IJAHP: Mu/IJAHP in 2018 

 

 
 
 

International Journal of the 

Analytic Hierarchy Process 

311 Vol. 10 Issue 3 2018 

ISSN 1936-6744 
https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v10i3.629 

 

IJAHP in 2018 

 

 
 

Dear IJAHP Reader: 

 

Welcome to our third and last issue in 2018!  This year has been marked by several important 

changes in our journal and the AHP/ANP community at large. Most important, this is the first 

year we are indexed by SCOPUS, signaling a new maturity stage in our journal. This should 

make submissions to IJAHP more appealing for the academic community at large. Also, the 

International Symposium of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (ISAHP)’s focus theme this year was 

a remembrance of Tom Saaty and his legacy. Many representative members of our AHP/ANP 

worldwide community got together in Hong Kong to celebrate Tom’s legacy and contribution to 

decision-making. It was an event to remember!   

 

Several AHP/ANP papers were presented at INFORMS 2018 and our news editor, Valentina 

Ferretti, provides a thorough report on that in our current issue.  This issue also contains four 

regular articles related to the ethical evaluation of care attendance in hospitals, the prioritization 

of cities in terms of liveability according to Maqasid al-Shariah indicators, a framework for local 

governments in Japan to evaluate projects based on outcomes and using AHP to evaluate the 

performance of Middle East Airlines. This IJAHP issue includes three additional articles related 

to our special topic on Fuzzy AHP. I will let Cengiz Kahraman, guest editor for this special topic, 

introduce the papers in this section. 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.  

 

Finally, the upcoming 25
th
 International Conference on Decision Making (MCDM 2019) meeting 

in Istanbul, Turkey will have several AHP/ANP presentations and panels and for this reason we 

have invited Ilker Topcu, general chair of the event, to announce these events in a news article. 

Furthermore, the Creative Decisions Foundation (CDF) has agreed to support a limited number of 

students, Ph. D. candidates, post-docs, and young researchers to attend MCDM 2019 via pledging 

to donate their registration fees to allow them present their studies in the conference. There will 

also be an opportunity to submit their manuscripts for publication in our journal. 

 

Enjoy the issue, 

Happy Holidays! 

 
Enrique Mu, PhD 

IJAHP, Editor-in-Chief