Spatial decision-making problems, such as site selection, require appropriate means for handling multiple socioeconomic factors while considering physical suitability. Traditional decision support techniques lack the ability to simultaneously take into account these factors and conditions. Similarly, geographic information systems, while recognized as useful decision support technologies, do no...

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...

In order to resolve cases related to an alternative selection problems (MADM problems), various methods have been applied. Many methods are used to solve the MADM problems, which sometimes give different results. To resolve MADM problem, we can use AHP and TOPSIS methods. The advantages of AHP method are it can provide solutions through the analysis of quantitative and qualitative decision. In ...

In this paper we consider the problem of finding a graph separator of a given size that decomposes the graph into the maximum number of connected components. We present the picture of the computational complexity and the approximability of this problem for several natural classes of graphs. We first provide an overview of the hardness of approximation of this problem, which stems mainly from it...

Pyramidal neurons in the piriform cortex from olfactory-discrimination-trained rats have reduced postburst afterhyperpolarization (AHP), for 3 days after learning, and are thus more excitable during this period. Such AHP reduction is caused by decreased conductance of one or more of the calcium-dependent potassium currents, I(AHP) and sI(AHP), that mediate the medium and slow AHPs. In this stud...

Radiosity is a method to compute the global illumination of a scene characterized by high computational requirements. To reduce this complexity, hierarchical radiosity decomposes the scene into a hierarchy of patches and computes the light exchange at different levels, according to the distance between patches and/or to the amount of light emitted by the patches. A distributed memory implementa...

Abstract: This work presents Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) method available in Geographic Information System (GIS) to identify and classify the Penang Island according to the grade of present or potential danger of land failure happening. Landslide susceptibility zonation map has been generated by considering seven factors. Sensitivity analysis was performed in detail by varying the contri...

The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is a structured decision making support tool that has been used by the Ministry of Defence and DSTA for evaluating weapon systems and platforms. Since 2005, AHP has also been adopted in the evaluation of several large-scale non-defence government tenders. As the Singapore Armed Forces transforms into a Third Generation fighting force, new technologies and co...