lack of awareness of the critical factors involved in production of plants and sometimes, the cultivation of plants in areas unsusceptible to plant, can increase the amount of chemical fertilizer consumption in order to compensate the subsequent reduction of plant yield. this would increase environmental pollution. thus, identifying of suitable areas where could supply plants initial needs of t...

data mining is a powerful tool for firms to extract knowledge from their customers’ transaction data. one of the useful applications of data mining is segmentation. segmentation is an effective tool for managers to make right marketing strategies for right customer segments. in this study we have segmented retailers of a hygienic manufacture. nowadays all manufactures do understand that for sta...

this research has done in order to identifying the human resource performance key indicator; qom province electricity distribution company with regard to integrated balanced scorecard approach of human resource and analytic hierarchy process .the research method of the article is descriptive and library field data collecting. balanced scorecard (bscj translated the company visions and strategie...

Recently, Calantone, Di Benedetto, and Schmidt [2] presented an Analytic Hierarchy Process (Am) modeling approach to new product screening. The illustration of this approach is an example of a decision support model that seeks to aid managers in selecting new product ideas to pursue. In this paper we improve upon this initial AHP model using a "fuzzy" mathematical application. This use of fuzzy...

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...

Title of thesis: TWO APPLICATIONS INVOLVING THE ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS Brian David Alford, Master of Science, 2004 Thesis directed by: Professor Bruce Golden Department of Decision and Information Technologies The analytic hierarchy process (AHP) is a popular tool used in decision making for ranking alternatives based on quantitative and qualitative criteria. In this thesis, we investigate ...

This progress report outlines the main reasons why Saaty’s Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP, see [17] and [18]) is not a valid methodology.

Strategic decision analysis on Supply Chain Management (SCM) involves tangible and intangible factors and it needs to be evaluated by interdependent multiple criteria. Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is a practical and popular decision-making tool for SCM. Interdependency among criteria becomes a source of difficulty in directly applying AHP to various SCM decision problems. Hence, the manager...