Architecting the distributed software applications is a complex design activity. The selection of a best design among number of design alternatives is an important activity. To satisfy various the stakeholders’ functional and non-functional requirements of a particular application, there is a need to take a number of decisions. This problem has become the multiple decision making problem. Analy...

This study project is related to resource allocation of contract funds for the U.S.DOT/Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Capital Project Management Oversight (CPMO) Program. Contract proposals exceed the budget cap that FTA is allowed to obligate for oversight consultants in 15 regions in the U.S. An Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) was used for developing a resource allocation methodology...

Our paper makes use of the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) in order to derive the willingness to pay (WTP) for complex goods with a range of attributes and attribute levels. Weights obtained from the AHP are used to decompose the aggregate WTP obtained from Contingent Valuation (CV) in a hypothetical simulated market. The empirical analysis uses consumer-level questionnaires to elicit inform...

The purpose of this paper is to propose a case of using expert decision-making of analytical hierarchy process (AHP) method to finding the best e-commerce platform. This study to finding five important factors are shop fee, annual fee, publication costs, transaction costs and security by vendors, merchants and customers; after using expert questionnaires to choice four shopping platforms (yahoo...

The objective of this research work was to investigate the effect of the inclusion of visual cues in the decision making process when using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). An important aspect of this research was to investigate the sensitivity of consistency as measured by AHP when visual cues were incorporated An experiment was designed in the application area of Speech Pathology. The re...

There are many mechanical and/or electrical energy storage devices nowadays which can be mounted on standard bicycles. The current trend regarding bicycle is to develop and improve electronic systems that ease transportation. However, this paper shows the design process of a purely device, with no components, instead aims entertain user, producing stimulus related speed physical exertion. devic...