: Vargas, Luis G title: THE LEGACY OF THE ANALYTIC HIERARCHY/NETWORK PROCESS date: 2017-12-26 words: 2108 flesch: 52 summary: In this paper, I have tried to point out what I consider to be Tom Saaty’s three most important contributions within his Analytic Hierarchy Process: group decision making, conflict resolution and the fundamental equation of pairwise comparisons. Keywords: Analytic Hierarchy Process; group decision making; conflict resolution; fundamental equation of pairwise comparisons 1. keywords: decision; group; hierarchy; process; saaty; vargas cache: ijahp-541.pdf plain text: ijahp-541.txt item: #213 of 388 id: ijahp-545 author: Bolturk, Eda; Kahraman, Cengiz title: INTERVAL-VALUED NEUTROSOPHIC AHP WITH POSSIBILITY DEGREE METHOD date: 2018-12-06 words: 5805 flesch: 59 summary: Interval neutrosophic sets and their application in multicriteria decision-making problems. There are 9 papers related to neutrosophic AHP published in the Scopus Database. keywords: neutrosophic; � 𝑂; � 𝑃; 𝐹𝑎 𝐿; 𝐹𝑎 𝑈; 𝐼𝑎 𝐿; 𝐼𝑎 𝑈; 𝑇𝑎 𝐿; 𝑇𝑎 𝑈; 𝑈 − cache: ijahp-545.pdf plain text: ijahp-545.txt item: #214 of 388 id: ijahp-549 author: Cebi, Selcuk; Ilbahar, Esra title: WAREHOUSE RISK ASSESSMENT USING INTERVAL VALUED INTUITIONISTIC FUZZY AHP date: 2018-09-15 words: 4254 flesch: 53 summary: The originality of the paper is that the proposed approach provides a new perspective on warehouse risk assessment. IJAHP Article: Cebi, Ilbahar/Warehouse risk assessment using interval valued intuitionistic fuzzy AHP International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 243 Vol. 10 Issue 2 2018 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v10i2.549 WAREHOUSE RISK ASSESSMENT USING INTERVAL VALUED INTUITIONISTIC FUZZY AHP Selcuk Cebi ,1 Department of Industrial Engineering, Yildiz Technical University, Besiktas 34349, Istanbul, Turkey scebi@yildiz.edu.tr Esra Ilbahar Department of Industrial Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, Macka 34367, Istanbul, Turkey keywords: assessment; category; hazards; risk; warehouse cache: ijahp-549.pdf plain text: ijahp-549.txt item: #215 of 388 id: ijahp-55 author: Adamus, Wiktor title: WHEN SHOULD POLAND ENTER THE EURO ZONE? date: 2009-12-23 words: 9327 flesch: 53 summary: The debt of Euro Zone countries still exceeds the agreed limit of 60% set by the EU (70.8% average in 2005, 76.1 % in 2006); including the largest countries: Germany, France and Italy. Poland’s economic position relative to other Euro Zone countries and those aspiring to join the European Union. keywords: anp; benefits; control; costs; criteria; decision; entry; euro zone; hierarchy; issue; network; opportunities; poland; process; risks cache: ijahp-55.pdf plain text: ijahp-55.txt item: #216 of 388 id: ijahp-551 author: Ohta, Robison title: SELECTION OF INDUSTRIAL MAINTENANCE STRATEGY: CLASSICAL AHP AND FUZZY AHP APPLICATIONS date: 2018-09-15 words: 3891 flesch: 55 summary: So, the central question of this research is if the selection of maintenance strategies may be solved with multiple criteria decision analysis (MCDA). Figure 5 Multi-criteria selection of maintenance strategy keywords: ahp; criterion; fuzzy; hierarchy; maintenance; process; selection; strategy cache: ijahp-551.pdf plain text: ijahp-551.txt item: #217 of 388 id: ijahp-552 author: Sagir Ozdemir, Mujgan title: SEVEN date: 2017-12-26 words: 2282 flesch: 52 summary: Plot of random inconsistency Thus, in synthesizing near consistent judgment values, changes that are too large can cause dramatic change in our understanding, and values that are too small cause no change in our understanding. Their product cannot be arbitrarily small, and thus w is insensitive to small perturbations of the consistent matrix A. keywords: consistency; number; process; saaty; özdemir cache: ijahp-552.pdf plain text: ijahp-552.txt item: #218 of 388 id: ijahp-554 author: Mu, Enrique title: About this Special Issue date: 2017-12-26 words: 192 flesch: 51 summary: While Tom created AHP, Rozann was decisive in its diffusion worldwide through the Creative Decisions Foundation and her research on AHP validation. IJAHP: Mu/About this special issue International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 309 Vol. 9 Issue 3 2017 ISSN1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v9i3.554 About this Special Issue December 2017 Dear IJAHP Readers: We publish this issue still besieged by the sadness of the passing away of our founder and creator of the AHP methodology, Dr. Thomas Saaty –simply “Tom” for all of us who were lucky to work with him and to enjoy his collegiality and friendship. keywords: issue cache: ijahp-554.pdf plain text: ijahp-554.txt item: #219 of 388 id: ijahp-555 author: Saaty, Rozann W. title: Words from the Special Issue Editor date: 2017-12-26 words: 334 flesch: 63 summary: Saaty/Words from the special issue editor International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 310 Vol. 9 Issue 3 2017 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v9i3.555 WORDS FROM THE SPECIAL ISSUE EDITOR Dear Friends and Colleagues, It has been very gratifying to me to edit this memorial issue of the IJAHP in honor of Tom Saaty, my husband of 53 years. In honor of Tom and his work in developing the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and the Analytic Network Process (ANP), the IJAHP is featuring articles from colleagues who had collaborated with him on research papers, or been visiting scholars at the Katz School of Business Administration at the University of Pittsburgh. keywords: issue cache: ijahp-555.pdf plain text: ijahp-555.txt item: #220 of 388 id: ijahp-556 author: Saaty, Rozann W. title: A Personal View of the Development of the AHP date: 2017-12-26 words: 3153 flesch: 57 summary: Axiomatizing the AHP There are 4 or 5 simple axioms that are fundamental to describing AHP models, and somehow, with his training in classical mathematics, he was able to boil down all the ideas to these few axioms. I had an inside view as Tom and I were married in 1964 before he started developing the AHP. keywords: ahp; comparison; elements; matrix; pairwise; process; tom cache: ijahp-556.pdf plain text: ijahp-556.txt item: #221 of 388 id: ijahp-56 author: Mu, Enrique title: WORDS FROM THE EDITOR date: 2009-12-23 words: 359 flesch: 48 summary: ANP is particularly suitable to study  combinatorial auctions due to the interdependence of sellers, buyers, bundles, and the related auction  criteria and proposes a model to study this type of auctions.   In a nutshell, this issue presents three research articles from three  different countries, and a review of AHP criticism, enough material to keep IJAHP readers busy during  the academic mid‐year recess.    keywords: issue cache: ijahp-56.pdf plain text: ijahp-56.txt item: #222 of 388 id: ijahp-563 author: Topcu, Ilker; Unver, Berna; Isik, Mine; Kabak, Ozgur title: AN AHP BASED PRIORITIZATION MODEL FOR RISK EVALUATION FACTORS IN THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY date: 2018-04-11 words: 4711 flesch: 42 summary: This study aims to identify and prioritize potential risk factors that cause errors and failures by applying the Analytic Hierarchy Process to improve the production quality in a manufacturing process of mixed model assembly lines in the automobile industry. Process driven factors include:  keywords: ahp; assembly; automotive; design; factors; model; prioritization; process; risk cache: ijahp-563.pdf plain text: ijahp-563.txt item: #223 of 388 id: ijahp-565 author: Alitaneh, Saeed title: THEORIES ON COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION SCALES TRIANGLE AND NORMALIZATION OF DIFFERENT VARIABLES: A NEW MODEL IN DEVELOPMENT OF MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS date: 2019-07-31 words: 5584 flesch: 54 summary: Table 5 Pairwise comparison scale for CVST preferences One of the most important advantages of using scale triangles is the lower inconsistency rate in comparison to AHP, which is an indication of its higher precision in the analysis of different variables. Besides, in order to analyze two desirable and balanced equations Tq which is related to the mathematical model of scales triangle, the following steps were followed:  keywords: decision; hierarchy; process; scales; triangle; variables cache: ijahp-565.pdf plain text: ijahp-565.txt item: #224 of 388 id: ijahp-566 author: Cooper, Orrin title: The Analytic Network Process: Astronomy, Icebergs, and Big Box Stores date: 2018-04-11 words: 2758 flesch: 57 summary: Searching for the new discoveries will uncover additional theory that once discovered and visible, will eventually become common knowledge that can increase the quality and scope of ANP applications. I had this experience during my doctoral studies while trying to build and validate ANP models to better understand each part of the Supermatrix. keywords: anp; big; box; process; stores cache: ijahp-566.pdf plain text: ijahp-566.txt item: #225 of 388 id: ijahp-573 author: Garuti, Claudio title: Reflections on Common Misunderstandings When Using AHP and a Response to Criticism of Saaty’s Consistency Index date: 2018-12-06 words: 6785 flesch: 56 summary: But, we know that interval and proportional ratio scales are different scales since they have a different invariant, and thus different properties. Indeed, it is easy to combine different ratio scales into just one. keywords: ahp; compatibility; consistency; criticism; index; matrix; ratio; saaty; scale cache: ijahp-573.pdf plain text: ijahp-573.txt item: #226 of 388 id: ijahp-574 author: Volinchak, Crystal M; Whitehouse, Erin M; Yourstowsky, Matthew R; Woolley, Robert G; Karpak, Birsen title: ANALYZING CORPORATE EXPANSION TO INTERNATIONAL MARKETS: THE CASE OF GERMANY, UNITED KINGDOM, CANADA, MEXICO AND CHINA date: 2018-04-24 words: 7210 flesch: 45 summary: Key words: AHP implementation; prioritizing export markets; case study; Multi-Criteria Analysis 1. ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v10i1.574 After all the initial data was collected for the nine markets and the initial criteria were weighted, we then performed the minimum number of pair-wise comparisons of the alternatives (countries) with respect to the above criteria to derive priorities of the countries in terms of export market. keywords: abc; canada; china; criteria; export; germany; international; kingdom; market; mexico; process; united cache: ijahp-574.pdf plain text: ijahp-574.txt item: #227 of 388 id: ijahp-576 author: Mu, Enrique title: IJAHP is Ten Years Old date: 2018-04-18 words: 261 flesch: 58 summary: IJAHP: Mu/IJAHP is ten years old International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 1 Vol. 10 Issue 1 2018 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v10i1.576 IJAHP is Ten Years Old April 20, 2018 In addition, we will offer a workshop on how to improve ANP reporting to help improve the overall quality of ANP publications. keywords: ijahp cache: ijahp-576.pdf plain text: ijahp-576.txt item: #228 of 388 id: ijahp-579 author: Rokou, Elena title: There is still time to submit papers to ISAHP 2018! date: 2018-04-25 words: 711 flesch: 51 summary: In the afternoon, we will have four workshops that include “How to conduct a negotiation using AHP” by Dr. Luis Vargas, “How to improve your chance of getting your AHP/ANP paper published” by Dr. Enrique Mu, “Group decision making using ANP - the calculations” by Dr. William Adams and “The Art of Structuring AHP and ANP models” by Rozann Whitaker Saaty. We have organized a panel titled Publishing Your Work: Panel of Journal Editors where editors in international scientific journals, namely: Rafikul Islam, International Journal of Business and Systems Research, Annals of Management Science; Enrique Mu, International Journal of AHP ; Valerio Salomon, Annals of Management Science; and Luis Vargas, Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis will discuss the important factors that make an AHP/ANP paper publishable and share their experiences with the audience. keywords: ahp; anp cache: ijahp-579.pdf plain text: ijahp-579.txt item: #229 of 388 id: ijahp-583 author: Naseh, Hassan title: SPACE MISSION DEFINITION BASED ON ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS (AHP) METHOD: Space Mission Definition date: 2018-09-15 words: 4385 flesch: 44 summary: IJAHP Article: Naseh/Space mission definition based on Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) method International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 145 Vol. 10 Issue 2 2018 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v10i2.583 SPACE MISSION DEFINITION BASED ON ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS (AHP) METHOD Hassan Naseh Aerospace Research Institute Ministry of Science, Research and Technology Tehran, Iran, P.O. Box: 14665-834 hnaseh@ari.ac.ir ABSTRACT Generally, missions of remote sensing satellites are divided into three types: monitoring missions, recognition missions and surveillance missions. The first IJAHP Article: Naseh/Space mission definition based on Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) method International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 146 Vol. 10 Issue 2 2018 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v10i2.583 condition is related to the observation of a given area (periodic orbit), and the second one refers to the solar illumination which repeats itself at regular time intervals (Multi-Sun Synchronism). keywords: ahp; figure; hierarchy; hierarchy process; journal; method; mission; process; space; time cache: ijahp-583.pdf plain text: ijahp-583.txt item: #230 of 388 id: ijahp-586 author: Degtiarev, Konstantin Yury; Borisov, Mikhail Yury title: PRIORITIZATION OF ALTERNATIVES BASED ON ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS USING INTERVAL TYPE-2 FUZZY SETS AND PROBABILITY-THEORETICAL INTERVAL COMPARISON date: 2018-12-06 words: 11288 flesch: 52 summary: IJAHP Article: Degtiarev, Borisov/Prioritization of alternatives based on Analytic Hierarchy Process using interval type-2 fuzzy sets and probability-theoretical interval comparison International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 447 Vol. 10 Issue 3 2018 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v10i3.586 PRIORITIZATION OF ALTERNATIVES BASED ON ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS USING INTERVAL TYPE-2 FUZZY SETS AND PROBABILITY-THEORETICAL INTERVAL COMPARISON Konstantin Y. Degtiarev National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) Faculty of Computer Science School of Software Engineering kdegtiarev@hse.ru Mikhail Y. Borisov RWTH Aachen University, Media Informatics Program michaelborisovha@gmail.com mailto:kdegtiarev@hse.ru mailto:michaelborisovha@gmail.com IJAHP Article: Degtiarev, Borisov/Prioritization of alternatives based on Analytic Hierarchy Process using interval type-2 fuzzy sets and probability-theoretical interval comparison International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 448 Vol. 10 Issue 3 2018 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v10i3.586 The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) proposed by Thomas L. Saaty enables decision- makers to prioritize alternatives and make choices in favor of alternatives that correspond to understanding the problem and requirements imposed on its solution (Saaty, 1980). keywords: alternatives; comparison; doi; expert; fahp; hierarchy; hierarchy process; interval; process; s s; sets; type-2 cache: ijahp-586.pdf plain text: ijahp-586.txt item: #231 of 388 id: ijahp-588 author: Azizi, Majid; Mehdikhanloo, Gholamreza title: APPLYING ANP TO ANALYZE THE ROLE OF DESIGN IN THE FURNITURE INDUSTRY date: 2018-09-15 words: 10673 flesch: 25 summary: Furniture production considers interior architecture, arts, crafts, etc. 2) Using engineering design in furniture production (S2). They also explored the new trends of furniture design by researching the role of the concept of appeal in furniture design and discussed anglicizing appeal design's content and characteristics, and combining humanization design concepts with the information age. keywords: anp; azizi; control; criteria; design; furniture; furniture design; furniture industry; furniture production; hierarchy process; international; issn; issue; journal; marketing; mehdikhanloo; process; role; sale; vol cache: ijahp-588.pdf plain text: ijahp-588.txt item: #232 of 388 id: ijahp-59 author: Mu, Enrique title: WORDS-FROM-THE-EDITOR-IN-CHIEF date: 2011-12-27 words: 220 flesch: 45 summary: A  new  section  called  News  and  Events  has  been  added   to  keep  our  IJAHP  community  abreast  of  events  of  interest  and  here  you  will  find  Fabio   DeFelice’s  report  on  the  success  of  the  ISAHP  2011  conference  in  June  in  Sorrento,  Italy,   and  news  about  Jagiellonian  University  of  Krakow,  Poland,  awarding  Thomas  Saaty  an   honorary  doctorate.     Mu/Words from the Editor-in-Chief         International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process Vol. 3 Issue 2 2011 ISSN 1936-6744                                        December  2011   Dear  IJAHP  Reader:   With  this  issue,  IJAHP  celebrates  its  third  year  of  publication. keywords: ijahp cache: ijahp-59.pdf plain text: ijahp-59.txt item: #233 of 388 id: ijahp-590 author: Goepel, Klaus D title: Implementation of an Online Software Tool for the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP-OS) date: 2018-12-06 words: 6251 flesch: 55 summary: Keywords: Multi-criteria decision-making; Analytic Hierarchy Process; AHP software; AHP online system; AHP group decision making 1. Evaluation of AHP software from a management accounting perspective. keywords: ahp; criteria; decision; hierarchy; hierarchy process; implementation; journal; online; process; software; tool cache: ijahp-590.pdf plain text: ijahp-590.txt item: #234 of 388 id: ijahp-592 author: Forbes, Julie E.; Hebb, Abigail M.; Mu, Enrique title: ETHICAL DECISION MAKING IN ACTION: EVALUATING HOSPITAL CARE ATTENDANCE APPROACHES date: 2018-12-06 words: 12310 flesch: 45 summary: Forbes, Hebb, Mu/Ethical decision making in action: Evaluating hospital care attendance approaches International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 345 Vol. 10 Issue 3 2018 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v10i3.592 Appendix B Summary of Care Attendance Alternatives and Literature Source ID Definition Discussion Source from the Literature Review A1- Care attendants (CA) Forbes, Hebb, Mu/Ethical decision making in action: Evaluating hospital care attendance approaches International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 346 Vol. 10 Issue 3 2018 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v10i3.592 Appendix C Benefits Criteria/Sub-Criteria Summary and Literature Source Criteria Sub-Criteria Definition Measurement and Use Source from Literature Review B1 - Customer Value The value convened by the solution, the extent of an environment where high quality care is the overall principle Measured through patient satisfaction scores (nationally through HCAHPS and Press Ganey. keywords: approaches; care; care attendance; costs; criteria; decision; hierarchy; hospital; hospital care; journal; making; patient; process; rounding; safety; table; value cache: ijahp-592.pdf plain text: ijahp-592.txt item: #235 of 388 id: ijahp-593 author: Iida, Yoichi; Koizumi, Ryo title: A FRAMEWORK USING THE ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENTS IN JAPAN TO EVALUATE PROJECTS BASED ON OUTCOMES date: 2018-12-13 words: 6970 flesch: 53 summary: However, project evaluation did not function well because project evaluation needs to be linked to outcomes of the program, and the outcome step was often performed independently. The purpose of this paper is to show how to perform project evaluation to promote women’s active participation in society in Japan. keywords: evaluation; framework; hierarchy; japan; process; program; project; table cache: ijahp-593.pdf plain text: ijahp-593.txt item: #236 of 388 id: ijahp-594 author: Saaty, Rozann W. title: ISAHP2018 Conference in Hong Kong, July 12-15 date: 2018-09-15 words: 3090 flesch: 44 summary: A MULTI-CRITERIA MODEL FOR SELECTING THE MOST SUITABLE CLASSIFIER FOR SUPPORTING ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION IN PEOPLE WITH DEMENTIA, Miguel Angel Ortiz Barrios, Universidad de la Costa, Colombia; Antanas Verikas, Halmstad University; Chris Nugent, Ulster University; Mark Donnelly, Ulster University; Leo Galway, Ulster University; Macarena Espinilla, University of Jaen; Ian Cleland, Ulster University  RISK PERCEPTION OF UNCERTAINTIES IN SUPPLY CHAIN, Yuji Sato, Graduate School of Management, Chukyo University, Japan  USING THE AHP TO ESTABLISH INCLUSIVE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT PRIORITIES FOR INDUSTRY, Ali Lakhani, Griffith University; Heidi Zeeman, Griffith University; Rafikul Islam, International Islamic University Malaysia; David Watling, Griffith University; Courtney J. Wright, Griffith University; Dianne Smith, Curtin University  AN ANP MODEL TO IMPROVE PEDESTRIAN ACCESSIBILITY IN THE CITY CENTER OF CARTAGENA DE INDIAS (COLOMBIA), Monica Garcia- Melon, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain; Hannia Karime González- Urango, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia; Michela Le Pira, University of Catania; Giuseppe Inturri, University of Catania  ASSESSMENT OF HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE (HRQL) IN LOW-BACK PAIN PATIENTS BEFORE AND AFTER VAX-D DISC DECOMPRESSION TREATMENT. The third workshop was presented by Dr. Enrique Mu, Professor at Carlow University and summer program director at the University of Pittsburgh. keywords: ahp; conference; hierarchy; hong; international; july; kong; process; saaty; university cache: ijahp-594.pdf plain text: ijahp-594.txt item: #237 of 388 id: ijahp-595 author: Mimovic, Predrag Miroslav; Budim?evi?, Kristina; Marciki?