This paper describes the development of the Army Health Policy (AHP), which is a key component of the Army Human Resources Strategy (AHRS). The work on the AHP provided an opportunity for a fundamental review of the delivery of health support to the Army. The AHP will provide the strategic framework by which the Army will ensure the health of its workforce and, where appropriate, their dependen...

Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is very popular method in the field of decision-making today. While one of the most natural extensions of AHP using fuzzy theory is to employ a reciprocal matrix with fuzzy-valued entries, some of the present authors proposed the fuzzy constraint-based approach before. In this paper, we consider about weights for fuzzy constraint-based approach and propose a kin...

The article deals with the application of AHP method to the development of the ranking of Lublin and Lviv Provinces based on the condition of innovativeness in companies. The final results of a survey are presented. A multi-criterion analysis in hierarchical order compatible with AHP method is adopted. In order to decide on the preferences of compared variants, the distance between linguistic v...

Neutron diffraction profiles for cellulose from different sources were compared before and after alkaline hydrogen peroxide (AHP) treatment. It was found that AHP treatment did not cause detectable changes in the structure of highly polymerized cellulose. In measurements on wheat straw, peaks were observed at the angles characteristic of pure cellulose. Changes, with AHP treatment, of the inten...

AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) has been widely used in decision making techniques. However, the results from AHP often lose reliability because the comparison matrix does not always have sufficient consistency. In these cases, fuzzy representation for weighting activities using results from a sensitivity analysis is useful. In this paper, we present alternative overall weights by employing so...

In this paper, we propose an application of the Analytic Hierarchy Process to survey research to overcome the deficiency of traditional questionnaire methods. The procedure of the AHP results in not only the identification of the most important alternative but also the preference of all alternatives for each respondent. Therefore, by applying the AHP to survey questionnaire, eliciting responden...

The purpose of this paper is to illustrate how the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) can be applied to those situations in higher education where a group must evaluate a large number of alternatives. The suggested approach is illustrated using a case study that considers the evaluation of academic research papers at Villanova University. Following the discussion of this successful case study, a ...

In this article, by using fuzzy AHP and TOPSIS technique we propose a new method for project selection problem. After reviewing four common methods of comparing alternatives investment (net present value, rate of return, benefit cost analysis and payback period) we use them as criteria in AHP tree. In this methodology by utilizing improved Analytical Hierarchy Process by Fuzzy set theory, first...

Supplier selection is one of the most crucial activities performed by the organizations because of its strategic importance. A supplier selection problem is a multiobjective problem involving both quantitative and qualitative criteria. Over the years a number of quantitative approaches have been applied to supplier selection problems. Although the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) has previously...

SCM (supply chain management) emphasizes on the strategic cooperative relationship between core enterprise and enterprise alliance. The selection of strategic partners is an important decision-making problem in SCM and is the key to successful SCM. In this paper, aiming for the supplier selection problem, the author discusses a class of AHP (analytical hierarchy process) technique—simulation ap...