Multi Criteria Decision Making and the Analytic Hierarchy Process

1990 ◽  
pp. 295-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernest H. Forman
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy Process ◽  
Multi Criteria Decision Making ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
The Analytic Hierarchy Process ◽  
Hierarchy Process

Some Conflicting Results in the Analytic Hierarchy Process

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (02) ◽  
pp. 465-486 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ardalan Bafahm ◽  
Minghe Sun
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy Process ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Unexpected Result ◽  
Multi Criteria Decision Making ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Preference Relations ◽  
The Analytic Hierarchy Process ◽  
Hierarchy Process

The analytic hierarchy process (AHP) has been believed to be one of the most pragmatic and widely accepted methods for multi-criteria decision making. However, there have been various criticisms of this method within the last four decades. In this study, the results of AHP contradicting common expectations are examined for both the distributive and ideal modes. Specifically, conflicting priorities, conflicting decisions, and conflicting preference relations are investigated. A decision-making scenario is used throughout the paper and an illustrative example constructed from the decision-making scenario is provided to demonstrate each of the conflicting results recommended by AHP. With a parametric formulation of each unexpected result, the possibility of unexpected results of AHP is generalized irrespective of applying the distributive or ideal mode. The logic and causes of these contradictions are also analyzed. This study shows that AHP is not always reliable, and could lead the decision makers towards incorrect decisions.

scholarly journals Evaluating Museum Virtual Tours: The Case Study of Italy

Information ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katerina Kabassi ◽  
Alessia Amelio ◽  
Vasileios Komianos ◽  
Konstantinos Oikonomou
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy Process ◽  
Fuzzy Topsis ◽  
Multi Criteria Decision Making ◽  
Ideal Solution ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Analytic Hierarchy Process ◽  
Hierarchy Process

Virtual tours in museums are an ideal solution for those that are not able to visit a museum or those who want to have a small taste of what is presented in the museum before their visit. However, these tours often encounter severe problems while users interact with them. In order to check the status of virtual tours of museums, we present the implementation of an evaluation experiment that uses a combination of two multi-criteria decision making theories, namely the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and the fuzzy technique for order of preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS). AHP has been used for the estimation of the weights of the heuristics and fuzzy TOPSIS has been used for the evaluation of virtual tours of museums. This paper presents the exact steps that have to be followed in order to implement such an experiment and run an example experiment for virtual tours of Italian museums.

Comparison among Original AHP, Ideal AHP and Moderate AHP Models

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
pp. 40 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Marimuthu ◽  
G. Ramesh
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy Process ◽  
Decision Model ◽  
Pairwise Comparisons ◽  
Multi Criteria Decision Making ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
The Analytic Hierarchy Process ◽  
Hierarchy Process

Decisions always involve the getting the best solution, selecting the suitable experiments, most appropriate judgments, taking the quality results etc., using some techniques.  Every decision making can be considered as the choice from the set of alternatives based on a set of criteria.  The analytic hierarchy process (AHP) is a multi-criteria decision making and is dealing with decision making problems through pairwise comparisons.  This paper is concerned with the moderate AHP decision model is always same as the original AHP decision model.  It does not violate the rule itself.

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