An overview of the analytic hierarchy process and its applications

LG Vargas - European journal of operational research, 1990 - Elsevier
The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is a theory of measurement for dealing with
quantifiable and/or intangible criteria that has found rich applications in decision theory …

How to make a decision: the analytic hierarchy process

TL Saaty - European journal of operational research, 1990 - Elsevier
This paper serves as an introduction to the Analytic Hierarchy Process—A multicriteria
decision making approach in which factors are arranged in a hierarchic structure. The …

Decision making with the analytic hierarchy process

TL Saaty - International journal of services sciences, 2008 - inderscienceonline.com
Decisions involve many intangibles that need to be traded off. To do that, they have to be
measured along side tangibles whose measurements must also be evaluated as to, how …

Remarks on the analytic hierarchy process

JS Dyer - Management science, 1990 - pubsonline.informs.org
The analytic hierarchy process (AHP) is flawed as a procedure for ranking alternatives in
that the rankings produced by this procedure are arbitrary. This paper provides a brief …

Review of the main developments in the analytic hierarchy process

A Ishizaka, A Labib - Expert systems with applications, 2011 - Elsevier
In this paper the authors review the developments of the analytic hierarchy process (AHP)
since its inception. The focus of this paper is a neutral review on the methodological …

Using the analytic hierarchy process in evaluating decision alternatives

P Cabała - Operations research and decisions, 2010 - infona.pl
In this paper the method of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is described. At the
beginning the general assumptions of the method are characterized and discussed. These …

A probabilistic interpretation of the final rankings in AHP

ES Rosenbloom - European Journal of Operational Research, 1997 - Elsevier
The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) has become a popular and practical tool for dealing
with complex decision problems. It provides a ranking for the decision alternatives. This …

Decision making with the analytic hierarchy process

TL SAATY - 2002 - sid.ir
In this paper, an introduction is given to the decision-making theory, the Analytic Hierarchy
Process (AHP). In the AHP, a decision hierarchy is constructed with a goal, criteria and …

Response to Holder's comments on the analytic hierarchy process

TL Saaty - Journal of the Operational Research Society, 1991 - Taylor & Francis
Now let us talk about why a power scale is not really desirable. In the paired comparison
approach of the AHP one estimates ratios by using a fundamental scale of absolute …

A unified approach to AHP with linking pins

B Schoner, WC Wedley, EU Choo - European Journal of Operational …, 1993 - Elsevier
Recent work demonstrates the need for paired comparison estimates of criteria in the
Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to follow prescribed rules, and for the subsequent analysis …