Sand and gravel are important raw materials which are needed for many civil engineering projects. Due to economic reasons, sand and gravel pits are frequently located in the periphery of metropolitan areas which are often subject to competing land-use interests. As a contribution to land-use conflict solving, the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is applied within a Geo-Information-System (GIS) ...

A lot of research has been devoted to the critical analysis of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), from various perspectives. However, as far as we know, no one has addressed a fundamental problem, discussed in this paper, concerning the meaning of the priority vector derived from the principal eigenvalue method used in AHP. The role of AHP’s consistency ratio is also analysed. 2006 Elsevier ...

To solve the uncertainty and complexity problems in hazardous chemical storage risk assessment, this paper constructs the evaluation index system and proposed the risk assessment model based on AHP-fuzzy comprehensive evaluation approach, which organically integrate the quantitative and the objectively of the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and the inclusive advantage of fuzzy comprehensive ev...

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 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...

Warnet Edelweiss (Edelweiss internet cafe) is a type of business that provides services and network connections, the main provided to customers are browsing games. Currently, game very liked by several groups ranging from adults, teenagers children. The phenomenon this certainly has positive negative impacts for its users, especially children who currently dominate world. There needs be good ap...

In this paper, we present an extension of the multi-criteria decision making based on the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) which incorporates uncertain knowledge matrices for generating basic belief assignments (bba’s). The combination of priority vectors corresponding to bba’s related to each (sub)-criterion is performed using the Proportional Conflict Redistribution rule no. 5 proposed in Dez...

In this paper, we present an extension of the multicriteria decision making based on the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) which incorporates uncertain knowledge matrices for generating basic belief assignments (bba’s). The combination of priority vectors corresponding to bba’s related to each (sub)criterion is performed using the Proportional Conflict Redistribution rule no. 5 proposed in Dezer...

BACKGROUND Patient involvement is widely acknowledged to be a valuable component in health technology assessment (HTA) and healthcare decision making. However, quantitative approaches to ascertain patients' preferences for treatment endpoints are not yet established. The objective of this study is to introduce the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) as a preference elicitation method in HTA. Based...

The many feasible alternatives and conflicting objectives make equipment selection in materials handling a complicated task. This paper presents utilizing Monte Carlo (MC) simulation combined with the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to evaluate and select the most appropriate Material Handling Equipment (MHE). The proposed hybrid model was built on the base of material handling equation to ide...