Vendor selection problem is believed to be a Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) problem which has been a growing research area since past few decades. Several effective techniques have already been proposed by researchers and practitioners to evaluate the suppliers/vendors. Among these Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is assumed to be the mostly exploited method due to its strong ability of ...

Teaching quality is the lifeblood of college survival and development, and improving the teaching quality is the eternal theme of teaching management. To establish teaching quality monitoring system is an important measure to guarantee improvement of the teaching quality. And the teaching quality evaluation is an effective way to improve the teaching quality. By reasonable teaching evaluation, ...

decision makers in allocating limited resources to strategic investment such as marketing, positioning, and so on. In general , AHP uses information from the literature and empirical experiences to define a general structure, and implements pairwise comparison information from decision makers to model decision making. Satty's (1980) AHP is a pairwise comparison procedure designed to capture rel...

Tom Saaty developed the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) more than 25 years ago. Since then, AHP has been used by decision makers all over the world to model problems in diverse areas such as conflict analysis, marketing, R&D management, strategic planning, and public policy. Thousands of AHP papers have been published, documenting the wide applicability of the approach in ranking, selecting, e...

The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) has been considerably criticized for its possible rank reversal phenomenon. Many variants of the original AHP have been proposed to preserve rank orders. The validity of the original AHP and its variants have been a subject of long-lasting debate. In this paper we propose four criteria to evaluate the validity of AHP aggregation rules and examine three typic...

A comparison is made between the most commonly used decision-making method (AHP), and two methods developed by the authors (APM and CSM). It is shown that the newly developed methods do not change the correlations and types of inequalities between the global priorities of the alternatives when the number of alternatives changes. This differentiates them from the AHP, which does change them. Als...

Any decision is closely linked to the quality and availability of information. Innovative methodologies are proposed to help decisions based on imperfect information provided by more or less reliable and conflicting sources in uncertain context. These methods combine new uncertainty theories and multicriteria decision making. The ER-MCDA methodology associates the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AH...

This paper considers Interval Analytic Hierarchy Process (Interval AHP) in group decision making for encouraging communication. Interval AHP is suitable method to handle subjective judgments since the induced results are intervals which can include uncertainty of given information. The decision makers’ opinions can be aggregated at some stages of decision making process to reach consensus. One ...