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...

Successful strategic decisions provide the appropriate operational actions for the right markets at the correct time. Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) analysis is a generally used tool which examines strengths and weaknesses of organization or industry together with opportunities and threats of the marketplace environment. SWOT framework provides the basic outline in whic...

In this article, by using fuzzy AHP and TOPSIS technique we propose a new method for project selection problem. After reviewing four common methods of comparing alternatives investment (net present value, rate of return, benefit cost analysis and payback period) we use them as criteria in AHP tree. In this methodology by utilizing improved Analytical Hierarchy Process by Fuzzy set theory, first...

SCM (supply chain management) emphasizes on the strategic cooperative relationship between core enterprise and enterprise alliance. The selection of strategic partners is an important decision-making problem in SCM and is the key to successful SCM. In this paper, aiming for the supplier selection problem, the author discusses a class of AHP (analytical hierarchy process) technique—simulation ap...

The Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) idealistically assumes the independence of the criteria which are often interrelated, conflicting or can be traded-off. It is, therefore, proposed that AHP could be extended by applying fuzzy logic to adequately incorporate the different relationships that may exist among the criteria. It is shown that the conventional and consistent fuzzy approaches could...

The data envelopment analytical hierarchy process (DEAHP) is a type of the analytical hierarchy process (AHP), which used the concept of data envelopment analysis (DEA) for generating LW from the judgment matrices and aggregating them to be final weight (FW) in AHP. In general, the judgment scales in AHP is built based on decision maker. It is unrealistic to expect that the decision maker has c...