-Horvat, Aleksandra title: MEASURING PERFORMANCE OF MIDDLE EAST AIRLINES – AHP APPROACH date: 2018-12-06 words: 6379 flesch: 44 summary: On the other hand, amongst the studies related to airline service quality and passenger satisfaction, the following authors can be distinguished: Airline service quality in South Africa and Malaysia – An international customer expectations approach. keywords: airlines; criteria; east; hierarchy; journal; middle; performance; process; quality; service cache: ijahp-595.pdf plain text: ijahp-595.txt item: #238 of 388 id: ijahp-596 author: Mu, Enrique title: IJAHP is now indexed in SCOPUS date: 2018-09-15 words: 310 flesch: 59 summary: For example, rather than waiting to have enough articles to publish a special issue on Fuzzy AHP, we have invited Dr. Cengiz Kahraman, to guest edit our inaugural “Special Topic Articles” section focusing on Fuzzy AHP and are including three articles on this topic. Also, beginning in this issue, we will have a section called “Special Topic Articles.” keywords: articles cache: ijahp-596.pdf plain text: ijahp-596.txt item: #239 of 388 id: ijahp-597 author: Islam, Rafikul; Dali, Norimah Md.; Abdullah, Alias title: PRIORITIZATION OF THE INDICATORS AND SUB-INDICATORS OF MAQASID AL-SHARIAH IN MEASURING LIVEABILITY OF CITIES date: 2018-12-06 words: 9367 flesch: 39 summary: The review also revealed the missing indicators of religion and lineage within the Western indicators, while the Malaysian indicators appear to show inconsistency and lack of detail about religious indicators in the measurement. 1.2 Universal importance of religion for liveability The outstanding finding from the Western liveability indicators reveals that the only thing lacking is that religious indicators are not included when religion is generally and historically important (Albright & Ashbrook, 2001). keywords: ahp; cities; hierarchy; indicators; international; islam; journal; life; liveability; malaysian; maqasid; maqasid al; process; shariah; sub; urban cache: ijahp-597.pdf plain text: ijahp-597.txt item: #240 of 388 id: ijahp-599 author: Kahraman, Cengiz title: A Brief Literature Review for Fuzzy AHP date: 2018-09-15 words: 992 flesch: 60 summary: Kahraman/A brief literature review for fuzzy AHP International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 294 Vol. 10 Issue 2 2018 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v10i2.599 Figure 1 Number of publications on fuzzy AHP by their year Figure 2 Countries publishing fuzzy AHP papers 0 50 100 150 200 250 1988 1993 1998 2003 2008 2013 2018 Publication on fuzzy AHP by years 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 C h in a Ir a n T u rk e y In d ia T a iw a n U n it e d S ta te s M a la y si a U n it e d K in g d o m S o u th K o re a C a n a d a In d o n e si a H o n g K o n g It a ly Ja p a n A u st ra li a F ra n c e S e rb ia M o ro c c o T h a il a n d L it h u a n ia S p a in G e rm a n y D e n m a rk G re e c e P o la n d V ie t N a m B a n g la d e sh Q a ta r S a u d i A ra b ia B ra z il P h il ip p in e s S in g a p o re N e th e rl a n d s U n it e d A ra b E m ir a te s B e lg iu m C o lo m b ia C z e c h R e p u b li c N ig e ri a S o u th A fr ic a T u n is ia Number of documents by their countries IJAHP Essay: Figure 4 presents the classification of fuzzy AHP documents by their subject areas. keywords: ahp cache: ijahp-599.pdf plain text: ijahp-599.txt item: #241 of 388 id: ijahp-60 author: von Solms, Sibs title: VALIDITY OF THE AHP/ANP: COMPARING APPLES AND ORANGES date: 2011-06-14 words: 13556 flesch: 49 summary: The validity of decision outcomes, within this tradition, would then be measured in terms of the agreement of participants (consensus) as to their own (subjective) observation and evaluation of the outcome rather than against any IJAHP ARTICLE: The latter focuses on decision outcomes while the former is based on the hypothesis that for participants in decision-making processes, the procedures used to arrive at decisions are significant determinants of satisfaction separate from the effect of outcomes keywords: action; ahp; anp; apples; criteria; decision; group; hierarchy; hierarchy process; issue; journal; judgment; making; oranges; process; research; saaty; social; solms; validity; von cache: ijahp-60.pdf plain text: ijahp-60.txt item: #242 of 388 id: ijahp-600 author: Kahraman, Cengiz title: Special Topic Articles on Fuzzy AHP date: 2018-09-15 words: 354 flesch: 31 summary: The contribution of the paper is that Fuzzy AHP may be a useful tool to solve the consistency problems in classical AHP applications. I hope this section will provide a useful resource of ideas, techniques, and methods for research on fuzzy AHP. keywords: ahp; fuzzy cache: ijahp-600.pdf plain text: ijahp-600.txt item: #243 of 388 id: ijahp-601 author: Gonzalez, Francisco; Pradenas, Lorena title: MULTI-CRITERIA ANALYSIS TO IMPROVE THE SERVICE IN GAS STATIONS date: 2018-12-06 words: 9657 flesch: 57 summary: Then, the vectors of the local weights are multiplied by the vector of weights of the criteria in order to obtain the vector of global weights of the sub-criteria, the vectors of weights of the alternatives for the vector of weights of the corresponding sub-criterion and the vectors of weights of the alternatives for the corresponding vector of weights of the sub-criterion in order to obtain the normalized local vectors of the alternatives according to each criterion (local NVA). In addition, multi-criteria decision methods are very versatile. keywords: alternatives; analysis; criteria; criterion; factors; gas; global; multi; process; set; stations; sub; swot; weights cache: ijahp-601.pdf plain text: ijahp-601.txt item: #244 of 388 id: ijahp-602 author: Dinc Yalcin, Gulcin; Kamisli Ozturk, Zehra title: DETERMINING THE AREA SIZES OF EACH PRODUCT CATEGORY IN A DEPARTMENT STORE USING MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING METHODOLOGIES date: 2020-04-01 words: 8057 flesch: 53 summary: Keywords: department store; space allocation; multi-criteria decision making; Analytical Network Process; Analytical Hierarchy Process; product category; layout 1. Many studies have been conducted from different perspectives about department stores in the literature. keywords: area; category; criteria; customers; decision; department; department store; journal; making; process; product; store; − − cache: ijahp-602.pdf plain text: ijahp-602.txt item: #245 of 388 id: ijahp-605 author: Kumar, Divesh title: BUYER-SUPPLIER RELATIONSHIP SELECTION FOR A SUSTAINABLE SUPPLY CHAIN: A CASE OF THE INDIAN AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY date: 2019-07-31 words: 13554 flesch: 43 summary: The literature has used many keywords for supply chain relationships, like collaboration, coordination, integration, and cooperation. The channel literature first discussed supply chain relationships that vary from arm's length to vertical integration (Golicic et al., 2003; Contractor & Lorange 1988). keywords: automobile; benefits; buyer; case; chain management; change; criteria; doi; et al; hierarchy; industry; international; journal; kumar; management; process; relationship; relationship selection; supplier relationship; supply; supply chain; sustainability cache: ijahp-605.pdf plain text: ijahp-605.txt item: #246 of 388 id: ijahp-606 author: Karmaker, Chitra Lekha; Halder, Pobitra; Ahmed, S.M. Tazim title: CUSTOMER DRIVEN QUALITY IMPROVEMENT OF A SPECIFIC PRODUCT THROUGH AHP AND ENTROPY BASED QFD: A CASE STUDY date: 2019-12-10 words: 8532 flesch: 46 summary: Quality function deployment (QFD) is an important customer-driven quality management tool that helps identify customer requirements and translate them into proper technical measures. The paper shows how customer requirements can be identified and applied to prioritize the design requirements for improving the quality of a blender. keywords: ahp; case; customer; customer requirements; design; entropy; importance; improvement; journal; process; product; qfd; quality; requirements; study cache: ijahp-606.pdf plain text: ijahp-606.txt item: #247 of 388 id: ijahp-608 author: Bahurmoz, Asma Mohammed title: MEASURING CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY PERFORMANCE: A COMPREHENSIVE AHP BASED INDEX date: 2019-04-24 words: 7833 flesch: 33 summary: Managerial implications of using AHP based CSR index 1. 3. Emergence of CSR index As previously discussed, there is a growing recognition by businesses that CSR is, and should be, an integral part of their strategic vision. keywords: ahp; bahurmoz; companies; corporate; criteria; csr; csr index; hierarchy; index; international; issue; journal; performance; priorities; process; responsibility; sector cache: ijahp-608.pdf plain text: ijahp-608.txt item: #248 of 388 id: ijahp-61 author: Pecchia, Leandro; Bath, Peter A.; Pendleton, Neil; Bracale, Marcelo title: WEB-BASED SYSTEM FOR ASSESSING RISK FACTORS FOR FALLS IN COMMUNITY-DWELLING ELDERLY PEOPLE USING THE ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS date: 2010-12-31 words: 8613 flesch: 51 summary: WEB-BASED SYSTEM FOR ASSESSING RISK FACTORS FOR FALLS IN COMMUNITY-DWELLING ELDERLY PEOPLE USING THE ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS IJAHP ARTICLE: Pecchia, Bath, Pendleton, Bracale/Web-based System for Assessing Risk Factors for Falls in Elderly People International Journal of the 135 Vol. 2, Issue 2, 2010 Analytic Hierarchy Process ISSN 1936-6744 WEB-BASED SYSTEM FOR ASSESSING RISK FACTORS FOR FALLS IN COMMUNITY-DWELLING ELDERLY PEOPLE USING THE ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS Leandro Pecchia∗ Department of Biomedical, Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering, University Federico II of Naples Naples, Italy E-mail: leandro.pecchia@unina.it Peter A. Bath Health Informatics Research Group and Centre for Health Information Management Research (CHIMR), Department of Information Studies University of Sheffield Sheffield, UK E-mail: p.a.bath@sheffield.ac.uk Neil Pendleton School of Translational Medicine University of Manchester Manchester, UK E-mail: neil.pendleton@manchester.ac.uk Marcello Bracale Department of Biomedical, Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering, University Federico II of Naples Napoli, Italy E-mail: bracale@unina.it ABSTRACT Falls occur frequently among older people and represent the most common cause of injury-related morbidity and mortality in later life. keywords: factors; falls; general; hierarchy; importance; journal; people; process; respondents; risk; risk factors; system; web cache: ijahp-61.pdf plain text: ijahp-61.txt item: #249 of 388 id: ijahp-610 author: Karasan, Ali title: A NOVEL HESITANT INTUITIONISTIC FUZZY LINGUISTIC AHP METHOD AND ITS APPLICATION TO PRIORITIZATION OF INVESTMENT ALTERNATIVES date: 2019-04-24 words: 6154 flesch: 61 summary: Comparative analyses with intuitionistic fuzzy AHP and hesitant fuzzy AHP methods are conducted in order to validate the proposed method. In this study, hesitant intuitionistic fuzzy linguistic sets (HIFLSs) are used to extend the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). keywords: ahp; ei ei; fuzzy; linguistic; method; sets cache: ijahp-610.pdf plain text: ijahp-610.txt item: #250 of 388 id: ijahp-611 author: Milkova, Maria; Andreichikova, Olga; Andreichikov, Alexander title: AT THE JUNCTION OF MATHEMATICS AND PSYCHOLOGY: COGNITIVE ORIENTATION OF THE AHP/ANP AND NEW PERSPECTIVES OF STRUCTURING COMPLEXITY date: 2019-03-31 words: 7265 flesch: 46 summary: Keywords: cognitive decision making; AHP; ANP; heuristics; heuristic decision making; cognitive psychology; experience age 1 In Brugha (2000), two groups of 10 4 Nudging – a concept that proposes indirect suggestions as ways to influence the behavior and decision making of groups or individuals. keywords: ahp; anp; complexity; decision; doi; heuristics; hierarchy; journal; making; mathematics; new; process; psychology cache: ijahp-611.pdf plain text: ijahp-611.txt item: #251 of 388 id: ijahp-616 author: Mimovic, Predrag Miroslav; Krstic, Ana; Savic, Jovana title: SERBIA JOINING THE EUROPEAN UNION: AN ANP MODEL FOR FORECASTING THE ACCESSING DATE date: 2019-04-24 words: 8335 flesch: 38 summary: 3.2 Problem description and the construction of ANP model Mimović, Krstić, Savic/Serbia joining the European Union: An AHP model for forecasting the accessing date International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 11 Vol. 11 Issue 1 2019 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v11i1.616 Figure 1 ANP model for forecasting the entry of Serbia into the EU. keywords: anp; cluster; criteria; date; european; european union; factors; forecasting; hierarchy; model; network; network process; process; serbia cache: ijahp-616.pdf plain text: ijahp-616.txt item: #252 of 388 id: ijahp-617 author: Pereira, Felipe George Gomes; Botter, Rui Carlos; Robles, Leo Tadeau title: PORT TERMINAL IN THE NORTHERN REGION OF BRAZIL: DECISION ABOUT PUBLIC PORT OR PRIVATE USE TERMINAL date: 2019-07-31 words: 7653 flesch: 43 summary: This question was not associated with the AHP method, whose objective was to identify the most relevant criteria in the choice of investment in port terminals; however, it was done to verify these experts’ preferences to reflect the current trend for private ports in the region. The study pointed to the investment priority the mode Private Use Terminals, which is confirmed by the country’s recent investment in port terminals which has been effective. keywords: ahp; botter; brazil; brazilian; criteria; decision; hierarchy; issue; journal; pereira; port; port terminal; process; public; region; robles; terminal; use cache: ijahp-617.pdf plain text: ijahp-617.txt item: #253 of 388 id: ijahp-618 author: Noshad, Mohammad; Asgharipour, Sahar title: APPLICATION OF ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS (AHP) METHOD TO OPTIMZE THE CHOICE OF A GLUTEN-FREE COOKIE FORMULA FORTIFIED WITH BANANA PEEL POWDER date: 2019-12-10 words: 4866 flesch: 52 summary: Keywords: AHP; gluten- free cookie; banana peel powder 1. Therefore, in this study the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method was used to optimize the best formula for a gluten-free cookie containing banana peel powder. keywords: banana; banana peel; content; cookie; doi; formula; gluten; hierarchy; method; peel; peel powder; powder; samples cache: ijahp-618.pdf plain text: ijahp-618.txt item: #254 of 388 id: ijahp-620 author: Ganguly, Anirban; Kumar, Chitresh title: EVALUATING SUPPLY CHAIN RESILIENCY STRATEGIES IN THE INDIAN PHARMACEUTICAL SECTOR: A FUZZY ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS (F-AHP) APPROACH date: 2019-07-31 words: 12907 flesch: 42 summary: As observed from the extant literature, substantial academic and practitioner-based research is available on identification and discussion of supply chain resiliency strategies. Using Fuzzy AHP to prioritize supply chain resiliency strategies The current study applies the following steps as a part of the F-AHP analysis which are adapted and modified from the study conducted by Badri & Abdulla (2004) and Ayhan (2013). keywords: ahp; approach; chain resiliency; chains; doi; fuzzy; ganguly; hierarchy; hierarchy process; indian; international; journal; management; pharmaceutical; process; research; resilience; resiliency strategies; sector; selection; strategies; study; supply chain cache: ijahp-620.pdf plain text: ijahp-620.txt item: #255 of 388 id: ijahp-621 author: Singh, Lakhwinder Pal; Singh, Satnam title: STRATEGIC ENHANCEMENT OF WORKPLACE SAFETY IN SMALL SCALE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES USING AHP APPROACH: Identification of safety parameters using AHP date: 2019-07-31 words: 5382 flesch: 51 summary: Keywords: Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP); small scale manufacturing industry (SSMI); workplace safety; safety factors 1. IJAHP Article: Pal Singh, Singh/Strategic enhancement of workplace safety in small scale manufacturing industries using AHP approach International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 269 Vol. 11 Issue 2 2019 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v11i2.621 STRATEGIC ENHANCEMENT OF WORKPLACE SAFETY IN SMALL SCALE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES USING AHP APPROACH Lakhwinder Pal Singh Associate Professor Department of Industrial and Production Engineering Dr B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology singhl@nitj.ac.in Satnam Singh PhD candidate Department of Industrial and Production Engineering Dr. B.R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar, and Punjab, India Assistant Professor Lovely Professional University Phagwara, Punjab, India. keywords: ahp; factors; hierarchy; industries; journal; manufacturing; process; safety; scale; singh; sub; workplace cache: ijahp-621.pdf plain text: ijahp-621.txt item: #256 of 388 id: ijahp-624 author: Ferretti, Valentina title: Highlights of the INFORMS 2018 meeting date: 2018-12-06 words: 613 flesch: 31 summary: Among these sessions, the AHP/ANP community shared the latest developments of the techniques across different application domains. The joint session MCDM/ Practice on the theory and application of the ANP chaired by Orrin Cooper featured the following talks: “Coherency and Reducing Comparisons in the ANP” by Orrin Cooper; “The Added Value of a Team-based Model in Preventive Healthcare Services” by Gabriela Sava, Luis Vargas, Jerrold