Despite the growing importance of developing a novel business model, most previous studies on business model remain conceptual and theoretical. A paucity of empirical studies has hindered the use of the business model concept in practical purposes. Hence, this study proposes a systematic approach to new business model development (NBMD) that helps business practitioners to develop, evaluate and...

We present an approach based on linear programming (LP) that estimates the weights for a pairwise comparison matrix generated within the framework of the analytic hierarchy process. Our approach makes sense for a number of reasons, which we discuss. We apply our LP approach to several sample problems and compare our results to those produced by other, widely used methods. In addition, we extend...

Background Five years ago we began preliminary work to organize the difficult issues, associated with the six decade old confrontation between Israel and the Palestinians. With the support of a number of private foundations, we were able, on several occasions, to gather together in Pittsburgh participant groups of equal size, consisting of people who were interested in and knowledgeable about t...

In the development of E-Commerce, security has always been the core and key issue. In this paper, a new model is proposed to assist E-Commerce practitioners in the assessment of E-Commerce security. The proposedmodel is based on Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Dempster–Shafer (DS) theory of evidence. First, according to the characteristics of E-Commerce, a hierarchical structure of E-Com...

This paper summarizes the principles and methods of establishing the comprehensive evaluation index system of urban public transport development level, and analyzes how to establish the evaluation index system by using the analytic hierarchy process. Then, using the fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method to develop the public transportation in Xi'an Shaanxi China, and to find out the shortcoming...

The Analytic Hierarchy Process as an aid to decision makers has gained in popularity over the years. Recently the procedure has been generalised into the Interval Analytic Hierarchy Process. Rather than select a precise ratio for the comparisons between the alternatives offered to the decision maker an interval is proposed. One popular strategy in examining this problem is to adopt a simulation...

Selecting a location for a potential hospital often decides the success or the failure of such a facility. It is thus important to assess the locations from multiple dimensions before selecting the site. This paper focuses on the multi factor evaluation of hospital sites using Analytical Hierarchy process (AHP)and evaluates three potential rural hospital sites in India. This study considered th...

Along with the advance of scientific powers strategic of our country, all types and levels funding limit and quantity of college scientific research project have also increased constantly. It is very important to have complete, accurate and fair evaluations for university scientific research project management performance. Fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) as a qualitative, a quantitative...

Understanding the importance of the marketing competitiveness of the small and medium enterprises (SMEs) as the premise, analytic hierarchy process is used and the competitiveness of SMEs in the evaluation of the marketing model is put forward in the paper. The design of index system and evaluation model of steps are discussed, it is found that the fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method is an ef...