IJAHP: Mu/Words from the Editor-in-Chief 

 

 International Journal of the 
Analytic Hierarchy Process 

144 Vol. 6 Issue 2 2014 

ISSN 1936-6744 
http://dx.doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v6i2.308 

WORDS FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF 

 

December 1, 2014 

 

Dear IJAHP Readers, 

 

The IJAHP editorial team is proud to release our 

second issue for 2014. This was a particularly 

busy year since our IJAHP team was 

instrumental in the success of The Symposium of 

the Analytic Hierarchy Process 2014 that took 

place in Washington, D. C. Valentina Ferretti, 

our news section editor, has prepared a brief but 

interesting report on this event. Those readers 

who did not have the opportunity to attend the 

event will be particularly interested in these 

highlights. 

 

This issue opens up with an article on the use of ANP for the selection of new retail 

locations in Italy. This is a very rigorous study by Lombardi et al, and presents useful 

ideas for the use of this methodology for any ANP-interested practitioner. The next 

article by Guerrero and Gomez-Limon proposes a value-based approach toward the 

selection of strategic projects. This article makes us think about what value is, how to 

decompose it and how to use it as project selection criteria in organizations. Jiri Franek 

follows with a review and critique of MCDA techniques in business and management. 

This serves as a useful reference about the different ways in which AHP has been used 

with business frameworks such as SWOT analysis, Porter’s Five Forces and Balanced 

Scorecard. 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. 

Finally, Rajguru et al report the results from a study that uses AHP to assess options such 

as chemical, organic and partial organic farming in the Maharashtra state in India. 

 

We have also included in this issue an essay that may be particularly useful for new 

AHP/ANP researchers. We have taken the opportunity to address the question of how to 

select a journal for publication of your research. In our experience, young researchers 

tend to be very anxious to jump at the first publication opportunity that arises without 

questioning why they want to publish in that particular journal, or even why they want to 

publish in the first place. 

 

In summary, our editorial team has worked very hard to prepare this IJAHP issue, and we 

feel confident that you will find material that will be useful and interesting for our 

AHP/ANP community. 

 

Very sincerely, 

Enrique Mu, PhD 

Editor-in-Chief