May, Jennifer Shang, and James Dolan; “Analogical Evaluation of the Urban Function Combination Mode of the Integrated Transportation Hub Based on AHP Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation Method” by Siyu Tao, Feng Tao, Xinmei Chen, Anjun Li, Lisha Wang. keywords: informs; meeting; session cache: ijahp-624.pdf plain text: ijahp-624.txt item: #257 of 388 id: ijahp-625 author: Mu, Enrique title: Our News Editor in the News date: 2018-12-06 words: 161 flesch: 32 summary: ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v10i3.625 Our News Editor in the News Dr. Valentina Ferretti We are pleased to inform you that our news editor, Dr. Valentina Ferretti, has been appointed as Associate Professor in Project Appraisal at the Politecnico of Milano, Italy. IJAHP News and Events: Our news editor in the news International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 504 Vol. 10 Issue 3 2018 keywords: news cache: ijahp-625.pdf plain text: ijahp-625.txt item: #258 of 388 id: ijahp-626 author: Gawlik, Remigiusz title: ENHANCING THE WORK-LIFE BALANCE THROUGH AHP MODELING OF EARLY CAREER DECISION-MAKING date: 2019-07-31 words: 5513 flesch: 43 summary: Workplace and family support and work–life balance: implications for individual psychological availability and energy at work. The method consists of three steps: (i) formulating the main goal of the decision-making process; (ii) building a hierarchy of decision criteria, sub-criteria and their indicators; (iii) identifying decision alternatives (Saaty, 1996). keywords: ahp; balance; career; criteria; decision; gawlik; hierarchy; journal; life; making; process; research; work cache: ijahp-626.pdf plain text: ijahp-626.txt item: #259 of 388 id: ijahp-627 author: Topcu, Ilker title: MCDM in Turkey a Second Time date: 2018-12-10 words: 583 flesch: 54 summary: Invited sessions on special topics/interests and Contributed Sessions (16 parallel sessions)  The AHP/ANP community will be well represented at the conference with one plenary by Vargas on AHP/ANP, a tutorial on the subject as well as proposed invited sessions for AHP/ANP and applications. keywords: conference; mcdm; turkey cache: ijahp-627.pdf plain text: ijahp-627.txt item: #260 of 388 id: ijahp-628 author: Kahraman, Cengiz title: Special Topic Articles on Fuzzy AHP Part-2 date: 2018-12-10 words: 403 flesch: 39 summary: An interval type-2 membership functions based fuzzy AHP is presented. The first paper, Solar PV Power Plant Location Selection Using a Z-Fuzzy Number Based AHP by Irem Otay and Cengiz Kahraman is on the selection of a location for a solar energy PV plant using a four-level hierarchy. keywords: ahp; method cache: ijahp-628.pdf plain text: ijahp-628.txt item: #261 of 388 id: ijahp-629 author: Mu, Enrique title: IJAHP in 2018 date: 2018-12-10 words: 416 flesch: 48 summary: The essay section discusses the implementation of an online software tool for AHP analysis by Klaus Goepel which will certainly be helpful for scholars and practitioners, as well as Claudio Garuti’s reflections on AHP topics that, although familiar, are still worthy of discussion. This year has been marked by several important changes in our journal and the AHP/ANP community at large. keywords: ahp; ijahp cache: ijahp-629.pdf plain text: ijahp-629.txt item: #262 of 388 id: ijahp-630 author: de Castro-Pardo, Monica; de la Fuente-Cabrero, Concepcion; Laguna-Sanchez, Pilar; Perez-Rodriguez, Fernando title: COMBINING AHP AND GOAL PROGRAMMING IN THE CONTEXT OF THE ASSESSMENT OF E-LEARNING date: 2019-12-10 words: 5126 flesch: 49 summary: ∑ (𝑛𝑡 (2) + 𝑝𝑡 (2) )𝑝𝑡 (1) s.t. 𝑤𝑖𝑗 − 𝑚𝑖𝑗 + 𝑛𝑙 (1) − 𝑝𝑙 (1) = 0, l=1, 2,…, n(n-1), (2) 𝑤𝑖𝑗 𝑤𝑗𝑖 + 𝑛𝑠 (2) − 𝑝𝑠 (2) =1, 𝑠 = 1,2, … , 𝑛(𝑛−1) 2 , (3) 𝑤𝑖𝑗 𝑤𝑗𝑘 − 𝑤𝑖𝑘 + 𝑛𝑡 (3) − 𝑝𝑡 (3) =0, t=1, 2,…., n(n-1)(n-2), (4) 0.11≤ 𝑤𝑖𝑗 ≤ 9 ∀ 𝑖, 𝑗. (5) Where: 𝑛𝑙 (1) and 𝑝𝑙 (1) are the negative and positive deviations of the goal, respectively, for constraints that ensure the condition of similarity in the position l, 𝑛𝑠 (2) and 𝑝𝑠 (2) are the negative and positive deviations of the goal, respectively, for constraints that ensure the condition of reciprocity in the position s, and 𝑛𝑡 (3) and 𝑝𝑡 (3) are the negative and positive deviations of the goal, respectively, for constraints that ensure the condition of consistency in the position t. 𝑚𝑖𝑗 are the components of the matrix M for each pair of criteria. − 𝑝18 (3) =0, 𝑤42𝑤21 − 𝑤41 + 𝑛19 (3) keywords: ahp; goal; inconsistencies; learning; process; programming; results cache: ijahp-630.pdf plain text: ijahp-630.txt item: #263 of 388 id: ijahp-631 author: Topcu, Ilker title: CDF Sponsoring Grants for the 2019 MCDM Conference in Istanbul date: 2018-12-19 words: 509 flesch: 40 summary: CDF sponsoring grants for the 2019 MCDM conference in Istanbul International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 507 Vol. 10 Issue 3 2018 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v10i3.631 CDF Sponsoring Grants for the 2019 MCDM Conference in Istanbul The 25th International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making will take place at Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey from June 16th to June 21st, 2019 (www.MCDM2019.org). Final step, the Board of CDF in collaboration with senior representatives from the MCDM organization will review the submissions and by April 8, 2019 notify the applicants if they have received a grant. keywords: cdf; conference cache: ijahp-631.pdf plain text: ijahp-631.txt item: #264 of 388 id: ijahp-632 author: Patel, Gokulananda title: INTEGRATIONS AND APPLICATIONS OF ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS WITH DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS – A LITERATURE REVIEW date: 2019-07-31 words: 15618 flesch: 43 summary: On the basis of a defined search criterion, related articles appearing in international journals from 2000 to 2018 were collected and analyzed so that the following five questions could be answered: (1) Which approach out of the various integrated-DEAHP approaches was most prevalent and got the utmost attention?, (2) Which of the areas of application were most often studied and found their application with integrated DEAHP approaches?, (3) Which of the specific problems were most frequently applied to integrated DEAHP approaches?, (4) What are the publication trends for the papers considering the integrated DEAHP approaches?, and (5) Which jourmals of international standards published what number of journal articles and among them which has the highest number of articles on the approach of integrated DEAHP? This combination of different approaches with DEAHP (also referred to as integrated DEAHP approaches) is able to make a decision with more accurately than the stand-alone DEAHP. keywords: analysis; applications; approach; article; data; deahp; decision; doi; efficiency; envelopment; et al; evaluation; fuzzy; hierarchy; hierarchy process; integrated; integrations; international; issue; journal; literature; performance; process; research; review; selection cache: ijahp-632.pdf plain text: ijahp-632.txt item: #265 of 388 id: ijahp-633 author: Marcarelli, Gabriella; Mancini, Paola title: HIGH SCHOOL CHOICE: HOW DO PARENTS MAKE THEIR CHOICE? date: 2019-04-24 words: 5290 flesch: 45 summary: Keywords: School choice; school performance; academic performance; AHP; Eduscopio 1. The sensitivity analysis, according to both school characteristics and school performances, highlights that at first, classic lyceums are the best alternative if the weight assigned to school performance is greater than 0.2; in other words, if the weight of school characteristics is lower than 0.8 (see Figure 3). keywords: choice; high; journal; parents; performance; school; school choice; score; students cache: ijahp-633.pdf plain text: ijahp-633.txt item: #266 of 388 id: ijahp-635 author: Dixon-Ogbechi, Bolajoko Nkemdinim; Adebayo, Anthony Kayode title: APPLICATION OF THE AHP MODEL TO DETERMINE PREFAB HOUSING ADOPTION FACTORS FOR DEVELOPERS IN LAGOS STATE date: 2020-08-28 words: 7322 flesch: 44 summary: The literature review enabled us to identify the most popular evaluative criteria for the adoption of the prefab system as well as to identify the alternatives (prefab housing systems that are marketable to consumers in Lagos State). -7 -8 -9 >=- 9.5 FPCT GQC FPCT USPL FPCT LSM FPCT RSL FPCT MEI FPCT CE GQC USPL GQC LSM GQC RSL GQC MEI GQC CE USPL LSM USPL RSL USPL MEI USPL CE LSM RSL LSM MEI LSM CE RSL MEI RSL CE MEI CE IJAHP Article: Dixon-Ogbechi, Adebayo /Application of the AHP model to determine prefab housing adoption factors for developers in Lagos State International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 315 Vol. 12 Issue 2 2020 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v12i2.635 B. PREFAB ADOPTION FACTORS FOR DEVELOPERS CRITERIA WITH RESPECT WRT Faster Project Completion Time (FPCT) Kindly tick (√) your rating of the importance of Faster Project Completion Time (FPCT) in the selection of prefab housing system in Lagos State by comparing the prefab housing system listed on the left side against the ones on the right side where 9.5 is the highest and -9.5 is the lowest as indicated on the explanation box given earlier. keywords: adebayo; adoption factors; ahp; developers; housing; housing adoption; housing system; lagos state; ogbechi; prefab; system cache: ijahp-635.pdf plain text: ijahp-635.txt item: #267 of 388 id: ijahp-636 author: Ali, Yousaf; Haroon, Muhammad; Abdullah, Muhammad; Khan, Amin Ullah title: THE BEST MANUFACTURING PROCEDURE FOR THE COMMERCIAL PRODUCTION OF UREA, USING AHP BASED TOPSIS date: 2019-12-10 words: 6563 flesch: 48 summary: In the combined or hybrid system, prills from the prilling tower are sometimes introduced to the granulation loop to produce granules with some specific properties, but often the granulation and prilling processes work independently. Therefore, it can be concluded that the prilling process has been shown to be more reliable for the market demand, and the government should focus on sustainable urea production processes to avoid risk to the general population and environment. keywords: ahp; ali; decision; granulation; hierarchy; ideal; nitrogen; prilling; process; production; topsis; urea cache: ijahp-636.pdf plain text: ijahp-636.txt item: #268 of 388 id: ijahp-637 author: V, Shanujas; Radha Ramanan, Thiyagarajan title: IDENTIFICATION AND RANKING OF COMPETENCIES THAT POSITIVELY INFLUENCE THE CUSTOMER SERVICES: A CASE STUDY date: 2020-04-01 words: 10662 flesch: 40 summary: Modern banking organizations are more concerned with the customer service domain and have initiated separate wings and programs to improve employee competencies and the quality of customer service, and therefore increase customer satisfaction and profit. There have been widespread studies on the identification of employee competencies in different work contexts (Jena & Sahoo, 2014; Lakshminarayanan et al., 2016; Trivellas et al., 2015 etc.). keywords: ahp; competencies; competency; customer; customer service; employees; hierarchy; identification; influence; journal; management; matrix; method; pairwise; process; ranking; service; study cache: ijahp-637.pdf plain text: ijahp-637.txt item: #269 of 388 id: ijahp-638 author: Go, Daryn Joy; Promentilla, Michael Angelo; Aviso, Kathleen; Yu, Krista Danielle title: AN AHP-BASED COMPOSITE INDEX FOR SECTOR PRIORITIZATION date: 2019-04-24 words: 11175 flesch: 43 summary: Composite sector prioritization index 3.1 Normalization of the five sector significance measures The priority given to these goals highlights the importance of economic sectors because of their contribution to inclusive growth, development, and economic activity. keywords: e ly; e m; e r; economy; h e; ig h; ig n; ly h; n tl; r y; s ig; sector; y h cache: ijahp-638.pdf plain text: ijahp-638.txt item: #270 of 388 id: ijahp-640 author: Pacheco, Bruna Cristine Scarduelli; Piratelli, Claudio Luis; Silva, Ethel Cristina Chiari; Belderrain, Mischel Carmen Neyra title: THE DESIGN OF A PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM FOR A FRUIT PROCESSING EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURER date: 2019-12-10 words: 9590 flesch: 43 summary: 2.1 Frameworks and views of Performance Measurement Systems Choong (2013) surveyed the literature on performance measurement systems (published from January 1990 to November 2012) and found 479 articles on ABI/Inform ProQuest, Emerald Full Text, Science@Direct and EBSCO. Understanding the features of performance measurement system: a literature review. keywords: company; criteria; decision; design; doi; equipment; hierarchy; index; journal; management; performance; performance criteria; performance measurement; piratelli; pms; process; production; step; system cache: ijahp-640.pdf plain text: ijahp-640.txt item: #271 of 388 id: ijahp-642 author: Ali, Yousaf; Arif, Shayan; Munir, Fahad; Azeem, Muhammad Bilal; Ullah Khan, Amin title: CAN INDIA-PAKISTAN SPORTS PROMOTE PEACE? A MCDM APPROACH date: 2019-12-10 words: 8313 flesch: 59 summary: A MCDM approach International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 61 Vol. 12 Issue 1 2020 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v12i1.642 countries, and how the selected factors are influenced by the type of cricket matches played between India and Pakistan. A MCDM APPROACH Yousaf Ali Ph.D Assistant Professor Department of Management Science Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences & Technology Topi, Swabi, KPK, Pakistan; yousafkhan@giki.edu.pk Shayan Arif Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology u2015419@giki.edu.pk Fahad Munir Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology u2015104@giki.edu.pk Muhammad Bilal Azeem Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology u2015353@giki.edu.pk Amin Ullah Khan Graduate Research Assistant Department of Management Science Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences & Technology gem1847@giki.edu.pk ABSTRACT Sports is an effective vehicle that is being adopted by almost every country to improve ties with other countries. keywords: ali; approach; countries; cricket; criteria; hierarchy; india; international; khan; matches; mcdm; pakistan; peace; process; sports cache: ijahp-642.pdf plain text: ijahp-642.txt item: #272 of 388 id: ijahp-647 author: Topcu, Y. Ilker title: Countdown to MCDM 2019 date: 2019-04-24 words: 507 flesch: 46 summary: You are all welcome to the 25th International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM 2019) that will take place at Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey from June 16 th to June 21 st , 2019. Sincerely, Y. Ilker Topcu Professor, Istanbul Technical University MCDM 2019 Conference Chair keywords: mcdm; university cache: ijahp-647.pdf plain text: ijahp-647.txt item: #273 of 388 id: ijahp-649 author: Vargas, Luis G; Zoffer, H. J. title: Applying AHP in Conflict Resolution date: 2019-04-24 words: 1726 flesch: 46 summary: The current failure to resolve conflicts worldwide highlights the need for a different approach to conflict resolution. The foundations of IC4CR are that the Center’s approach to conflict resolution is based on the Analytic Hierarchy Process. keywords: ahp; conflict; resolution; trade cache: ijahp-649.pdf plain text: ijahp-649.txt item: #274 of 388 id: ijahp-654 author: Zoffer, Jerry title: Pitt Creates New IC4CR Center to Utilize AHP in Resolving International Conflicts date: 2019-04-25 words: 414 flesch: 35 summary: ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v11i1.654 Pitt Creates New IC4CR Center to Utilize AHP in Resolving International Conflicts Jerry Zoffer Professor and Dean Emeritus Katz Graduate School of Business University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA, USA zoffer@katz.pitt.edu A proposal by University of Pittsburgh professors Luis Vargas and Jerry Zoffer to create a new International Center for Conflict Resolution (IC4CR) was funded by University of Pittsburgh Chancellor Patrick Gallagher and will be housed in the Katz Graduate School of Business. keywords: ic4cr; pittsburgh cache: ijahp-654.pdf plain text: ijahp-654.txt item: #275 of 388 id: ijahp-655 author: Mu, Enrique title: Beginning our 11th year! date: 2019-04-25 words: 210 flesch: 61 summary: Dr. Cengiz Kahraman was guest editor for our special topic section on Fuzzy AHP in the previous issue, but due to logistic considerations this article could not be published then. It is published now for your enjoyment, and constitutes our last article on Fuzzy AHP as a special topic. keywords: issue cache: ijahp-655.pdf plain text: ijahp-655.txt item: #276 of 388 id: ijahp-66 author: Mu, Enrique title: WORDS FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF date: 2010-07-15 words: 178 flesch: 43 summary: Mu/Words from the Editor-in-Chief of the IJAHP International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process Vol. 2, Issue 1, 2010 ISSN 1936-6744       Words from the Editor‐in‐Chief  I am pleased to introduce our first special issue about the status of AHP/ANP applications in Brazil.  Enrique Mu, PhD  Editor‐in‐Chief  IJAHP      Rob Typewritten Text http://dx.doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v2i1.66 Rob Typewritten Text Rob Typewritten Text Rob Typewritten Text Rob Typewritten Text keywords: issue cache: ijahp-66.pdf plain text: ijahp-66.txt item: #277 of 388 id: ijahp-667 author: Allah Pitchay, Anwar; Asmy, Mohamed; Mohd Thas Thaker, Hassanudin Bin; Amin, Md Fouad Bin title: DETERMINING THE RELATIVE IMPORTANCE OF QUALITY FACTORS FOR CROWDFUNDING PLATFORMS date: 2019-12-10 words: 7764 flesch: 47 summary: The aim of this study is to use the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to identify and rank the relative weights of the quality factors of crowdfunding platforms. Keywords: crowdfunding platform; quality factors; prioritization; Analytic Hierarchy Process 1. keywords: crowdfunding; crowdfunding platform; customer; design; factors; international; journal; mohd; mohd thas; platforms; process; quality; quality factors; service; thaker; thas; thas thaker cache: ijahp-667.pdf plain text: ijahp-667.txt item: #278 of 388 id: ijahp-674 author: Ohoitimur, Johanis; Krejci, James; Raco, Jozef Richard; Raton, Yulius; Taroreh, Frankie title: ANALYSIS OF THE PASTORAL STRATEGIC PLANNING PRIORITIES OF THE VICARIATE EPISCOPAL OF TONSEA OF THE DIOCESE OF MANADO date: 2019-12-11 words: 7487 flesch: 47 summary: Ohoitimur, Krejci, Raco, Raton, Taroreh/ Pastoral strategic planning priorities for the church: case study of the Vicariate Episcopal of Tonsea of the Diocese of Manado International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 415 Vol. 11 Issue 3 2019 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v11i3.674 PASTORAL STRATEGIC PLANNING PRIORITIES FOR THE CHURCH: CASE STUDY OF THE VICARIATE EPISCOPAL OF TONSEA OF THE DIOCESE OF MANADO Johanis Ohoitimur Philosophy Department, Sekolah Tinggi Filsafat Seminari Pineleng, Indonesia Pineleng, Manado 95662, Indonesia James V. Krejci Lewis University, Illinois USA - College of Business One University Parkway Romeoville, IL 60446 Jozef Richard Raco* Management Department , Universitas Katolik De La Salle Manado, Indonesia Kombos, Kairagi I, Manado 95253, Indonesia *Corresponding Author Yulius Christian Raton Industrial Engineering Department, Universitas Katolik De La Salle Manado, Indonesia Kombos, Kairagi I, Manado 95253, Indonesia Frankie J. H., Taroreh Accounting Department, Universitas Katolik De La Salle Manado, Indonesia Kombos, Kairagi I, Manado 95253, Indonesia ABSTRACT Strategic planning is a commonly used tool in profit-oriented institutions. Ohoitimur, Krejci, Raco, Raton, Taroreh/ Pastoral strategic planning priorities for the church: case study of the Vicariate Episcopal of Tonsea of the Diocese of Manado International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 416 Vol. 11 Issue 3 2019 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v11i3.674 1. keywords: church; criteria; diocese; episcopal; hierarchy; manado; planning; priorities; process; study; tonsea; vicariate cache: ijahp-674.pdf plain text: ijahp-674.txt item: #279 of 388 id: ijahp-68 author: Salomon, Valerio title: WORDS FROM SPECIAL ISSUE EDITOR date: 2010-07-15 words: 357 flesch: 49 summary: In the last article, with Leila  Nascimento and Amanda Silva, Prof. Belderrain presents how the ANP was used in a military  decision that gained much attention in the Brazilian media in the year of 2009: the purchase of  jet fighters by the Brazilian Air Force.    