IJAHP: 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.  

 

The conference attracted 261 participants from five continents and 39 countries, and 

encompassed a wide variety of topics. Among the sessions at the conference, 12 were in 

the AHP/ANP stream. In addition, three special sessions, two tutorials, one invited 

parallel session, and six contributed parallel sessions were all AHP/ANP related. 

 

The Creative Decisions Foundation (CDF) generously provided 21 grants to participants 

from 13 countries who had either recently received their PhDs or were PhD students who 

had prepared works on the AHP/ANP. The wide variety of topics is reflected in the 

papers selected for the IJAHP special topics section. These papers went through a set of 

reviews and three were selected for publication. The first study in this special issue is an 

application for soil erosion management, while the second is in the healthcare field, and 

the final one is an assessment of real-estate investments. 

 

In summary, these papers represent the outstanding work from MCDM2019, and we are 

certain they will constitute good AHP/ANP references for IJAHP readers. 

 

 

  

Ilker Topcu 

Professor 

Istanbul Technical University 

Department of Industrial Engineering 

ilker.topcu@itu.edu.tr 

Ozay Ozaydin 

Assistant Professor 

Dogus University 

Department of Industrial Engineering 

oozaydin@dogus.edu.tr