In this paper, we propose an application of the Analytic Hierarchy Process to survey research to overcome the deficiency of traditional questionnaire methods. The procedure of the AHP results in not only the identification of the most important alternative but also the preference of all alternatives for each respondent. Therefore, by applying the AHP to survey questionnaire, eliciting responden...

The purpose of this paper is to illustrate how the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) can be applied to those situations in higher education where a group must evaluate a large number of alternatives. The suggested approach is illustrated using a case study that considers the evaluation of academic research papers at Villanova University. Following the discussion of this successful case study, a ...

This study is a survey research. The population of the study was all specialists who have enough data about ways of sustainability rice cultivars that they were identified and studied through Non-probability sampling (purposeful and snowball). To determine the validity of the questionnaire, face and content validity was used, and, to assess the reliability, inconsistency coefficient was used. I...

here, we propose a fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (fahp) method to evaluate the alternatives of enterprise resource planning (erp) system. the fuzzy ahp approach allows the users get values more accurately to model the vagueness which changes according subjective ideas in the decision-making environment for erp system selection problem. therefore, fuzzy ahp method is used to obtain firm decis...

One of important problems in supply chains management is supplier selection. In a company, there are massive data from various departments so that extracting knowledge from the company’s data is too complicated. Many researchers have solved this problem by some methods like fuzzy set theory, goal programming, multi objective programming, the liner programming, mixed integer programming, analyti...

Selection of qualified persons suitable for different organization functions is a key success factor for an organization. The complexity and importance of the problem call for analytical methods rather than intuitive decisions. The personnel selection problem requires the application of multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) methods for robust recruitment. This paper has to objectives; first to ...

We propose a utility revision mechanism for persuasion among Java-based agents in the Group Choice Design Support System (GCDSS). The GCDSS helps a group decision to make a reasonable choice from alternatives. In the GCDSS, agents negotiate with each other on behalf of their users. The GCDSS is written in the Java language with IBM's Aglets Software Development Kit (ASDK). By using the Java lan...