Prof. Valério Salomon  Special Issue Editor  IJAHP  Rob Typewritten Text http://dx.doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v2i1.68 This article is followed by an AHP application in Health Care  Management: the selection of an ultrasonic scanning system for a private hospital in the State  of Minas Gerais.  keywords: ahp cache: ijahp-68.pdf plain text: ijahp-68.txt item: #280 of 388 id: ijahp-681 author: Saaty, Rozann W. title: The Creative Decisions Foundation Sponsors AHP/ANP Presentations at 2019MCDM Conference date: 2019-07-31 words: 622 flesch: 35 summary: Enjoying the pool and live music at the awards reception IJAHP News and Events: Saaty/Creative Decisions Foundation Sponsors AHP/ANP Presentations at 2019MCDM International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 298 Vol. 11 Issue 2 2019 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v11i2.681 One of the purposes of Creative Decisions Foundation is to help young researchers get started in the publishing game by helping them get their papers that are focused on AHP published. Enrique Mu, Editor-in-Chief of the IJAHP journal, Milagros Pereya and Mónica García-Melón on the dinner cruise along the Bosphorus The MCDM conference gave many opportunities to AHP participants to meet each other and one of most celebrated events was the dinner cruise along the Bosphorus where breathtaking views of Istanbul could be admired. keywords: decisions; foundation cache: ijahp-681.pdf plain text: ijahp-681.txt item: #281 of 388 id: ijahp-682 author: Moons, Karen; Pintelon, Liliane; Jorissen, Pieterjan; De Ridder, Dirk; Everaerts, Wouter title: IDENTIFICATION OF MULTI-STAKEHOLDER VALUE IN MEDICAL DECISION-MAKING date: 2020-04-01 words: 9630 flesch: 44 summary: The healthcare sector is characterized by complexity, uncertainty and conflicting interests between multiple stakeholders, which makes MCDM a suitable approach to evaluate different quality criteria while taking into account multiple stakeholders’ perspectives (Adunlin, Diaby & Xiao, 2015; Forbes et al., 2018; Lee, Donaldson & Cook, 2003). The AHP is a transparent tool that supports decision- makers by visualizing quality criteria in a hierarchy structure and assigning weights to these criteria (Saaty & Vargas, 2006). keywords: cancer; care; cost; criteria; decision; healthcare; hierarchy; journal; making; medical; patient; quality; stakeholder; treatment; value; weights cache: ijahp-682.pdf plain text: ijahp-682.txt item: #282 of 388 id: ijahp-683 author: Al-Rahbi, Alia Khalfan Hamdoon; Abushammala, Mohammad F.M.; Qazi, Wajeeha A. title: APPLICATION OF THE ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS FOR MANAGEMENT OF SOIL EROSION IN OMAN date: 2020-04-01 words: 4605 flesch: 45 summary: IJAHP Article: Al-Rahbi, Abushammala, Qazi/Application of the Analytic Hierarchy Process for management of soil erosion in Oman International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 104 Vol. 12 Issue 1 2020 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v12i1.683 APPLICATION OF THE ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS FOR MANAGEMENT OF SOIL EROSION IN OMAN Alia Khalfan Hamdoon Al-Rahbi Department of Civil Engineering, Middle East College Muscat, Oman alrahbialia@hotmail.com Mohammad F.M. Abushammala* Department of Civil Engineering, Middle East College Muscat, Oman eng_abushammala@yahoo.com Wajeeha A. Qazi Department of Civil Engineering, Middle East College Muscat, Oman wajiha23@hotmail.com ABSTRACT The sultanate of Oman faces the problem of soil erosion which also disturbs waterways, infrastructure and agriculture. keywords: erosion; hierarchy; hierarchy process; management; method; oman; process; protection; soil; soil erosion cache: ijahp-683.pdf plain text: ijahp-683.txt item: #283 of 388 id: ijahp-689 author: Karpak, Birsen title: Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) 2019 was in Turkey a Second Time date: 2019-08-09 words: 3405 flesch: 34 summary: They were Emel Aktaş (Cranfield University), Umut Asan (Istanbul Technical University), Adiel Teixeira de Almeida (Federal University of Pernambuco), Sarah Ben Amor (University of Ottawa), Matthias Ehrgott (Lancaster University), Gabriele Eichfelder (TU Ilmenau), José Rui Figueira (Technical University of Lisbon), Salvatore Greco (University of Catania), Zahir Irani (University of Bradford), Özgür Kabak (Istanbul Technical University), Birsen Karpak (Youngstown State University), Kathrin Klamroth (Bergische Universität Wuppertal), Murat Köksalan (Middle East Technical University), Banu Lokman (Middle East Technical University), Kaisa Miettinen (University of Jyväskylä), Enrique Mu (Carlow University), Özay Özaydın (Doğuş University), Serpil Sayın (Koç University), Hsu-Shih Shih (Tamkang University), Johannes Siebert (University of Bayreuth), Seyhan Sipahi Nişel (Istanbul University), Theo Stewart (University of Cape Town), İlker Topcu (Istanbul Technical University), Füsun Ülengin (Sabancı University), Jyrki Wallenius (Aalto University), Margaret Wiecek (Clemson University),Constantin Zopounidis (Technical University of Crete). A SECOND TIME The 25 th MCDM meeting was held in Istanbul, Turkey at Istanbul Technical University, June 16 - June 21, 2019. keywords: 2019; conference; criteria; decision; journal; karpak; making; mcdm; process; time; turkey; university cache: ijahp-689.pdf plain text: ijahp-689.txt item: #284 of 388 id: ijahp-69 author: Aguiar, Dimas Campos; De Souza, Helder Jose Celani; Salomon, Valerio title: AN AHP APPLICATION TO EVALUATE SCORING CRITERIA FOR FAILURE MODE AND EFFECT ANALYSIS (FMEA) date: 2010-07-15 words: 4343 flesch: 56 summary: Aguiar, de Souza, Salomon / Evaluate Scoring Criteria for Failure Mode and Effect Analysis International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 3 Vol. 2, Issue 1, 2010 ISSN 1936-6744 AN AHP APPLICATION TO EVALUATE SCORING CRITERIA FOR FAILURE MODE AND EFFECT ANALYSIS (FMEA) Dimas Campos Aguiar Iochpe Maxion Wheels and Chassis Division Cruzeiro, SP, Brazil E-mail: dimastjs@gmail.com Aguiar, de Souza, Salomon / Evaluate Scoring Criteria for Failure Mode and Effect Analysis International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 4 Vol. 2, Issue 1, 2010 ISSN 1936-6744 form and to make the relationship between its columns are not covered in this paper. keywords: analysis; detection; failure; fmea; occurrence; scoring; table cache: ijahp-69.pdf plain text: ijahp-69.txt item: #285 of 388 id: ijahp-690 author: Mu, Enrique title: Beyond the Information Age and into the New Decision Age date: 2019-08-13 words: 440 flesch: 54 summary: Based on this, I propose that the next age should be called the Decision Age, which could be defined as an age in which our current ICT capabilities are used to make effective decisions at all levels. I think the message is that now that we have large amounts of information and easy communication available, the so-called information and communication technology (ICT), the next step is to be able to use this capability for effective decision-making. keywords: age cache: ijahp-690.pdf plain text: ijahp-690.txt item: #286 of 388 id: ijahp-696 author: Kumar, Raman; Singh, Harwinder; Singh, Amrinder title: A FRAMEWORK FOR EVALUATION OF VENDORS IN AUTOMOTIVE SECTOR date: 2020-12-23 words: 6589 flesch: 47 summary: The AHP was applied to evaluate the selection of vendor criteria. Keywords: vendor selection; ranking; multi-criteria decision making; QFD; ANP 1. keywords: anp; criteria; evaluation; framework; industry; international; journal; process; ranking; selection; singh; vendors cache: ijahp-696.pdf plain text: ijahp-696.txt item: #287 of 388 id: ijahp-7 author: Andreichicova, Olga N. title: AN APPLICATION OF THE ANALYTIC NETWORK PROCESS TO RESEARCHING ORAL HEALT date: 2009-04-18 words: 6596 flesch: 56 summary: In turn, the elements of General Health Status: Hormonal status, Age and Level of immune reactivity; influence elements in cluster 3 Status of dental health. The second column of the matrix B testifies that the cluster Oral hygiene influences itself and the third cluster, thus the pairwise comparisons matrix A2 is: 2 2 3 w A2 = 2 1 1/5 0.167 3 5 1 0.833 We can see that the elements of Oral hygiene (cluster 2) influence elements in Status of dental health (cluster 3) more than they influence each other. keywords: cluster; elements; factors; health; health status; influence; status cache: ijahp-7.pdf plain text: ijahp-7.txt item: #288 of 388 id: ijahp-70 author: Montevechi, Jose; Guimaraes, Italo Freire; De Oliveira, Mona Liza Moura; Friend, Jonathan Daniel title: DECISION-MAKING WITH MULTIPLE CRITERIA IN THE SELECTION OF ULTRASONIC SCANNING SYSTEM IN A PRIVATE HOSPITAL IN BRAZIL date: 2010-07-15 words: 6838 flesch: 44 summary: The lack of concrete actions for the medical-hospital equipment incorporation’s control and planning in Brazil, as well as the unawareness of this equipment’s quantity and quality in the health network have led to a series of misrepresentations, such as high concentration of image equipment in closely-located sites, generating high complexity processing demands and high cost that are often unnecessary. The range of medical equipment installed in Brazil presents geographic concentration, with a large percentage of the equipment remaining unused due to lack of maintenance or inadequate staff to operate them, and the quantity of determined image devices per habitant above the average of other developed countries. keywords: brazil; criteria; decision; equipment; evaluation; hierarchy; hospital; image; journal; makers; perform; probe; process; scanning; system cache: ijahp-70.pdf plain text: ijahp-70.txt item: #289 of 388 id: ijahp-701 author: Dehghanimohammadabadi, Mohammad; Kabadayi, Nihan title: A TWO-STAGE AHP MULTI-OBJECTIVE SIMULATION OPTIMIZATION APPROACH IN HEALTHCARE date: 2021-01-21 words: 7529 flesch: 43 summary: Automatic simulation models generation of warehouses with milk runs and pickers. Simulation optimization: methods and applications. keywords: ahp; approach; criteria; dehghanimohammadabadi; healthcare; hierarchy; model; multi; number; objective; optimization; process; simulation; stage; weights cache: ijahp-701.pdf plain text: ijahp-701.txt item: #290 of 388 id: ijahp-702 author: Mantogiannis, Vasileios A.; Katsigiannis, Fotios A. title: ASSESSING REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT ALTERNATIVES: A MULTI-CRITERIA AND MULTI-STAKEHOLDER DECISION AID TOOL date: 2020-04-01 words: 12135 flesch: 43 summary: Wang (2005) presented another model, which analyzed real estate investment decisions and measured investment performance. Therefore, we used the Delphi technique to obtain a high quality of input, and this method also helps structure the problem and identifies the appropriate list of decision criteria. keywords: ahp; alternatives; criteria; decision; decision aid; estate; estate investment; hierarchy; investment; investment alternatives; journal; method; model; multi; process; property; stakeholder; tool cache: ijahp-702.pdf plain text: ijahp-702.txt item: #291 of 388 id: ijahp-709 author: Wilford, Amanda Lyn; Bodin, Lawrence D.; Gordon, Lawrence A. title: USING THE ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS TO ASSESS THE IMPACT OF INTERNAL CONTROL WEAKNESSES ON FIRM PERFORMANCE date: 2020-08-28 words: 11506 flesch: 51 summary: Applying this value to the coefficient indicates that MWICS firms reporting the maximum value will have an ROA that is 7.2% (.876 multiplied by -0.082) lower than the average. There is no difference in the perception of severity about the types of reported MWICS between the different users of financial statements (auditors vs. managers). keywords: accounting; ahp; control; criteria; firm; hierarchy; hierarchy process; ici; impact; internal; journal; mwics; performance; process; weaknesses; weights cache: ijahp-709.pdf plain text: ijahp-709.txt item: #292 of 388 id: ijahp-71 author: Costa, Helder Gomes; Correa, Pedro de Seixas title: CONSTRUCTION OF AN AHP-BASED MODEL TO CATCH CRITERIA WEIGHTS IN POST-OCCUPANCY EVALUATION date: 2010-07-15 words: 5396 flesch: 42 summary: The present work proposes an original variation of POE which makes it able to evaluate criteria degree importance, taking into account the analysis of coherency degree of the arbitrary evaluations. The work of Romero and Ornestein (2003) recommended taking into account criteria reated to the following aspects when doing a POE evaluation: social areas, layout, construction, finishing, electrical, hydraulic and sanitary features and materials, maintenance, sound, thermal and visual comfort, and economic. keywords: ahp; building; construction; criteria; evaluation; features; hierarchy; occupancy; performance; post; quality; unit cache: ijahp-71.pdf plain text: ijahp-71.txt item: #293 of 388 id: ijahp-711 author: Chaudhari, Jayant Suresh; Wasu, Renu; Sarode, Avinash D. title: RANKING DIFFERENT ENABLERS/DRIVERS OF SUSTAINABLE SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT BY USING AHP IN INDIAN MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES date: 2020-08-28 words: 9324 flesch: 46 summary: Sustainable supply chain management practices and dynamic capabilities in the food industry: To identify the critical success factor of sustainable supply chain management practices in the context of oil and gas industries: ISM approach. keywords: ahp; chain management; doi; drivers; enablers; green; hierarchy; indian; industries; international; journal; management; manufacturing; practices; process; sscm; supply chain; sustainability;   cache: ijahp-711.pdf plain text: ijahp-711.txt item: #294 of 388 id: ijahp-712 author: Ibrar, Ibrar; Kim, Suk Kyoung; Lee, Jongsu; Rho, Jae Jeung title: ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS MODEL FOR THE SELECTION OF OPTIMAL INTERNET ACCESS TECHNOLOGIES IN RURAL PAKISTAN date: 2020-08-28 words: 6947 flesch: 42 summary: Conclusion The issues surrounding Internet access technology selection for rural areas are not only technological, but a complex system of other interrelated factors that cut across various aspects of rural areas and their inhabitants. Yasir (2017) stated that in rural Pakistan internet penetration is limited because of many factors such as high cost to the consumers from Internet service providers, cultural hurdles, lack of sustainable infrastructure, and the low literacy rate in the country. keywords: access; ahp; areas; criteria; hierarchy; hierarchy process; internet; model; pakistan; process; selection; technologies; technology cache: ijahp-712.pdf plain text: ijahp-712.txt item: #295 of 388 id: ijahp-72 author: Piratelli, Claudio Luis; Belderrain, Mischel Carmen N. title: SUPPORTING THE DESIGN OF A PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM WITH THE ANALYTIC NETWORK PROCESS date: 2010-07-15 words: 9794 flesch: 56 summary: Final Performance % S1 Final Performance % Final Performance % keywords: belderrain; cluster; course; decision; design; evaluation; hierarchy; indicators; journal; measurement; network; organization; performance; prism; process; stakeholders; system cache: ijahp-72.pdf plain text: ijahp-72.txt item: #296 of 388 id: ijahp-720 author: Goyal, Praveen; Kumar, Divesh; Kumar, Vinod title: APPLICATION OF MULTICRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS (MCDA) IN THE AREA OF SUSTAINABILITY: A LITERATURE REVIEW date: 2020-12-23 words: 8574 flesch: 36 summary: Goyal P., Kumar D., Kumar V./Application of multi-criteria decision analysis in the area of sustainability: a literature review International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 512 Vol. 12 Issue 3 2020 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v12i3.720 APPLICATION OF MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS IN THE AREA OF SUSTAINABILITY: Keywords: Citation analysis; CiteSpace; multi-criteria decision analysis; sustainable development; and sustainability. keywords: area; criteria; decision analysis; doi; environmental; hierarchy; international; journal; kumar; kumar d.; literature; management; mcda; multi; process; research; review; sustainability cache: ijahp-720.pdf plain text: ijahp-720.txt item: #297 of 388 id: ijahp-726 author: Marcarelli, Gabriella; Rossi, Matteo; Ferrarro, Antonella; Lucadamo, Antonio title: AN INVESTMENT CHOICE PROBLEM AND CALENDAR ANOMALIES: A GROUP AHP MODEL FOR INVESTORS date: 2020-08-28 words: 8654 flesch: 50 summary: To define the ranking of investment choices, our model considers the following evaluation criteria: return of the stock market, performance of government bonds, and the presence of calendar effects (CE). The aim of our study is to propose a model that allows simultaneous evaluation of the impact of the previously mentioned factors on investment choice. keywords: ahp; anomalies; calendar; choice; doi; effect; france; investment; investment choice; investors; journal; market; model; problem; spain; stock cache: ijahp-726.pdf plain text: ijahp-726.txt item: #298 of 388 id: ijahp-727 author: Mu, Enrique title: Central European Conference of Information and Intelligent Systems (CECIIS) Turns 30! date: 2019-12-17 words: 485 flesch: 47 summary: International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 440 Vol. 11 Issue 3 2019 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v11i3.727 Dr. Violeta Vidaček-Hainš, FOI faculty, Dr. Enrique Mu, official Friend of FOI and CECIIS student participants CECIIS online international student presenters During the different social events, participants continued to add other reasons why these conferences are important such as the opportunity to share a glass of wine with an esteemed colleague or simply to give each other a warm friendly embrace, all things that cannot currently be done via Skype. Dr. Enrique Mu, IJAHP Editor-in-Chief and a member of the organizing committee, participated as a panelist for the students’ presentations. keywords: ceciis cache: ijahp-727.pdf plain text: ijahp-727.txt item: #299 of 388 id: ijahp-728 author: Mu, Enrique title: Nina Begicevic, IJAHP Editorial Board Member, Elected as University of Zagreb’s New Dean of the Faculty of Organization and Informatics date: 2019-12-17 words: 506 flesch: 32 summary: Issue 3 2019 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v11i3.728 Nina Begičević, IJAHP Editorial Board Member, Elected as University of Zagreb’s New Dean of the Faculty of Organization and Informatics With a total of 58 votes (83%), Associate Professor Nina Begičević Ređep, PhD has been elected the new Dean of the Faculty of Organization and Informatics (FOI) and has a mandate to serve in the position for two years. Nina Begičević Ređep was born in 1980, in Varaždin. keywords: faculty; organization cache: ijahp-728.pdf plain text: ijahp-728.txt item: #300 of 388 id: ijahp-73 author: Nascimento, Leila Paula Alves da Silva; Da