MAS 2021 and INFORMS both have sessions discussing the use of AHP/ANP.

The Analytic Network Process (ANP) is a generalization of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). The basic structure is an influence network of clusters and nodes contained within the clusters. Priorities are established in the same way they are in the AHP using pairwise comparisons and judgment. Many decision problems cannot be structured hierarchically because they involve the interaction and ...

AHP is a method for ranking decision alternatives and selecting the best one when the decision maker has multiple criteria (Taylor, 2004). In evaluation n competing alternatives A1, A2,...,An under a given criterion, it is natural to use the framework of pair-wise comparison by n × n square matrix from which a set of preference values for the alternatives is derived. Many methods for estimating...

This paper presents a new methodology based on AHP and ANP (Saaty, 1980, 1996) to estimate the value and transfer fees of professional football players. The paper extends the AHP multicriteria methodology proposed by Moreno-Jiménez et al. (2010) for estimating the value of these sportsmen. The new approach multiplicatively combines the (intrinsic) value of the player (estimated by means of AHP ...

This paper shows that the usual multiplicative synthesis of alternative priorities for benefits, opportunities, costs and risks, obtained from separate Analytic Hierarchy or Network models, can be ambiguous. The ratio of benefit and opportunity priorities to cost and risk priorities can be misleading when assessing the profitability of a project. The same holds for their additive synthesis, alt...

A faculty-course-time slot assignment problem is studied. The multiobjective 0-1 linear programming model considering both the administration’s and instructors’ preferences is developed and a demonstrative example is included. Both modeling and solving such problems are difficult tasks due to the size, the varied nature, and conflicting objectives of the problems. The difficulty increases becau...

Since establishing the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015, assessment of sustainability performance existing and future infrastructures has been spotlight scientific community. This is because construction sector essential for promoting social welfare economic development countries, but also one main environmental stressors to date. However, assessing infrastructure throughout its life cycle...

This paper deals with addition besides deletion of indifferent or wash criteria on which the alternatives have equal performance in the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) against the misguided argument as shortcoming of the AHP. In such case, it is noted that careful attention and a correct approach are required in order not to be led towards a wrong decision with rank reversal when composing pri...