The analytic hierarchy process: can wash criteria be ignored?

The analytic hierarchy process: can wash criteria be ignored?

Note on "Wash criterion in analytic hierarchy process"

The paper of Finan and Hurley – published in Computers and Operations Research (2002) – was re-examined, where they discussed a seemingly contradictory phenomenon resulting from the ignoring of wash criteria in the analytic hierarchy process (AHP). With that, they raised a serious challenge to the AHP methodology. However, by reviewing their arguments and example data, analyses regarding to the...

Multi Criteria Selection of Components Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process

The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) has been successfully used in the past for the selection of components, as presented in case studies in the literature. In this paper, an empirical study using AHP to rank components is presented. The components used in the study are for data compression; each implements one of the Arithmetic Encoding (AREC), Huffman coding (HUFF), Burrows-Wheeler Transform ...

Evaluative Criteria for Aggregation Rules in the Analytic Hierarchy Process

The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) has been considerably criticized for its possible rank reversal phenomenon. Many variants of the original AHP have been proposed to preserve rank orders. The validity of the original AHP and its variants have been a subject of long-lasting debate. In this paper we propose four criteria to evaluate the validity of AHP aggregation rules and examine three typic...

Comprehensive Multi-Criteria Comparison and Ranking of Natural Gas Liquefaction Process by Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)

Several processes have been proposed for natural gas liquefaction due to the vast utilization of LNG as a reliable and relatively easy to use fuel. Even though the merits and demerits of different process have been studied, a dearth of comprehensive technical and economical comparative investigation of these methods makes further broad examination a necessity. This article is presented to addre...