Silva, Amanda; Belderrain, Mischel Carmen Neyra title: PURCHASE OF A NEW AIR SUPERIORITY FIGHTER USING THE ANALYTIC NETWORK HIERARCHY PROCESS date: 2010-07-15 words: 3991 flesch: 48 summary: To illustrate an application of ANP method, fictitious data regarding the F-X2 Project were adopted. Elements priorities for the aircraft selection example Clusters Elements Normalized By Cluster Limiting Weaponry Intelligent bombs 0.034823 0.32662 Cannons 0.034831 0.32670 Missiles 0.036961 0.34668 Offset Commercial 0.005849 0.09409 Industrial 0.013860 0.22295 Technological 0.042457 0.68296 Costs Aircraft purchasing cost 0.101740 0.53766 Maintenance cost 0.054339 0.28716 Operation cost 0.033147 0.17517 Performance Load capacity 0.034256 0.23557 Maneuver performance 0.012385 0.08517 Climbing performance 0.015361 0.10563 Take-off performance 0.010039 0.06904 Landing performance 0.009913 0.06817 Range ratio 0.029416 0.20229 Operational altitude 0.011115 0.07643 Maximum speed 0.022933 0.15770 Logistics Maintenance and support equipment 0.014596 0.19169 Spare parts 0.010063 0.13216 Technical publications 0.013230 0.17375 Contracted logistic support 0.014957 keywords: anp; cluster; decision; elements; fighter; hierarchy; process cache: ijahp-73.pdf plain text: ijahp-73.txt item: #301 of 388 id: ijahp-730 author: Mu, Enrique title: The AHP/ANP Conference Community date: 2019-12-16 words: 339 flesch: 44 summary: In case you are wondering what the connection is between these conferences and the IJAHP, it is worth mentioning that many of our most distinguished IJAHP authors and board members actively participate in these conferences. For this reason, this journal has always made a point of publicizing and reporting on conferences related to our discipline. keywords: ijahp cache: ijahp-730.pdf plain text: ijahp-730.txt item: #302 of 388 id: ijahp-732 author: Divjak, Blazenka title: Reflections on the Importance of Academic Conferences: CECIIS 2019 Opening remarks date: 2019-12-16 words: 531 flesch: 55 summary: So to conclude, the role of conferences today may be to gather wisdom and put aside foolish ideas, but most of all it is to socialize and enjoy each other. Divjak/Reflections on the importance of academic conferences International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 435 Vol. 11 Issue 3 2019 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v11i3.732 REFLECTIONS ON THE IMPORTANCE OF ACADEMIC CONFERENCES Note from the Editor – The following opening remarks were given by Dr. Blazenka Divjak, founder of the Central European Conference of Information and Intelligent Systems (CECIIS), University of Zagreb’s Faculty of Informatics Professor, and current Minister of Science and Education of Croatia. keywords: conference; divjak cache: ijahp-732.pdf plain text: ijahp-732.txt item: #303 of 388 id: ijahp-743 author: Lohan, Amanish; Ganguly, Anirban; Kumar, Chitresh title: “WHAT’S FOREIGN IS BETTER”: A FUZZY AHP ANALYSIS TO EVALUATE FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE FOREIGN PRODUCT CHOICE AMONG INDIAN CONSUMERS date: 2020-12-23 words: 12215 flesch: 51 summary: Using Fuzzy AHP to prioritize foreign product preference factors The current study adapted and modified studies conducted by Badri and Abdulla (2004) and Ayhan (2013) and developed a five-step process to conduct the F-AHP analysis. Conclusions and further research The current study used the F-AHP to analyze the identified factors that influence foreign brand product purchase among Indian consumers across five product categories. keywords: ahp; analysis; brand; consumers; country; doi; factors; foreign; hierarchy; image; indian; influence; international; journal; origin; preference; process; product; quality cache: ijahp-743.pdf plain text: ijahp-743.txt item: #304 of 388 id: ijahp-75 author: Azizi, Majid title: A DECISION MAKING MODEL REGARDING WOOD PANEL SELECTION date: 2012-12-11 words: 5111 flesch: 50 summary: Keywords: AHP, wood panel, intensity, attribute, priority 1. Estimation of wood demand for wood panels in Iran by the year of 2012. keywords: criteria; density; hierarchy; intensity; panel; percentage; table; wood cache: ijahp-75.pdf plain text: ijahp-75.txt item: #305 of 388 id: ijahp-753 author: Peniwati, Kirti title: Striving for Agility in a VUCA Environment: The Analytic Hierarchy/Network Process date: 2020-04-09 words: 2512 flesch: 44 summary: Agile transformation appears to be the right response that is needed from business organizations for this new environment. It is a mindset that requires agility, not blindly copying approaches that work in other organizations. keywords: ahp; anp; environment; group; hierarchy; process cache: ijahp-753.pdf plain text: ijahp-753.txt item: #306 of 388 id: ijahp-754 author: Topcu, Ilker; Ozaydin, Ozay title: MCDM 2019 Special Topics Articles date: 2020-04-09 words: 271 flesch: 43 summary: Topcu, Ozaydin/MCDM2019 special topics articles International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 2 Vol. 12 Issue 1 2020 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v12i1.754 MCDM2019 Special Topics Articles After the 25th International Conference on Multiple-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM2019) in Istanbul, one of the most successful MCDM conferences to date, authors that presented their works there were invited to submit these studies to the special topics section of the International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process. keywords: topics cache: ijahp-754.pdf plain text: ijahp-754.txt item: #307 of 388 id: ijahp-755 author: Mu, Enrique title: Decision Making in the Time of Corona Virus date: 2020-04-17 words: 1046 flesch: 49 summary: Dr. Pecchia is an expert in medical devices, artificial intelligence and decision making. To respond now, during this pandemic, we are assisting manufacturers in the UK Midlands and in Italy, who are converting their production lines to start manufacturing PPEs (e.g. masks, visor) and medical devices (ventilators). keywords: need; pecchia; time cache: ijahp-755.pdf plain text: ijahp-755.txt item: #308 of 388 id: ijahp-76 author: Jayant, Arvind; Gupta, Pardeep; Garg, Suresh Kumar title: AN APPLICATION OF ANALYTIC NETWORK PROCESS TO EVALUATE SUPPLY CHAIN LOGISTICS STRATEGIES date: 2011-12-27 words: 7673 flesch: 46 summary: Table 27 Desirability index calculation for logistics systems alternatives 7. The ANP model has been used in the exercise to structure this complexity by evaluating logistics strategic strategies by utilizing a systemic multi-attribute analytical technique. keywords: attributes; chain; commodity; journal; logistics; lsi; matrix; network; network process; process; relationship; strategies; supply cache: ijahp-76.pdf plain text: ijahp-76.txt item: #309 of 388 id: ijahp-760 author: Mu, Enrique title: Welcome to our first issue in 2020! date: 2020-04-09 words: 357 flesch: 62 summary: Dear IJAHP Readers: Welcome to our first issue in 2020! IJAHP expresses its solidarity with all of the people whose lives are being affected by the pandemic and express our wish for all to emerge from this crisis wiser and with a renewed faith in humanity. keywords: issue cache: ijahp-760.pdf plain text: ijahp-760.txt item: #310 of 388 id: ijahp-761 author: Bellahcene, Mohammed; Benamar, Fatima-Zohra; Mekidiche, Mohammed title: AHP AND WAFGP HYBRID MODEL FOR INFORMATION SYSTEM PROJECT SELECTION date: 2020-08-28 words: 9721 flesch: 50 summary: In the end, we can say that the integrated AHP-WAFGP model gives better support for IS project selection decisions by choosing those projects that better satisfy the different decision goals and makes better use of the available resources. The results show that the integrated AHP-WAFGP approach seems to be easier and simpler than the previous methods (AHP, ZOGP, and combined AHP-ZOGP) and gives better support for IS project selection decisions by choosing those projects that better satisfy the different decision goals and also makes better use of the available resources. keywords: ahp; criteria; decision; doi; hierarchy; information; information system; international; journal; model; process; project; project selection; system; system project; wafgp cache: ijahp-761.pdf plain text: ijahp-761.txt item: #311 of 388 id: ijahp-766 author: Jassemi-Zargani, Rahim; Kamps, Caelum title: DECISION MAKING IN DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS AN APPLICATION OF MACHINE LEARNING TO THE ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS date: 2021-05-19 words: 7086 flesch: 52 summary: Given a large sample of target input cases, the target threat value calculation converges to the probability distribution shown in Figure 10. Figure 10 Probability distributions of target threat value The threat value output approximately takes the form of a normal distribution with a mean of 0.43 and standard deviation of 0.14. The available systems dictate the rate and amount of target information that accumulates. keywords: application; cues; decision; hierarchy process; information; learning; machine; making; threat; value cache: ijahp-766.pdf plain text: ijahp-766.txt item: #312 of 388 id: ijahp-77 author: Ricciardo, Giuseppe title: AN EVALUATION OF METHODS TO MAKE TRANSITIVE THE MULTIPLE COMPARISONS MATRICES date: 2011-06-14 words: 5833 flesch: 58 summary: Of particular interest among these various lines of development are those involving the more systematic use of statistical tools (Haines, 1998; Carriere and Finster, 1992; Basak, 2002) and those that combine AHP with various methods of multicriterion analysis (Lootsma, 1997; Lootsma, Ramanathan and Schuijt, 1998; Guitouni and Martel, 1998). This feature has prompted the development of various methods to determine the weights by minimizing the divergence, opportunely defined, between the values cij and the theoretical ones wi/wj. keywords: = =; comparisons; evaluation; index; journal; matrices; matrix; methods; weights cache: ijahp-77.pdf plain text: ijahp-77.txt item: #313 of 388 id: ijahp-770 author: Tarique, Kazi Md.; Islam, Rafikul; Mohamed, Mustafa Omar; Razak, Dzuljastri Abdul; Hamdan, Hamdino bin title: CONSTRUCTING A MAQASID (OBJECTIVE) BASED PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT INDEX FOR ISLAMIC BANKS date: 2020-08-28 words: 10376 flesch: 51 summary: Impact of the perception of Islamic bank management on Islamic bank objective to the social and economic performance using Maqāṣid al-Sharī ‘ah approach. Tarique, Islam, Mohamed, Razak, Hamdan/Constructing a Maqasid (objective) based performance measurement index for Islamic banks International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 328 Vol. 12 Issue 2 2020 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v12i2.770 CONSTRUCTING A MAQASID (OBJECTIVE) BASED PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT INDEX FOR ISLAMIC BANKS Kazi Md. keywords: banking; banks; dimensions; hierarchy; index; international; islamic; journal; maqasid; maqasid al; measurement; mohamed; objective; performance; process; protection; razak; shari’ah; sub cache: ijahp-770.pdf plain text: ijahp-770.txt item: #314 of 388 id: ijahp-771 author: Singh, Lakhwinder Pal; Suthar, Harish title: DEVELOPMENT OF RISK ASSESSMENT METHOD FOR SMALL SIZED HOSPITALS USING AHP: A CASE IN NORTHERN INDIA: An Application of AHP in Hospitals for Risk Assessment Among Employees Attending Patients date: 2021-09-03 words: 8975 flesch: 55 summary: The results of the current study reveal that the method was reliable and valid for risk assessment of patient handling. mailto:singhl@nitj.ac.in mailto:harishs.ip.16@nitj.ac.in IJAHP Article: Singh, Suthar/Development of a risk assessment method for small-sized hospitals using AHP: a case in northern India International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 307 Vol. 13 Issue 2 2021 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v13i2.771 exposed to different risk factors including lifting and moving patients, pushing and pulling heavy equipment, working at forced postures or standing for long periods without taking adequate rest periods (National Research Council, 2001). keywords: ahp; assessment; factor; group; handling; hospitals; india; journal; level; method; patient; points; process; reliability; risk; score cache: ijahp-771.pdf plain text: ijahp-771.txt item: #315 of 388 id: ijahp-778 author: Karpak, Birsen title: M. Gabriela Sava Finalist of the 2020 MCDM Junior Researcher Best Paper Award date: 2020-08-28 words: 442 flesch: 26 summary: IJAHP News and Events: Karpak/M. Gabriela Sava finalist of the 2020 MCDM junior researcher best paper award International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 364 Vol. 12 Issue 2 2020 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v12i2.778 M. Gabriela Sava Finalist for the 2020 MCDM Junior Researcher Best Paper Award Birsen Karpak Associate Editor, IJAHP Distinguished Professor, Youngstown State University In April 2020, M. Gabriela Sava received the great news that her paper “An analysis of the sensitivity and stability of patients’ preferences can lead to more appropriate medical decisions,” published in Annals of Operations Research was selected as a finalist for the 2020 MCDM Junior Researcher Best Paper Award. keywords: award; university cache: ijahp-778.pdf plain text: ijahp-778.txt item: #316 of 388 id: ijahp-779 author: Saaty, Rozann W. title: Best Practices in Analytic Network Studies: Interview with Enrique Mu and Orrin Cooper date: 2020-08-28 words: 2708 flesch: 52 summary: In 2016, when I was discussing a study that would require a literature review of ANP papers published the previous year with Orrin Cooper and Michael Peasley, the idea came up about taking advantage of this literature review to check how ANP studies were reported. These findings further confirmed the need for some tentative standards that would constitute best practices to report ANP studies. keywords: anp; enrique; group; practices cache: ijahp-779.pdf plain text: ijahp-779.txt item: #317 of 388 id: ijahp-78 author: Ali, Syed Mithun title: AN ANALYTICAL HIERARCHICAL PROCESS FOR PRIORITISING THE SAFETY MANAGEMENT ELEMENTS FOR A MANUFACTURING ORGANIZATION IN BANGLADESH date: 2012-12-10 words: 4345 flesch: 37 summary: mailto:mithun@ipe.buet.ac.bd IJAHP Article: MM Allama, MS Parvez, SM Ali, A Azeem/ Using the Analytical Hierarchical Process to prioritise safety management elements in manufacturing in Bangladesh International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 105 Vol. 4 Issue 2 2012 ISSN 1936-6744 Keywords: Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP), Safety management elements (SMS), Health and safety, Decision making, Manufacturing organization. 5.2 Evaluation of safety management elements A pair-wise comparison matrix for each criterion, with each matrix containing the pair- wise comparisons of the performance of safety management elements on each criterion is developed. keywords: bangladesh; elements; health; hierarchy; management; management elements; manufacturing; process; safety; safety management cache: ijahp-78.pdf plain text: ijahp-78.txt item: #318 of 388 id: ijahp-8 author: Mu, Enrique title: Words from the Editor-in-Chief date: 2009-04-18 words: 288 flesch: 46 summary: So I will use this opportunity to address this  issue.     INFORMS, in its recent October 2008 impact award to Thomas L. Saaty, the creator of the AHP, stated  that “The AHP has revolutionized how we resolve complex decision problems.”  Although AHP/ANP is  currently applied in diverse areas, and articles and papers on this subject are available in journals from  multiple disciplines; AHP/ANP researchers, practitioners, and students lack a publication we can call our  own. keywords: ahp cache: ijahp-8.pdf plain text: ijahp-8.txt item: #319 of 388 id: ijahp-801 author: Lipovetsky, Stan title: PRIORITY VECTOR ESTIMATION: CONSISTENCY, COMPATIBILITY, PRECISION date: 2020-12-23 words: 5463 flesch: 54 summary: − − − − − − − − − − − − − − 𝑤𝑛 /𝑤1 𝑤𝑛 /𝑤2 ... − − − − − − − − − − − − − − 𝑤𝑛 /(𝑤𝑛 + 𝑤1) 𝑤𝑛 /(𝑤𝑛 + 𝑤2) ... keywords: compatibility; consistency; equation; estimation; matrix; priority; vector cache: ijahp-801.pdf plain text: ijahp-801.txt item: #320 of 388 id: ijahp-802 author: Garuti, Claudio title: HOW TO OBTAIN A GLOBAL REFERENCE THRESHOLD IN AHP/ANP date: 2021-05-19 words: 9757 flesch: 54 summary: On the other hand, if the user does not want the order of the alternatives to be modified, or if there is a large set of alternatives to be evaluated (over 10 alternatives), or the user is interested in measuring the performance of the alternative regarding a reference or threshold value (for example, a maximum risk value or a minimum benefit value), then the AM mode should be selected since it provides the opportunity to easily determine if the alternative’s performance is good or bad (green or red). As the preferred differential or sensitivity to change decreases, the rate of change value for (M/L) becomes less attractive, and although moving from one rate of change to a higher rate of change decreases the expert’s stress associated with the risk (greater comfort zone), it also indicates that we are not in the level of EP of maximum exchange or the maximum stress level for the expert in a risks model, which may create a sub-efficient EP. keywords: ahp; anp; change; hierarchy; level; model; process; rate; scale; value; 𝑀 𝐿 cache: ijahp-802.pdf plain text: ijahp-802.txt item: #321 of 388 id: ijahp-805 author: Mu, Enrique title: What if Classroom Instruction Becomes a Thing of the Past? date: 2020-08-28 words: 1145 flesch: 51 summary: There are currently many companies such as Coursera, Udemy, and consortia of higher education institutions such as edX that offer MOOC courses. In the U.S., the growth in the number of higher education students enrolled exclusively in online courses has been increasing (4% annually for undergraduate students and 7.4% for postgraduate students from 2017-2018). keywords: courses; education; students cache: ijahp-805.pdf plain text: ijahp-805.txt item: #322 of 388 id: ijahp-807 author: Mu, Enrique title: Virtual ISAHP2020 will take place on December 3-6, 2020 date: 2020-08-28 words: 193 flesch: 36 summary: IJAHP News and Events: Mu/Virtual ISAHP2020 will take place on December 3-6, 2020 International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 365 Vol. 12 Issue 2 2020 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v12i2.807 Virtual ISAHP2020 will take place on December 3-6, 2020 Completed research, research in progress and research proposals are all invited for the symposium. keywords: december cache: ijahp-807.pdf plain text: ijahp-807.txt item: #323 of 388 id: ijahp-808 author: Mu, Enrique title: Making Decisions in the New Normal date: 2021-07-30 words: 304 flesch: 57 summary: IJAHP: Mu/Making decisions in the new normal International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 175 Vol. 12 Issue 2 2020 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v12i2.808 Making Decisions in the New Normal Dear IJAHP Reader: Welcome to our second IJAHP issue in 2020. The AHP/ANP methodology is particularly suitable for the challenge of incorporating health issues within a structured decision-making framework, so we should expect more applications in this area during the following months. keywords: making cache: ijahp-808.pdf plain text: ijahp-808.txt item: #324 of 388 id: ijahp-81 author: Kravchenko, Tatiana; Seredenko, Natalia title: DECISION-MAKING WITH MODELING OF PROBLEM SITUATIONS USING THE ANALYTIC NETWORK HIERARCHY PROCESS date: 2011-06-14 words: 5615 flesch: 47 summary: Kravchenko, Seredenko/Decision-Making With Modeling of Prob- lem Situations Using the Analytic Network Hierarchy Process