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...

This paper aims at integrating data envelopment analysis (DEA) and analytic hierarchy process (AHP) to evaluate the economic development achieved by local governments in China. Since most similar evaluations are multi-objection problems, which both DEA and AHP are capable of solving, the integration of these two approaches is shown to be even more powerful. The proposed integrated DEA/AHP model...

This study proposes some issues to solve the Incomplete Linguistic Preference Relations under Multi-Criteria Decision Making. The proposed method has simple calculation and can speed up the process of comparison and selection of alternative. Experts obtain the matrix by choosing a finite and fixed set of alternatives and perform a pairwise comparison based on their different preferences and kno...

A landslide susceptibility map plays an essential role in urban and rural planning. The main purpose of this study is to establish a variable-weighted linear combination model (VWLC) and assess its potential for landslide susceptibility mapping. Firstly, different objective methods are employed for data processing rather than the frequently-used subjective judgments: K-means clustering is used ...

Firstly, from the perspective of optimizing sports industry, four factors of judging schemes are obtained. They are the number of employees in the sports industry, its resources, the soundness of relevant policies and its impacts on the economy. Then the analytical hierarchy research is conducted. With the acceleration of China’s new-type urbanization, the demand for sports facilities in new-ty...

We prove that the isomorphism problem for torsion-free Abelian groups is as complicated as any isomorphism problem could be in terms of the analytical hierarchy, namely Σ1 complete.

We investigate the Church–Kalmár–Kreisel–Turing Theses concerning theoretical (necessary) limitations of future computers and of deductive sciences, in view of recent results of classical general relativity theory. We argue that (i) there are several distinguished Church–Turing-type Theses (not only one) and (ii) validity of some of these theses depend on the background physical theory we choos...

background: in today's world, survival of any organization depends on its competitiveness and suitable decisions against environmental changes.  one of the effective methods in organizations is to use performance evaluation systems to determine weak points to be improved and strengths to be reinforced. performance evaluation and management not only help organizations to increase competitiveness...

The significance of technology is all the time growing with the global and dynamic changes such as trade liberalization, networking, knowledge and service economies, environmental control and many emerging technologies. Therefore, from the 1970’s to the 1990’s, the competitive strategies in manufacturing have changed dramatically from focused to multifocused priorities. /17/, /5/, /12/, /13/ an...

Sustainability has gained tremendous importance and has been an important issue both for policy makers and practitioners. Realizing that the resources on the earth are limited, renewable energy alternatives have flourished and started to replace the conventional energy alternatives. Energy planning using different energy alternatives, for the long term becomes a vital decision. In this study, f...