The analytic network process (ANP) is a relatively new multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) method which can be used to solve supplier selection problem. Because there are different degrees of influence among the criteria, using ANP average method (equal cluster-weighted) to obtain the weighted supermatrix may be inexact. This paper uses an effective solution based on a combined ANP and the de...

One way to validate a scientific theory is to show that the results predicted by the theory give correct answers; that is, that they match known results. In the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) this usually means finding examples with measures in an already known scale. To validate AHP priority vectors against measures from known scales the measures must first be normalized by dividing by their...

Abstract The close relationship between water and poverty has been proven in several types of research. Water Poverty Index is an interdisciplinary approach for quantifying the socioeconomic aspects scarcity. enhanced (eWPI) aggregated five components: Resources, Access, Capacity, Use, Environment a Pressure-State-Response framework. In this research, eWPI computed on two scales: four community...

this paper presents a multi-attribute decision-making model to rank and select the best zones of the city of tehran in order to add new emergency services. the purpose of this decision-making problem is to prioritize the zones having a higher need to emergency services, so that the emergency services to people in different zones get optimized. a multi-criteria decision making model is presented...

Previously, we proposed an approach for corporate decision making with self-organizing patent maps labeled by technical terms and AHP. First, we extracted keywords by text mining to transform patent documents into feature vectors of the companies. Second, we inputted the feature matrix of technical terms and company names into self-organizing maps to create patent maps labeled by the technical ...

Managing natural resource lands requires social, as well as biophysical, considerations. Unfortunately, it is extremely difficult to accurately assess and quantify changing social preferences, and to aggregate conflicting opinions held by diverse social groups. The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) provides a systematic, explicit, rigorous, and robust mechanism for eliciting and quantifying subj...