International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 30 Vol. 3 Issue 1 2011 ISSN 1936-6744 We assume that the main goal and levels of conditions, which are located under the main goal, are composed in the Control Hierarchy of Conditions. Conditions of decision-making Examples of the sub-conditions networks under the control hierarchy of conditions : - Sub-conditions composed of their realizations IJAHP ARTICLE: keywords: conditions; decision; hierarchy; making; problem; process; realizations; situations; sub cache: ijahp-81.pdf plain text: ijahp-81.txt item: #325 of 388 id: ijahp-813 author: Azizi, Majid; Mansouri, Hamzehali title: ANALYSIS OF MARKETING STRATEGIC PLANNING IN THE HOME FURNITURE INDUSTRY BY APPLYING ANP: A CASE STUDY OF THE IRANIAN HOME FURNITURE INDUSTRY date: 2021-05-19 words: 10654 flesch: 35 summary: The third questionnaire was used to determine the weight value of the strategic criteria that affect marketing (4 macro experts in the field of economics, market and production of Iranian home furniture). Keywords: Analytic Network Process; strategic criteria; control criteria; benefits; opportunities; costs; risks; home furniture; marketing; sensitivity analysis 1. keywords: analysis; anp; azizi; case; criteria; furniture industry; home furniture; international; iranian; issue; journal; mansouri; marketing; planning; process; study cache: ijahp-813.pdf plain text: ijahp-813.txt item: #326 of 388 id: ijahp-814 author: Garg, Arpan; Ganesh, Talari title: AN ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS APPROACH FOR COVID-19 RISK ASSESSMENT STUDY AMID THE LATEST RE-OPEN AND UNLOCK PHASE IN INDIA date: 2020-12-23 words: 4380 flesch: 43 summary: IJAHP Article: Garg, Ganesh/An Analytical Hierarchy Process approach for a COVID-19 risk assessment study amid the latest re-open and unlock phase in India International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 565 Vol. 12 Issue 3 2020 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v12i3.814 AN ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS APPROACH FOR A COVID-19 RISK ASSESSMENT STUDY AMID THE LATEST RE-OPEN AND UNLOCK PHASE IN INDIA Arpan Garg Research scholar; Dept. of Mathematics & Scientific Computing National Institute of Technology Hamirpur, India arpan1996garg@gmail.com Talari Ganesh Assistant Professor; Dept. of Mathematics & Scientific Computing National Institute of Technology Hamirpur, India ganimsc2007@gmail.com Also, the AHP has been an impressive support system for researchers in risk assessment studies. keywords: assessment; covid-19; criteria; hierarchy; hierarchy process; process; risk; study; unlock cache: ijahp-814.pdf plain text: ijahp-814.txt item: #327 of 388 id: ijahp-819 author: Raco, Jozef Richard; Ohoitimur, Johanis; Krejci, James; Raton, Yulius; Rottie, Ronaldo; Paseru, Debby; Muaja, Octavianus; Rachmadi, Ronald title: THE DOMINANT FACTORS OF LECTURER'S RESEARCH PRODUCTIVITY USING AHP: CASE STUDY OF CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF DE LA SALLE MANADO-INDONESIA date: 2020-12-23 words: 6916 flesch: 44 summary: An evaluation of lecturer research productivity requires an instrument to measure lecturer research activities and understand determinants. Management must allocate internal funds to develop lecturer research productivity. keywords: ahp; catholic; criteria; factor; hierarchy; international; journal; lecturers; process; productivity; research; research productivity; study; university cache: ijahp-819.pdf plain text: ijahp-819.txt item: #328 of 388 id: ijahp-824 author: Jihadi, M. ; Elok Vilantika; Fatmawati Sholichah; Zainal Arifin title: BEST SHARIA BANK IN INDONESIA: AN ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS (AHP) APPROACH date: 2021-05-19 words: 4835 flesch: 51 summary: Keywords: Sharia bank performance; SCnP; Maqasid Index; Analytical Hierarchy Process 1. Initially, the presence of Sharia banks did not receive attention from national banks and Sharia banks had no official legal basis, so the presence of Sharia banking was limited to being an alternative bank for the citizens of Indonesia. keywords: ahp; bank; hierarchy; hierarchy process; index; indonesia; islamic; journal; performance; process; sharia cache: ijahp-824.pdf plain text: ijahp-824.txt item: #329 of 388 id: ijahp-825 author: Sari, Mustika; Wan Mohamed, Wan Mazlina; Ayu Jalil, Siti title: CONCEPTUAL MODEL FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ELECTRIC GROUND SUPPORT EQUIPMENT IN GROUND HANDLING ACTIVITY IN INDONESIA date: 2021-05-19 words: 4765 flesch: 42 summary: In airport activities, diesel ground support equipment can cause pollution, so the invention of electric ground support equipment can reduce pollution at airports (Kusnoputranto & Kristanto, 2014). IJAHP Article: Sari, Wan Mohamed, Ayu Jalil/Conceptual model for the implementation of electric ground support equipment in ground handling activities in Indonesia International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 170 Vol. 13 Issue 1 2021 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v13i1.825 CONCEPTUAL MODEL FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ELECTRIC GROUND SUPPORT EQUIPMENT IN GROUND keywords: airport; criteria; emissions; equipment; ground; ground handling; ground support; handling; indonesia; model; support; value cache: ijahp-825.pdf plain text: ijahp-825.txt item: #330 of 388 id: ijahp-833 author: Santos, Marcos dos; Costa, Igor Pinheiro de Araujo; Gomes, Carlos Francisco Simões title: MULTICRITERIA DECISION-MAKING IN THE SELECTION OF WARSHIPS: A NEW APPROACH TO THE AHP METHOD date: 2021-05-19 words: 7820 flesch: 48 summary: Statement of the goal, decision criteria and alternatives. In multiple criteria decisions, problem alternatives are compared pairwise, and the results express the preferences of the DM with the use of comparative notions. keywords: ahp; ahp method; approach; costa; criteria; decision; gomes; hierarchy; international; journal; making; method; model; multicriteria; new; process; selection; table cache: ijahp-833.pdf plain text: ijahp-833.txt item: #331 of 388 id: ijahp-839 author: Akman, Engin; Karaman, Abdullah title: PILLARS IN THE MAKING, INDUSTRY 4.0 ON THE HORIZON date: 2021-09-03 words: 13746 flesch: 42 summary: Posada et al. (2015); Rüßmann et al. (2015); Stock and Seliger (2016); Vaidya et al. (2018); Weyer et al. (2015) End-to-end integration End-to-end integration across the entire product life cycle. Rüßmann et al. (2015) IJAHP Article: Akman, Karaman/Pillars in the making, Industry 4.0 on the horizon International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 255 Vol. 13 Issue 2 2021 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v13i2.839 Dimension Pillar Sub-pillar Explanation References controls, etc. Service Remote maintenance/repair guidance, manual and service instructions, service inspections, self-service, etc. Alcácer and Cruz-Machado (2019); Fraga-Lamas et al. (2018); Kamble et al. (2018); Mourtzis et al. (2017); Rüßmann et al. (2015); Vaidya et al. keywords: ahp; akman; article; data; doi; et al; hierarchy; horizon; i4.0; ijahp; industrial; industry; integration; international; issue; journal; karaman; making; manufacturing; pillars; process; rüßmann et; sub; systems; technologies; vol cache: ijahp-839.pdf plain text: ijahp-839.txt item: #332 of 388 id: ijahp-842 author: Mu, Enrique title: The Past and Future of AHP/ANP: An ISAHP2020 Perspective date: 2020-12-23 words: 2444 flesch: 56 summary: First theme: Do AHP priorities have a unit? This approach is based on Fuzzy AHP (Van Laarhoven and Pedrycz, 1983) which is a combination of Fuzzy Set Theory (Zadeh, 1965) and AHP (Saaty, 1980) and was developed, in the view of its creators, to take into account uncertainty and imprecision in evaluations. keywords: ahp; anp; decision; journal; wedley cache: ijahp-842.pdf plain text: ijahp-842.txt item: #333 of 388 id: ijahp-843 author: Saaty, Rozann W. title: ISAHP2020 Virtual Conference date: 2020-12-23 words: 1895 flesch: 43 summary: Universities will save a significant amount of money in the future by having their people attend virtual conferences instead of live ones. The Organizing Committee Dr. Enrique Mu, Professor and University Faculty Research Officer at Carlow University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, served as the Chair of ISAHP2020 and was responsible for the event overall. keywords: ahp; conference; decision; process; university cache: ijahp-843.pdf plain text: ijahp-843.txt item: #334 of 388 id: ijahp-844 author: Mu, Enrique title: ISAHP2020: Lessons Learned and the Future of Conferences date: 2020-12-23 words: 1307 flesch: 52 summary: My doubts did not come from the technical feasibility, although the timeframe was challenging, but in terms of conference success. What do I mean by conference success? keywords: conference; isahp2020; time cache: ijahp-844.pdf plain text: ijahp-844.txt item: #335 of 388 id: ijahp-845 author: Sawant, Swapnil; Sarode, Avinash title: AN IDENTIFICATION OF CRITERIA FOR THIRD PARTY LOGISTICS SUPPLIERS (3PL) IN SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT (SCM) IN INDIAN MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES date: 2021-09-03 words: 11729 flesch: 52 summary: Sawant, Sarode/Identification of criteria for third party logistics suppliers (3PL) in supply chain management (SCM) in Indian manufacturing industries International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 278 Vol. 13 Issue 2 2021 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v13i2.845 IDENTIFICATION OF CRITERIA FOR THIRD PARTY LOGISTICS SUPPLIERS (3PL) IN SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT (SCM) IN INDIAN MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES Swapnil Sawant Mechanical (Manufacturing Systems) Lokmanya Tilak College of Engineering, Affiliated with University of Mumbai Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India sawantswapnil138@gmail.com Avinash Sarode Professor, Lokmanya Tilak College of Engineering Department of Mechanical Engineering, Affiliated with University of Mumbai Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India avinashsarode@gmail.com Sawant, Sarode/Identification of criteria for third party logistics suppliers (3PL) in supply chain management (SCM) in Indian manufacturing industries International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 279 Vol. 13 Issue 2 2021 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v13i2.845 an important role in the economic development of any country (Sarode & Kole, 2016). keywords: 3pl; chain; chain management; cost; criteria; factors; indian; industries; international; journal; logistics; management; manufacturing; party; party logistics; process; scm; supply; supply chain; ✔ ✔ cache: ijahp-845.pdf plain text: ijahp-845.txt item: #336 of 388 id: ijahp-846 author: Maludin, Syafrizal; Syarief, Rizal; Rifin, Amzul ; Rochman, Nurul Taufiqu title: REASSEMBLING TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER IN INDONESIA date: 2021-12-19 words: 8091 flesch: 42 summary: This change is referred to as technology transfer reassembly. The arrangement of technology transfer leads to a new form. keywords: ahp; article; development; experts; hierarchy; indonesia; international; issue; journal; patent; process; research; syarief; technology; technology transfer; transfer process cache: ijahp-846.pdf plain text: ijahp-846.txt item: #337 of 388 id: ijahp-85 author: Mu, Enrique title: Words from the Editor-in-Chief date: 2010-12-31 words: 283 flesch: 54 summary: Rozann Saaty, IJAHP managing editor has graciously written an introduction to the two articles. We open this issue with an application by Islam and Ismail showing the use of AHP for the prioritization of long- term objectives in Malaysia to fulfill their vision for 2020, the year in which Malaysia expects to join the group of developed countries. keywords: text cache: ijahp-85.pdf plain text: ijahp-85.txt item: #338 of 388 id: ijahp-851 author: Islam, Rafikul; Periaiah, Nagendran ; Abdullah, Muhammad Faris title: DECISION SUPPORT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT FOR MALAYSIAN BAUXITE MINING INDUSTRY USING ANALYTIC NETWORK PROCESS date: 2021-05-19 words: 9157 flesch: 42 summary: The primary contribution of this study is the development of a network model that prioritizes bauxite mining impacts, criteria, and clusters using the ANP. The main purpose of this exploratory stage was to determine relevant criteria for the EIA in bauxite mining industries. keywords: air; assessment; bauxite; bauxite mining; criteria; decision; eia; environmental; hierarchy; impact; industry; international; journal; malaysia; mining; mining industry; pollution; process; water cache: ijahp-851.pdf plain text: ijahp-851.txt item: #339 of 388 id: ijahp-86 author: Saaty, Rozann title: Words from the Managing Editor date: 2010-12-31 words: 222 flesch: 49 summary: The competition remains open, and we, the editors of the IJAHP, are soliciting more papers on the topic for publication in this journal. Saaty, Rozann/Introduction to the Eigenvector Challenge International Journal of the 78 Vol. 2, Issue 2, 2010 Analytic Hierarchy Process ISSN 1936-6744 At the ISAHP 2009 meeting in Pittsburgh, Thomas L. Saaty offered a challenge to the attendees to explain the eigenvector solution of the pairwise comparison judgment matrix that is the basis of the Analytic Hierarchy Process so that it would be understandable to any intelligent layman. keywords: saaty cache: ijahp-86.pdf plain text: ijahp-86.txt item: #340 of 388 id: ijahp-862 author: Raco, Jozef Richard; Krejci, James; Ohoitimur, Johanis ; Raton, Yulius; Adrian, Angelia Melani; Rottie, Ronaldo; Soputan, Jeanette; Ngenget, Stevanus; Sumual, Loureine; Sumakud, Erick title: PRIORITY SECTOR OF SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES USING AHP: A CASE STUDY OF YAMARU ENTERPRISE date: 2021-09-03 words: 7429 flesch: 45 summary: Small medium enterprises (SMEs) in Turkey and Malaysia: a comparative discussion on issues and challenges. The topmost level is the goal of the research, the second level is the criterion, and the third level is the alternatives as shown in Figure 1. Figure 1 Hierarchy structure of AHP The goal of this research is to determine the priority sectors of Yamaru SMEs. keywords: ahp; business; criteria; enterprises; hierarchy; journal; management; medium; priority; process; resources; smes; study; sumual; yamaru cache: ijahp-862.pdf plain text: ijahp-862.txt item: #341 of 388 id: ijahp-863 author: Garg, Arpan; Sharma, Y D ; Jain, Subit Kumar title: AN AHP BASED OPTIMAL DISTRIBUTION MODEL AND ITS APPLICATION IN COVID-19 VACCINATION date: 2021-09-03 words: 4881 flesch: 39 summary: Keywords: COVID-19; vaccine distribution model; AHP; MCDM; risk assessment mailto:arpan1996garg@gmail.com mailto:yds@nith.ac.in mailto:Jain.subit@nith.ac.in IJAHP Article: Garg, Sharma, Jain/An AHP-based optimal distribution model and its application in COVID-19 vaccination International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 208 Vol. 13 Issue 2 2021 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v13i2.863 1. Rank Optimal vaccine distribution with 𝑟 = 2 and Optimal vaccine distribution with 𝑟 = 3 and 𝑉 = 1.5 lakh 𝑉 = 2 lakh 𝑉 = 2.5 lakh 𝑉 = keywords: ahp; covid-19; distribution; distribution model; hierarchy; model; state; vaccine cache: ijahp-863.pdf plain text: ijahp-863.txt item: #342 of 388 id: ijahp-864 author: Kaftandzieva, Tamara; Cvetkoska, Violeta title: FINANCIAL DECISION MAKING AMONG YOUNG ADULTS: AN AHP APPROACH date: 2021-12-19 words: 9849 flesch: 42 summary: Irrespective of the goals, dealing with financial decisions in a IJAHP Article: Kaftandzieva, Cvetkoska/ Financial decision making among young adults: an AHP approach International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 474 Vol. 13 Issue 3 2021 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v13i3.864 multidimensional setting can result in more informed outcomes. In addition to the modest supply of IJAHP Article: Kaftandzieva, Cvetkoska/ Financial decision making among young adults: an AHP approach International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 470 Vol. 13 Issue 3 2021 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v13i3.864 attractive financial instruments, insufficient investment is a result of a low standard of living, the risk culture, and the traditional habits of consumption and savings. keywords: adults; ahp; alternatives; approach; criteria; decision; decision making; financial; hierarchy; investment; journal; making; personal; process; respondents cache: ijahp-864.pdf plain text: ijahp-864.txt item: #343 of 388 id: ijahp-866 author: Petrillo, Antonella title: DIGITAL EFFECT : Visions of business and Industry 5.0 date: 2021-05-19 words: 935 flesch: 33 summary: Industry and academic leaders agree that digital manufacturing technologies will transform every “link” in the manufacturing value chain, from research and development, IJAHP News and Events: Petrillo/Digital effect: Vision of business and Industry 5.0 International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 206 Vol. 13 Issue 1 2022 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v13i1.866 supply chain, and factory operations to marketing, sales, and service. In seven chapters, the authors address digital transformation through an analysis of enabling technologies (e.g., artificial intelligence, quantum computing, robotics, etc.) as well as the impacts of new forms of work organization, from the need to reform training courses to the dangers of new forms of authoritarianism and social inequality. keywords: business; industry; manufacturing cache: ijahp-866.pdf plain text: ijahp-866.txt item: #344 of 388 id: ijahp-869 author: Mu, Enrique title: AHP/ANP and World Connections date: 2021-05-19 words: 234 flesch: 58 summary: IJAHP: Mu/AHP/ANP and world connections International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 1 Vol. 13 Issue 1 2021 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v13i1.869 AHP/ANP and World Connections Welcome to the first IJAHP issue of 2021! I’ve had the opportunity to experience this level of world connection through our AHP/ANP work. keywords: issue cache: ijahp-869.pdf plain text: ijahp-869.txt item: #345 of 388 id: ijahp-87 author: Saaty, Thomas L. title: The Eigenvector in Lay Language date: 2010-12-31 words: 2385 flesch: 60 summary: Keywords: AHP, decision making, principal eigenvector 1. Several ratio scale values can lead to the same interval scale value resulting in loss of information. keywords: apple; eigenvector cache: ijahp-87.pdf plain text: ijahp-87.txt item: #346 of 388 id: ijahp-870 author: Packeer Mohamed, Shafinah Farvin; Baharom, Fauziah; Deraman, Aziz; Tarawneh, Omar; Yusof , Yuhanis title: THE SOFTWARE PROCESS ASSESSMENT AND CERTIFICATION: APPLICATION OF THE ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS FOR PRIORITY DETERMINATION date: 2022-12-10 words: 11553 flesch: 46 summary: This type of software process also focuses on producing documentation (Sommerville, 2007). Software process – the quality of the software process carried out when developing the software. keywords: ahp; baharom; certification; criteria; development; doi; engineering; evaluation; factors; group; hierarchy process; international; journal; management; priorities; priority; process assessment; quality; software development; software process cache: ijahp-870.pdf plain text: ijahp-870.txt item: #347 of 388 id: ijahp-871 author: Ohoitimur, Johanis; Krejci, James; Raco, Jozef Richard; Raton, Yulius; Jamlean, Anselmus; Welerubun, Ignasius; Tanod, Rafael title: STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT BASED ON BUCKLEY'S FUZZY AHP AND SWOT: EXAMPLE OF THE CONGREGATION OF THE MISSIONARIES OF THE SACRED HEART date: 2021-09-03 words: 10523 flesch: 53 summary: Keywords: SWOT- fuzzy AHP; MSC; strategic management; Catholic, decision making; religious 1. The MSC as a religious organization within the Catholic Church cannot be separated from the implementation of strategic management. keywords: ahp; congregation; criteria; heart; hierarchy; international; journal; management; missionaries; msc; process; strategic; study; swot cache: ijahp-871.pdf plain text: ijahp-871.txt item: #348 of 388 id: ijahp-880 author: Brandao, Lilane; de Alencar Naas, Irenilza; de Oliveira Costa Neto, Pedro Luiz title: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF GEM PRODUCTION: AN APPLICATION OF THE ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS date: 2021-12-19 words: 10582 flesch: 40 summary: The results suggest that sustainable development is highly related to gem mining (44.7%, rank 1), moderately related to gem cutting (32.5%, rank 2), and there is little relationship to gem marketing (22 .8%, rank 3), considering the criteria, sub- criteria, and alternatives. The results suggest that sustainable development is highly related to gem mining (44.7%, rank 1), moderately related to gems cutting (32.5%, rank 2), and there is little relationship to gems commercialization (22.8%, rank 3), considering the criteria, sub-criteria, and alternatives. keywords: analysis; analytic; chain; costa; criteria; development; factors; gem; gem production; hierarchy process; high; journal; mineral; mining; o n; oliveira; process; production; production process; sub; table cache: ijahp-880.pdf plain text: ijahp-880.txt item: #349 of 388 id: ijahp-883 author: Krstic, Ana; Mimovic, Predrag title: THE IMPACT OF THE NEW GLOBAL REALITY ON THE EUROPEAN INTEGRATION PROCESS: THE CASE OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA date: 2021-12-19 words: 10151 flesch: 42 summary: Table 2 Relative importance of the ANP model cluster for the evaluation of alternative outcomes of Serbia’s EU accession process Clusters Relative importance of the clusters Cluster of internal factors 0.0647 Cluster of geo-political factors 0.5666 Costs of EU accession 0.1843 Risks of EU accession 0.1843 Inconsistency 0.06504 IJAHP Article: Krstic, Mimovic/The impact of the new global reality on the European integration process: the case of the Republic of Serbia International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 424 Vol. 13 Issue 3 2021 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v13i3.883 Table 3 Relative importance of primary factors in relation to the main goal of the model Criteria Relative importance of the criteria Geo-political factors 0.64299 Cost factors 0.12939 Risk factors 0.07471 Internal factors 0.15291 Inconsistency 0.04435 Figure 3 Comparative overview of the relative importance of the criteria in 2018 and 2021 Table 4 Relative importance of the sub-criteria of the criterion internal factors Name Normalized by cluster Relations with Kosovo 0.82379 Internal political conflicts 0.01748 Coherence of the legal-political system 0.08592 Coherence of the economic system 0.03735 Coherence of the social system 0.03546 Source: Author's assessments 0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 External factors Costs factors Risk factors Internal factors Relative importance in 2018 relative importance in 2021 IJAHP Article: Krstic, Mimovic/The impact of the new global reality on the European integration process: the case of the Republic of Serbia International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 425 Vol. 13 Issue 3 2021 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v13i3.883 Figure 4 Comparative overview of the relative importance of cluster elements internal factors in 2018 and 2021 Table 5 Relative importance of the sub-criteria of the criterion geo-political factors Name Normalized by cluster EU security challenges 0.09685 Britain's exit from the EU 0.08754 Strengthening the EU conservative right 0.04785 COVID-19 pandemic 0.03937 EU internal political factors 0.02115 Serbia's relations with China 0.22535 Serbia's relations with Russia 0.23521 Serbia's relations with the United States 0.24668 Source: Author's assessments Figure 5 Comparative overview of the relative importance of cluster elements geo- political factors in 2018 and 2021 0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 Estimate in 2018 Estimate in 2021 0 0.05 0.1 0.15 0.2 0.25 0.3 Estimate in 2021 Estimate in 2018 IJAHP Article: A complex multi-attribute decision-making methodology known as the Analytical Network Process was used to include and prioritize relevant factors that define Serbia's geostrategic position, the mutual influences of the factors, and prioritize alternatives identified in the form of indicative dates for EU accession or inability to complete the process. keywords: accession; china; european; factors; hierarchy process; impact; importance; integration process; new; process; relations; republic; serbia; serbia international cache: ijahp-883.pdf plain text: ijahp-883.txt item: #350 of 388 id: ijahp-884 author: Abdou, Idriss; Tkiouat, Mohamed title: AN AHP APPLICATION FOR FAILURE RISK-BASED RANKING OF ELECTRIC VEHICLE PROJECTS date: 2021-12-19 words: 5529 flesch: 53 summary: By specifying the failure risk categories and failure risk factors, the ranking of EV project failure risks and thus of EV projects is accomplished via the pairwise comparison in the AHP. By specifying the failure risk categories and failure risk factors, the ranking of EV project failure risks and the EV projects are accomplished via the pairwise comparison in the AHP. keywords: ahp; failure; failure risk; hierarchy; mobility; priority; process; projects; ranking; risk; vector; vehicle cache: ijahp-884.pdf plain text: ijahp-884.txt item: #351 of 388 id: ijahp-89 author: Mu, Enrique title: Introduction to the Current Issue date: 2011-06-14 words: 178 flesch: 58 summary: Von Solms’s discussion of AHP/ANP validity opens the issue followed by articles dealing with the use of ANP in modeling problem situations, discussion of an AHP/ANP approach to stability measurement, a survey of methods to make transitive multiple comparison matrices, and an interpretation of AHP synthesis as the eigensolution of an ANP supermatrix. We are also adding a News section in this issue for AHP-related news and events that may be of interest to our IJAHP readers. keywords: issue cache: ijahp-89.pdf plain text: ijahp-89.txt item: #352 of 388 id: ijahp-890 author: Nguyen, Tuan; Truong, Canh title: INTEGRAL SWOT-AHP-TOWS MODEL FOR STRATEGIC AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF DROUGHT: A CASE STUDY IN NINH THUAN, VIETNAM date: 2022-05-12 words: 11151 flesch: 53 summary: The SWOT-AHP model is a quantitative strategy that analyzes SWOT analysis factors (Gao & Peng, 2011; Haque et al., 2020; Yavuz & Baycan, 2014). SWOT analysis The SWOT analysis is used to strategically analyze activities based on their Strengths (S), Weaknesses (W), Opportunities (O), and Threats (T). keywords: ahp; analysis; development; doi; drought; et al; factors; hierarchy; hierarchy process; international; journal; model; ninh; ninh thuan; process; research; strategic; strategy; study; swot; swot analysis; thuan; tows; vietnam cache: ijahp-890.pdf plain text: ijahp-890.txt item: #353 of 388 id: ijahp-891 author: Shahwan, Syahidawati; Sapian, Safeza Mohd; Ibrahim, Norhazlina; Mohammed, Mustafa Omar; Agha, Ehsanullah; Kanesan, Thavamaran title: RANKING THE COMPLIANCE OF ISLAMIC BANKING HOME FINANCING PRODUCTS WITH MAQASID SHARIAH USING AHP date: 2023-01-06 words: 7478 flesch: 49 summary: Ranking the compliance of Islamic banking home financing products with Maqasid Shariah using AHP International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 1 Vol. mailto:syahidawati@usim.edu.my mailto:safeza@usim.edu.my mailto:%20norhazlina@usim.edu.my mailto:momar@alqasimia.ac.ae mailto:ehsanaagha@gmail.com mailto:drthava@proofreadingbyphd.com IJAHP Article: Shahwan, Sapian, Ibrahim, Mohammed, Agha, Kanesan/Ranking the compliance of Islamic banking home financing products with Maqasid Shariah using AHP International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 2 Vol. keywords: ahp; banking; development; financing; hierarchy; home; home financing; international; islamic; journal; maqasid; maqasid shariah; process; product; product development; shahwan; shariah cache: ijahp-891.pdf plain text: ijahp-891.txt item: #354 of 388 id: ijahp-892 author: Pradhan, Saurabh; Patel, Gokulananda; Priya, Pankaj title: MEASURING CUSTOMER LIFETIME VALUE: APPLICATION OF ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS IN DETERMINING RELATIVE WEIGHTS OF ‘LRFM’ date: 2021-12-19 words: 8984 flesch: 48 summary: RFM has been a popular value employed in the marketing discipline to evaluate lifetime value (LTV) or customer lifetime value (CLV) for decades (Gupta et al., 2006). The value of customers to a firm or organization is determined by customer lifetime value during the life cycle of the customers (Tukel & Dixit, 2013). keywords: ahp; clv; customer; customer lifetime; data; doi; hierarchy; hierarchy process; journal; lifetime; lifetime value; lrfm; process; value; variables; weights cache: ijahp-892.pdf plain text: ijahp-892.txt item: #355 of 388 id: ijahp-896 author: Garuti, Claudio title: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) AND ETHICAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (EAI): Medical Decision Support System, Medical Sapiens (MS) date: 2021-09-03 words: 3146 flesch: 47 summary:  MS is an agile system, with an ability to add new diseases, new presentations or evolutions of existing diseases. Also, MS can speed up learning about rare diseases, new presentations of old diseases, or the popup of new diseases such as Covid-19. keywords: artificial; intelligence; process; system cache: ijahp-896.pdf plain text: ijahp-896.txt item: #356 of 388 id: ijahp-9 author: Saaty, Thomas L. title: Words from the AHP Creator date: 2009-04-18 words: 273 flesch: 60 summary: I want to express my thanks to Enrique and to Senior Editor Luis Vargas and to Managing Editor Rozann Saaty, my wife, and to all of you who actually do the work. We also have a sizeable community of scholars and users who can enjoy the diversity of theory, applications and practical ideas that will appear here and will advance the cause of decision making. keywords: ahp cache: ijahp-9.pdf plain text: ijahp-9.txt item: #357 of 388 id: ijahp-90 author: Lipovetsky, Stan title: AN INTERPRETATION OF THE AHP GLOBAL PRIORITY AS THE EIGENVECTOR SOLUTION OF AN ANP SUPERMATRIX date: 2011-06-14 words: 3014 flesch: 66 summary: The Hierarchical Synthesis Process Synthesizing local priority vectors into global priority vectors for an AHP model can be easily performed by multiplying the matrix Z comprised of the local eigenvectors of the alternatives with respect to the criteria, times a column vector X of criteria priorities with respect to the goal. The vector X is the 8 × 1 vector of criteria priorities with respect to the Goal (blue); Y is an 8 × 8 matrix of priority vectors, one for each of the criteria in the case IJAHP ARTICLE: keywords: ahp; global; hierarchy; house; priority; supermatrix cache: ijahp-90.pdf plain text: ijahp-90.txt item: #358 of 388 id: ijahp-906 author: Petrillo, Antonella title: World Events: AHP/ANP as multidimensional tools date: 2021-09-03 words: 609 flesch: 24 summary: Figure 1 MAS 2021 Conference During MAS 2021, a session titled “Decision Support Systems Applications” organized by Fabio De Felice (University of Cassino and Southern Lazio - Italy) and Antonella Petrillo (Università degli Studi di Napoli “Parthenope” - Italy) will take place. The session will offer the opportunity to present results and critical issues concerning Decision Support Systems, the theory underlying such systems and its applications. keywords: decision; systems cache: ijahp-906.pdf plain text: ijahp-906.txt item: #359 of 388 id: ijahp-908 author: Mu, Enrique title: AHP/ANP Community Transitions: Twice Distinguished Professor Birsen Karpak Retires from Youngstown State University, USA date: 2021-09-03 words: 498 flesch: 36 summary: IJAHP News and Events: Mu/AHP/ANP community transitions: twice distinguished professor, Birsen Karpak, retires from Youngstown State University, USA International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 408 Vol. 13 Issue 2 2021 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v13i2.908 AHP/ANP Community Transitions: Twice Distinguished Professor Birsen Karpak retires from Youngstown State University, USA Our beloved IJAHP editorial board member and Associate Editor, Dr. Birsen Karpak, has announced her retirement from Youngstown State University (YSU), USA, where she has worked for the past 36 years. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KYxDfRYAAAAJ At her retirement, Dr. Birsen Karpak was the second most cited faculty member at the Williamson College of Business (WCBA), Youngstown State University. keywords: journal; karpak cache: ijahp-908.pdf plain text: ijahp-908.txt item: #360 of 388 id: ijahp-909 author: Vargas, Luis G; Guiora, Amos N.; Minutolo, Marcel C. title: Report on an Analytic Network Process (ANP) Model to Estimate the Benefits, Opportunities, Costs, and Risks (BOCR) that Gun Policies and Violence Prevention Interventions have on Legal Users of Firearms date: 2021-09-03 words: 14825 flesch: 59 summary: ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v13i2.909 Report on an Analytic Network Process (ANP) Model to Estimate the Benefits, Opportunities, Costs, and Risks (BOCR) that Gun Policies and Violence Prevention Interventions Have on Legal Users of Firearms Amos N. Guiora Professor of Law S.J. Quinney College of Law University of Utah Marcel C. Minutolo Professor of Strategic Management School of Business Robert Morris University Luis G. Vargas Professor of Business Analytics & Operations Katz Graduate School of Business University of Pittsburgh ABSTRACT Balancing public good with individual rights is a difficult task; gun policies attempt to do just this. Gun policies and laws may diminish or support the ability of the lawful gun owner to present this pretense. keywords: benefits; costs; gun; gun policies; high; low; model; opportunities; policy; process; risks; w w cache: ijahp-909.pdf plain text: ijahp-909.txt item: #361 of 388 id: ijahp-91 author: Saaty, Thomas L. title: ALIGNING THE MEASUREMENT OF TANGIBLES WITH INTANGIBLES AND NOT THE CONVERSE date: 2011-06-14 words: 3209 flesch: 48 summary: Sometimes critics, in trying to show that the AHP is not a valid theory, use a model with only tangible criteria, and, because they need this for their validation against some real world result obtained by applying an arithmetic formula, they choose tangible criteria with the same ratio scale. The other may involve relations between subcriteria from a common scale and intangible criteria. keywords: alternatives; criteria; priorities; table cache: ijahp-91.pdf plain text: ijahp-91.txt item: #362 of 388 id: ijahp-910 author: Mu, Enrique title: Another Tunnel at the End of the Tunnel date: 2021-09-03 words: 473 flesch: 48 summary: IJAHP: Mu/ Another tunnel at the end of the tunnel International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 205 Vol. 13 Issue 2 2021 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v13i2.910 Another Tunnel at the End of the Tunnel Dear IJAHP Reader: The events of the past weeks and days have shown how complex and dynamic today’s environment is. Enrique Mu, PhD IJAHP Editor in Chief IJAHP: Mu/ Another tunnel at the end of the tunnel International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 206 Vol. 13 Issue 2 2021 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v13i2.910 REFERENCES Saaty, T. L. (1980). keywords: process; tunnel cache: ijahp-910.pdf plain text: ijahp-910.txt item: #363 of 388 id: ijahp-911 author: Vargas, Luis G. title: International Center for Conflict Resolution (IC4CR) Wins Award from the National Collaborative on Gun Violence Research date: 2021-09-03 words: 287 flesch: 18 summary: The International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (IJAHP) is honored to publish the report titled “An Analytic Network Model (ANP) to Estimate the Benefits, Opportunities, Costs, and Risks (BOCR) that Gun Policies and Violence Prevention Interventions have on Legal Users of Firearms” authored by Professors Amos N. Guiora, Marcel C. Minutolo and Luis G. Vargas, in this issue. The International Center for Conflict Resolution (IC4CR) won a $30,000 grant award, given by the National Collaborative on Gun Violence Research (NCGVR), to develop a method to estimate the harms and benefits that gun policy and violence prevention interventions have on legal users of firearms. keywords: gun; violence cache: ijahp-911.pdf plain text: ijahp-911.txt item: #364 of 388 id: ijahp-913 author: Azevedo de Souza, Luciano; Gomes Costa, Helder ; Oliveira de Araujo, Fernando title: PRIORITIZING CRITERIA TO EVALUATE PROJECT SUCCESS: MODELING WITH THE ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS (AHP): Empirical study in a Brazilian health organization date: 2022-03-28 words: 5297 flesch: 42 summary: Keywords: project performance; project success criteria; project success; multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA); Ascertaining the impact of contractors pre-qualification criteria on project success criteria. keywords: ahp; criteria; hierarchy; hierarchy process; process; project; success cache: ijahp-913.pdf plain text: ijahp-913.txt item: #365 of 388 id: ijahp-915 author: Moradi, Nima title: PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF UNIVERSITY FACULTY BY COMBINING BSC, AHP, AND TOPSIS: FROM THE STUDENTS’ PERSPECTIVE date: 2022-08-10 words: 10344 flesch: 51 summary: Keywords: university performance evaluation; BSC; AHP; TOPSIS 1. University performance evaluation and strategic mapping using balanced scorecard (BSC): Case study–Sohar University, Oman. keywords: ahp; bsc; evaluation; faculty; international; journal; measures; performance; performance evaluation; perspective; students; table; topsis; university; weights; 𝐶𝐿∗ cache: ijahp-915.pdf plain text: ijahp-915.txt item: #366 of 388 id: ijahp-919 author: Repetski, Edward J; Sarkani, Shahram; Mazzuchi, Thomas title: APPLYING THE ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS (AHP) TO EXPERT DOCUMENTS date: 2022-03-28 words: 5495 flesch: 54 summary: Overall, this unique application of the AHP provides those with access to a set of expert literature a method to quantify expert opinions in a consistent and cost-effective manner. Keywords: expert opinion; opinion extraction 1. keywords: ahp; documents; expert; figure; hierarchy; hierarchy process; matrix; opinions; process cache: ijahp-919.pdf plain text: ijahp-919.txt item: #367 of 388 id: ijahp-92 author: Mu, Enrique title: EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ENRIQUE MU USES AHP TO HELP CITY OF PITTSBURGH MOVE TO THE CLOUD date: 2011-06-14 words: 421 flesch: 38 summary: News/Editor-In-Chief Enrique Mu Uses AHP to Help City of Pittsburgh Move to the Cloud International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 88 Vol. 3 Issue 1 2011 ISSN 1936-6744   AHP NEWS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ENRIQUE MU USES AHP TO HELP CITY OF PITTSBURGH MOVE TO THE CLOUD Professor Enrique Mu, Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of the AHP (on the right), honored by Mayor Luke Ravenstahl for helping the City of Pittsburgh select the best technology