The inconsistency of judgments in the fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is a crucial issue. To make the appropriate decision, the inconsistency in decision maker's (DM) judgments needs to be eliminated or reduced. This paper proposes two mathematical models to deal with inconsistency in Fuzzy AHP. In the first model, the DM's judgments are modified where the preference order of the DM's ju...

Decision-making models often deal with problems that involve multiple criteria analysis in order to assess alternatives in various decision-making settings. On the basis of a systematic process, the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) has recently been recognized as a proven decision-making tool in a wide variety of fields. However, new methods to cope with evolving or scaled problems are emerging...

The aim of this article is to determine how to select raw material supply options for paper making factory. The decision-making is examined within the framework of benefits, opportunities, costs, and risks (BOCR). A hierarchy is used to prioritize the BOCR themselves are prioritized using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) ratings approach. A control hierarchy is then created and prioritized ...

Tom Saaty developed the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) more than 25 years ago. Since then, AHP has been used by decision makers all over the world to model problems in diverse areas such as conflict analysis, marketing, R&D management, strategic planning, and public policy. Thousands of AHP papers have been published, documenting the wide applicability of the approach in ranking, selecting, e...

-Need of robust multi criteria decision making techniques are becoming essential in day today life for decision makers to make appropriate decisions. This paper attempts to explore robustness through rank reversal properties of the Data Envelopment Analytic Hierarchy Process (DEAHP) in decision making. DEAHP uses the principles of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to generate the local weights of...

this paper proposes a method for ranking decision making units (dmus) using some of the multiple criteria decision making / multiple attribute decision making          (mcdm /madm) techniques, namely, interval analytic hierarchy process (iahp)          and the technique for order preference by similarity to an ideal solution (topsis).          since the efficiency score of unity is assigned to ...

The analytic hierarchy process (AHP) is used as a modelling and solution tool for multicriteria decision making. The AHP breaks a problem down and then aggregates the solutions of all the subproblems into a conclusion. By breaking it down, the AHP utilizes the human ability to make sound judgements about small problems. (see Saaty 1991 and Saaty 1996.) The most creative part of decision making ...

Fuzzy AHP is often used in multi-criteria decision analysis. In this paper we consider an example given by Deng [I] and in particular the method used to approximate the fuzzy principle eigenvector of the fuzzy pairwise comparison matrices. We show Nigel Steele Computational Intelligence Group, School of Mathematical and Information Sciences, Coventry University, Priory Street, Coventry. CV1 5FB...