The analytic hierarchy process (AHP) has been applied in many fields and especially to complex engineering problems and applications. The AHP is capable of structuring decision problems and finding mathematically determined judgments built on knowledge and experience. This suggests that AHP should prove useful in agile software development where complex decisions occur routinely. In this paper,...

Fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (AHP) has been widely used for a variety of applications such as supplier selection, customer requirements assessment and the like. The vast majority of the applications, however, were found avoiding the use of sophisticated approaches for fuzzy AHP such as fuzzy least squares method while using a simple extent analysis for the sake of simplicity. The extent ana...

In order to survive in today's competitive world, organizations are looking to increase their efficiency and effectiveness. Therefore, they should focus on inputs that are more important than the rest of the inputs in their success. This paper aimed at ranking 7Ms (Management, Man power, Marketing, Material, Machinery, Methods and Money) and their sub-criteria of production in Iran. By improvin...

Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) analysis is a popular tool which examines strengths and weaknesses (internal factors) of an organization or industry together with opportunities and threats (external factors) of the marketplace environment. SWOT analysis is the best method to provide the basic outline to take strategic decisions. In this study, we have integrated SWOT ana...

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In this paper, an extension of the belief Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method is proposed, based on the belief function framework. It takes into account the fact that the pair-wise comparison between criteria and alternatives may be uncertain and imprecise. Therefore, it introduces a new way to cope with expert judgments. Thus to express his preferences, the decision maker is allowed to use...

Crime and disorder reduction (CDR) research analysts („analysts‟) in a UK local authority have generated candidate improvements for enhancing geovisualization prototypes designed using humancentred methods (Lloyd et al., 2007; Lloyd et al., 2008). Prioritising these is an important process and may require modification to established decision support techniques due to the nature of geovisualizat...

There are four directions for developing the proposed areas of Chaohu City in China and it is considered significant to prioritise the development choice among the four proposed directions or plans. This paper is an application of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) in deciding the urban land use development of Chaohu City. We first analyse a variety of factors related to decision of land use,...

Making Decision in non-structured problems is not a simple task. For this reason, decision makers use Decision Support Systems (DSS). These kinds of systems implement techniques and algorithms in order to improve the decision process. Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is one of these techniques which yields a ranking scale of alternatives based on criteria and alternative matrices. These matrice...