to move its Information Technology functions to the Cloud, a tough decision that had to be made by city officials. The group participating in the decision process consisted of approximately 12 IJAHP ARTICLE: News/Editor-In-Chief Enrique Mu Uses AHP to Help City of Pittsburgh Move to the Cloud International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 89 Vol. 3 Issue 1 2011 ISSN 1936-6744   specialists in finance, technical issues and administration from the city information systems department. keywords: city cache: ijahp-92.pdf plain text: ijahp-92.txt item: #368 of 388 id: ijahp-922 author: Botelho, Marcelo title: ANALYZING PRIORITY VECTORS: GOING BEYOND INCONSISTENCY INDEXES date: 2022-09-30 words: 6169 flesch: 51 summary: IJAHP Article: Botelho/Analyzing the AHP priority vectors: going beyond inconsistency indexes International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 1 Vol. Botelho/Analyzing the AHP priority vectors: going beyond inconsistency indexes International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 2 Vol. keywords: ahp; analysis; doi; fpv; governance; hierarchy; inconsistency; indexes; international; journal; priority; process; rank; reversal; vectors cache: ijahp-922.pdf plain text: ijahp-922.txt item: #369 of 388 id: ijahp-93 author: Mu, Enrique title: THREE SPECIAL ISSUES PLANNED FOR ISAHP2011 PAPERS date: 2011-06-14 words: 134 flesch: 52 summary: The International Symposium on the AHP (ISAHP2011) will take place in Sorrento, Italy, June 15-18, 2011. News/Three Special Issues Planned for ISAHP2011 Papers International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 90 Vol. 3 Issue 1 2011 ISSN 1936-6744   THREE SPECIAL ISSUES PLANNED FOR ISAHP2011 PAPERS keywords: issues cache: ijahp-93.pdf plain text: ijahp-93.txt item: #370 of 388 id: ijahp-943 author: Raton, Yulius Christian; Raco, Jozef Richard ; Krejci, James V; Ohoitimur, Johanis; Soputan, Jeanette E.M.; Tumewu, Tryadi Wilhelmus ; Korompis, Merry Jeanned’arc ; Taroreh, Frankie J.H; Rachmadi, Ronald A.; Ngenget, Stevanus title: SOFT SKILLS OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN INDUSTRY 4.0 ERA USING BUCKLEY’S FUZZY-AHP date: 2022-04-28 words: 12752 flesch: 50 summary: Application of fuzzy AHP method based on eigenvalues for decision making in construction industry. For example, the difference between the teamwork criteria (Fuzzy- AHP 26.2%) and critical thinking criteria (Fuzzy-AHP 25.5%) was only 0.07%. keywords: ahp; comparison; criteria; education; fuzzy; hierarchy; industry; international; journal; ohoitimur; process; raco; results; skills; sub; thinking; weight cache: ijahp-943.pdf plain text: ijahp-943.txt item: #371 of 388 id: ijahp-944 author: Regmi, Suraj; Shiwakoti, Sagar title: STRATEGIC ANALYSIS OF THE NEPAL ELECTRICITY AUTHORITY: A SWOT-AHP ANALYSIS BASED ON STAKEHOLDERS’ PERCEPTIONS date: 2022-04-06 words: 12999 flesch: 48 summary: SWOT analysis A SWOT analysis is a universally used technique for analyzing internal and external environments related to an organization in order to identify a systematic approach for decision making and strategy formulation (Kurttila, Pesonen, Kangas, & Kajanus, 2000; Osuna & Aranda, 2007). SWOT analysis considering the internal and external factors 2. keywords: ahp analysis; analysis; criteria; demand; electricity; electricity authority; energy; factors; hierarchy; journal; nea; nepal; process; strategic; swot; swot analysis cache: ijahp-944.pdf plain text: ijahp-944.txt item: #372 of 388 id: ijahp-945 author: Mu, Enrique title: Book Review: Overcoming the Retributive Nature of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by Thomas L. Saaty, H. J. Zoffer, Luis G. Vargas, Amos Guiora date: 2021-12-19 words: 1463 flesch: 55 summary: There is a rich tradition of the use of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) in conflict negotiation and resolution, beginning with the classic “Conflict Resolution: The Analytic Hierarchy Approach” (Saaty & Alexander, 1989), in which the second half of the book was dedicated to retributive conflicts. The AHP introduction is followed by a description of what retributive conflicts are and how to address them using the AHP’s ability to quantify both tangible and intangible gain and loss factors for both parties. keywords: book; conflict; process; saaty cache: ijahp-945.pdf plain text: ijahp-945.txt item: #373 of 388 id: ijahp-946 author: Ağaç, Gökhan; Şimşir, İsmail title: OPTIMAL SITE SELECTION OF A PANDEMIC HOSPITAL USING MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION-MAKING APPROACH date: 2022-03-25 words: 9005 flesch: 45 summary: Pandemic hospital site selection: a GIS-based MCDM approach employing Pythagorean fuzzy sets. Hospital location selection: A systematic literature review on methodologies and applications. keywords: adapazarı; criteria; decision; hierarchy; hospital; location; making; pandemic; process; selection; weights; 𝐶𝑅 = cache: ijahp-946.pdf plain text: ijahp-946.txt item: #374 of 388 id: ijahp-948 author: Marcarelli, Gabriella; Mancini, Paola title: SCHOOL AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE FOR RANKING HIGH SCHOOLS: SOME EVIDENCE FROM ITALY date: 2022-06-27 words: 6007 flesch: 51 summary: Keywords: school ranking; school performance; academic performance; AHP; PROMETHEE 1. For example, CL exceeds SL for IJAHP Article: Marcarelli, Mancini/School and academic performance for ranking high schools: Some evidence from Italy International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 10 Vol. 14 Issue 2 2022 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v14i2.948 most of criteria related to school performance, particularly in Southern Italy, whereas SL overcomes CL regarding ACFY, especially in the North. keywords: criteria; evidence; hierarchy; international; italy; journal; mancini; performance; process; ranking; school cache: ijahp-948.pdf plain text: ijahp-948.txt item: #375 of 388 id: ijahp-949 author: Gonzalez-Urango, Hannia title: How the Analytic Hierarchy/Network Process Supports a More Responsible and Committed Research and Innovation date: 2021-12-19 words: 2664 flesch: 41 summary: At the national level, in Spain, the INPERRI Project (2016-2019) proposed concise lists of RRI indicators to monitor Spain’s science and innovation policies in the eight RRI areas or perspectives (Gonzalez-Urango, García-Melón et al., 2020; Monsonís-Payá et al., 2017; Otero-Hermida & García-Melón, 2018). The AHP/ANP are useful tools for prioritizing and defining which metrics contribute the most to RRI monitoring and evaluation at different levels. keywords: hierarchy; innovation; process; research; rri; urango cache: ijahp-949.pdf plain text: ijahp-949.txt item: #376 of 388 id: ijahp-953 author: Mu, Enrique title: Announcing the 26th International Conference on Multicriteria Decision-making date: 2021-12-19 words: 233 flesch: 36 summary: July 1, 2022 Call for invited session proposals: October 1, 2021 Submission deadline for invited session proposals: November 30, 2021 Call for abstracts: December 2, 2021 Submission deadline for abstracts: March 1, 2022 Notification of acceptance: April 30, 2022 Early bird registration deadline: May 30, 2022 Organizing Committee Professor Alessio Ishizaka (Chair) Dr. Banu Lokman (Co-chair) Professor Dylan Jones Professor Ashraf Labib Professor Salvatore Greco Dr. Negar Akbari Dr. Maria Barbati Dr. Salem Chakh Aerial View of Portsmouth and Portsmouth Harbor Source: keywords: professor cache: ijahp-953.pdf plain text: ijahp-953.txt item: #377 of 388 id: ijahp-954 author: Mu, Enrique title: Tom Saaty's Spirit is Alive in his Personal Archive date: 2021-12-19 words: 898 flesch: 48 summary: Bottom center, Tom Saaty as a young man I feel indebted to Rozann Saaty, president of the Creative Decisions Foundation and a key member of our IJAHP editorial team for the opportunity to peek into this treasure trove of Tom’s documents. Tom was born in Mosul, Iraq, where he grew up before coming to the U.S. to study at different high-level institutions until he obtained his PhD in Mathematics from Yale University in 1953. keywords: notes; saaty; tom cache: ijahp-954.pdf plain text: ijahp-954.txt item: #378 of 388 id: ijahp-955 author: Petrillo, Antonella; Karpak, Birsen title: Theory and Applications of AHP/ANP in Supply Chain Management session at INFORMS 2021 date: 2021-12-19 words: 486 flesch: 30 summary: Figure 3 INFORMS 2021 Sezin Güleryüz In addition, Birsen Karpak (Youngstown State University, USA), Ilker Topcu (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey), Fusun Ulengin (Sabanci University, Turkey) presented IJAHP News and Events: Petrillo, Karpak/ Theory and applications of AHP/ANP in supply chain management session at INFORMS 2021 International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 550 Vol. 13 Issue 3 2021 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v13i3.955 “Analytic Hierarchy Process/Analytic Network Process Applications In Big Data Enabled Supply Chain Management”. In particular, during INFORMS the session: “Theory and Applications of AHP/ANP in Supply Chain Management” took place and was organized by Birsen Karpak (Youngstown State University – USA) and Antonella Petrillo (Università degli Studi di Napoli “Parthenope” - Italy). keywords: anp; informs cache: ijahp-955.pdf plain text: ijahp-955.txt item: #379 of 388 id: ijahp-958 author: El Hadidi, Omia; Meshref, Ahmed ; El‐Dash, Karim ; Basiouny, Mohamed title: EVALUATION OF A BUILDING LIFE CYCLE COST (LCC) CRITERIA IN EGYPT USING THE ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS (AHP) date: 2022-08-08 words: 8611 flesch: 42 summary: The comparison matrix for environmental impact cost criteria and end of life cost criteria is completely consistent, as the CRs equal zero. The AHP rank shows that the salvage value and recycling of the end of life cycle criteria is about 75%, accordingly demolition cost is 25% of the end of life cost criteria. keywords: ahp; building; cost; cost criteria; criteria; cycle cost; egypt; hierarchy; hierarchy process; journal; lcc; life; life cycle; maintenance; process cache: ijahp-958.pdf plain text: ijahp-958.txt item: #380 of 388 id: ijahp-960 author: Damayanti, Herna Octivia ; Saputra, Suradi Wijaya ; Wijayanto, Dian ; Mudzakir, Abdul Kohar ; Rudiyanto, Alin Fithor title: MANAGEMENT STRATEGY OF 2nd and 3rd CLASS FISH AUCTION LOCATIONS IN PATI REGENCY, INDONESIA date: 2022-08-10 words: 11031 flesch: 47 summary: Keywords: Analytical Hierarchy Process; fish auction place; strategy; management 1. The problem with fish auction places is that the auction process does not operate optimally or sometimes does not even run at all. keywords: activities; aspect; auction place; class fish; fish auction; fisheries; fishermen; hierarchy; infrastructure; journal; management; management strategy; pati regency; place officers; places; process; rd class; strategy; traders cache: ijahp-960.pdf plain text: ijahp-960.txt item: #381 of 388 id: ijahp-970 author: Canhasi-Kasemi, Esma; Vardari, Luan title: COMPARISON OF TWO DIFFERENT JUDGMENT SCALES WITH THE AHP GSM OPERATOR PREFERENCE OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS date: 2023-02-06 words: 6299 flesch: 49 summary: Goepel (2019) categorizes AHP scales into the following three groups: Group 1: The maximum entry value in the pairwise comparison matrix is kept at nine as in Saaty's fundamental scale. Mapping verbal AHP scale to numerical scale for cloud computing strategy selection. keywords: ahp; criteria; decision; gsm; gsm operator; hierarchy; operator; process; saaty; scale; students; vectors cache: ijahp-970.pdf plain text: ijahp-970.txt item: #382 of 388 id: ijahp-974 author: Shamshol Bahri, Muhamad Safuan; Shariff, S. Sarifah Radiah; Yahya, Nazry title: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS ON DECISION CRITERIA FOR PORT PERSONNEL USING HYBRID ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS (H-AHP) date: 2023-02-16 words: 7886 flesch: 45 summary: Shamshol Bahri, Shariff, Yahya/ Comparative analysis on decision criteria for port personnel using hybrid Analytical Hierarchy Process (H-AHP) International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 1 Vol. 14 Issue 3 2022 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v14i3.974 COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS ON DECISION CRITERIA FOR PORT PERSONNEL USING HYBRID ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS (H-AHP) Muhamad Safuan Shamshol Bahri Malaysia Institute of Transport (MITRANS) Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam Malaysia msafuansham@gmail.com S.Sarifah Radiah Shariff 1* Malaysia Institute of Transport (MITRANS) Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam School of Mathematical Sciences, College of Computing, Informatic and Media Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam Malaysia shari990@uitm.edu.my Nazry Yahya Johor Port Skills Centre, Johor Port Berhad Malaysia nazry@johorport.com.my ABSTRACT Shamshol Bahri, Shariff, Yahya/ Comparative analysis on decision criteria for port personnel using hybrid Analytical Hierarchy Process (H-AHP) International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 14 Vol. 14 Issue 3 2022 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v14i3.974 Table 8 Adapted criteria from literature No Criteria from Demerci and Kılıç (2019) Proposed criteria (in this study) 1 Education Quality of personnel 2 Personality Personnel behavior 3 Experience Social Influence Technical Skills 4 Exam result Core competence 5 Foreign language Team cooperation 6 Vocational Job satisfaction The scores of the seven criteria in Table 9 were then adapted into the new value to be in line with the new proposed criteria as shown in Table 10 using the Monte Carlo simulation method (Zhu, Tian, & Yan, 2020). keywords: ahp; analysis; criteria; decision; hierarchy; hierarchy process; hybrid; international; journal; performance; personnel; port; process; table; work cache: ijahp-974.pdf plain text: ijahp-974.txt item: #383 of 388 id: ijahp-978 author: Nahavandi, Bijan; Homayounfar, Mahdi; Daneshvar, Amir title: A FUZZY ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS FOR EVALUATION OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT EFFECTIVENESS IN RESEARCH CENTERS date: 2023-05-12 words: 12497 flesch: 40 summary: Nahavandi, Homayounfar, Daneshvar/A Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process for evaluation of knowledge management effectiveness in research centers International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 2 Vol 15 Issue 1 2023 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v15i1.978 Keywords: knowledge management; effectiveness; Fuzzy Set Theory (FST), AHP; research centers 1. Nahavandi, Homayounfar, Daneshvar/A Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process for evaluation of knowledge management effectiveness in research centers International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 1 Vol 15 Issue 1 2023 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v15i1.978 A FUZZY ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS FOR EVALUATION OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT EFFECTIVENESS IN RESEARCH CENTERS Bijan Nahavandi Assistant Professor of Industrial Management Faculty of Management and Economics, Science and Research Branch Islamic Azad University Tehran, Iran bijan.nahavandi@srbiau.ac.ir Mahdi Homayounfar Department of Industrial Management Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University Rasht, Iran homayounfar@iaurasht.ac.ir Amir Daneshvar Department of Information Technology Management Electronic Branch Islamic Azad University Tehran, Iran a_daneshvar@iauec.ac.ir ABSTRACT Measuring knowledge management (KM) effectiveness is a very important issue in organizations today. keywords: ahp; article; centers; criteria; daneshvar; doi; effectiveness; et al; evaluation; fuzzy; hierarchy; hierarchy process; homayounfar; issn; issue; journal; knowledge; knowledge management; management effectiveness; nahavandi; performance; process; rcs; research cache: ijahp-978.pdf plain text: ijahp-978.txt item: #384 of 388 id: ijahp-986 author: Shrestha, Ravi Raj; Acharya, Anushilan ; Karmacharya, Niroj; Sapkota, Mira; Paudyal, Binay; Basnet, Prasant ; Timilsina, Sushil; Shakya, Hitendra Dev title: APPLICATION OF AHP AND GIS FOR OPTIMAL SOLAR SITE IDENTIFICATION IN MADHESH PROVINCE, NEPAL date: 2022-12-08 words: 6454 flesch: 47 summary: The government of Nepal has declared a goal of setting up solar power plants of at least 200 MW in Madhesh Province, but the selection of optimal sites will be the decisive factor in achieving this goal. Thus, the province’s eastern region is most suitable for installing solar power plants. keywords: ahp; application; criteria; energy; gis; identification; international; land; madhesh; nepal; power; province; site cache: ijahp-986.pdf plain text: ijahp-986.txt item: #385 of 388 id: ijahp-987 author: Saaty, Rozann; Mu, Enrique title: T.L. Saaty Decision Making for Leaders Hackathon date: 2022-05-25 words: 1372 flesch: 57 summary: Microsoft was chosen as the business partner for the inaugural T.L. Saaty Hackathon. They were assigned to the same team by the program organizers at the beginning of the first day. keywords: decision; hackathon; making; saaty cache: ijahp-987.pdf plain text: ijahp-987.txt item: #386 of 388 id: ijahp-989 author: Mu, Enrique title: IJAHP Embraces Rolling Article Publication date: 2022-05-25 words: 329 flesch: 53 summary: This makes it possible to take advantage of the unique opportunities open access publication offers. 14 Issue 1 2022 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v14i1.989 IJAHP Embraces Rolling Article Publication Dear IJAHP Readers: keywords: publication cache: ijahp-989.pdf plain text: ijahp-989.txt item: #387 of 388 id: ijahp-990 author: Mu, Enrique title: 2022 Conferences Suitable for AHP/ANP Decision-Making Submissions date: 2022-05-25 words: 398 flesch: 34 summary: Wiktor Adamus of Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland is serving as a member of the scientific committee, Dr. Anna Florek-Paszkowska, Professor of the Business Department, Centrum, of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú is the conference chair, and Dr. Enrique Mu, IJAHP Editor-in-Chief, will organize the AHP/ANP session(s) and speak at the conference about IJAHP publication opportunities. IJAHP News and Events: Mu/2022 conferences suitable for AHP/ANP decision-making submissions International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 1 Vol. keywords: anp; conference cache: ijahp-990.pdf plain text: ijahp-990.txt item: #388 of 388 id: ijahp-994 author: Akman, Gülsen; Boyacı, Ali İhsan ; Kurnaz, Sinem title: SELECTING THE SUITABLE E-COMMERCE MARKETPLACE WITH NEUTROSOPHIC FUZZY AHP AND EDAS METHODS FROM SELLER'S PERSPECTIVE IN THE CONTEXT OF COVID-19 date: 2022-12-06 words: 13764 flesch: 51 summary: In this study, a framework was created using neutrosophic fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) and the Evaluation Based on Distance from Average Solution (EDAS), which are multi-criteria decision-making methods, so that retailers who want to sell via e-commerce marketplaces can choose the right e-marketplace from among the alternatives. First, the respondents were limited to Turkish companies who want to sell their products in e-commerce marketplaces. keywords: ahp; boyacı; commerce; context; covid-19; criteria; decision; edas; fuzzy; fuzzy ahp; hierarchy; international; journal; kurnaz; marketplace; methods; neutrosophic; number; perspective; process; selection; seller; table; ̌ � cache: ijahp-994.pdf plain text: ijahp-994.txt