In real-life multicriteria decision making (MCDM) problems, the evaluations against some criteria are often missing, inaccurate, and even uncertain, but the existing theories and models cannot handle such evaluations well. To address the issue, this paper extends the Dempster–Shafer (DS)/analytic hierarchy process (DS/AHP) approach of MCDM to handle three types of ambiguous evaluations: missing...

The selection of appropriate work center is one of the most critical decision in process planning of a successful production environment. In this study, a user-friendly decision support system is proposed for work center selection. This system guides the decision-maker in selecting work-center from available work-centers via effective algorithms, such as the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). .T...

A complicated decision-making problem such as environmental impact assessment usually requires both quantitative and qualitative decision support tools to collaborate for reaping their benefits concurrently. Although the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) has been widely used in EIA, it is hardly to address the dependence issue among environmental factors and reflect the subjectivity between scie...

In the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP/ANP), the local preference values v1p,v2p,...,vnp of n alternatives A1,A2,...,An with respect to a criterion Cp are measured in ratio scale (Saaty, 2006). Estimated values for the relative ratios vip/vjp (i,j=1,2,...,n) of the local preference values are elicited directly from decision maker (DM) via ratio-scaled pairwise comparisons. These estimated value...

This paper considers Interval Analytic Hierarchy Process (Interval AHP) in group decision making for encouraging communication. Interval AHP is suitable method to handle subjective judgments since the induced results are intervals which can include uncertainty of given information. The decision makers’ opinions can be aggregated at some stages of decision making process to reach consensus. One ...

In the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) the decision maker makes comparisons between pairs of attributes or alternatives. In real applications the comparisons are subject to judgmental errors. Many AHP-matrices reported in the literature are found to be such that the logarithm of the comparison ratio can be suÆciently well modeled by a normal distribution with a constant variance. On the basis ...

In this paper, we introduce a framework to guide decision makers evaluating information security policy performance. It is motivated by lack of adequate decision making mechanism with broader scopes and easy to use for the decision makers. The framework, which adopts Analytic hierarchy Process (AHP) methodology, is developed into a four level hierarchy (goal, criteria, sub-criteria, and alterna...

This research paper aims to give a new dimension to the decision maker by proposing a hybrid model of analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and preference ranking organisation method for enrichment evaluation (PROMETHEE) in 3PL selection. It uses an integrated approach of AHP-PROMTHEE as a selection methodology to select an efficient and requisite 3PL firm for a manufacturer. A relatively new and us...