Content Suggestion for Mobile Applications to Facilitate Student Life in Technical Universities

Focus Groups ◽

Mobile Applications ◽

Human Life ◽

Student Life ◽

Student Expectations ◽

Analytic Hierarchy ◽

Customer Expectations ◽

Life Education ◽

All sorts of products, technologies, and devices are obsoleted more quickly than ever nowadays. Special, mobile applications, which make human life easier in a lot of ways, should always be up to date to avoid falling into disfavor. Thus, they need to keep pace with customer expectations. This study aims to present a way to offer content suggestions for university mobile applications. For this purpose, two focus groups on separate campuses of Istanbul Technical University (ITU) were formed in order to determine student expectations on the university's official mobile application (ITU Mobile). In addition to the 14 currently available features of the ITU Mobile, 32 additional features were identified as expectations, and the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) was employed to prioritize them. Results indicate that when designing mobile applications, universities should pay attention to several dimensions such as refreshment, life, education, facility, integration with other applications, and transportation to better facilitate their students' campus life.

Determination of Temporary Shelter Areas by the Analytic Hierarchy Process Method: The Case of Burdur City Center, Turkey

Turkish Journal of Agriculture - Food Science and Technology ◽

10.24925/turjaf.v9i4.807-813.4253 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (4) ◽

pp. 807-813

Author(s):

Hüseyin Samet Aşıkkutlu ◽

Yasin Aşık ◽

Latif Gürkan Kaya

Keyword(s):

Human Life ◽

City Center ◽

Analytic Hierarchy ◽

Analytic Hierarchy Process Method ◽

Hierarchy Process ◽

The City ◽

Post Disaster ◽

Process Method

Disasters adversely affect human life. Many people face sheltering problems after disasters. Temporary shelter areas are very important in terms of meeting people's post-disaster sheltering needs. In this study, it was aimed to determine temporary shelter areas in the city center of Burdur. The AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) method was used to determine temporary shelter areas. According to certain criteria and spatial standards, six temporary shelter areas were determined in the city center of Burdur, and their adequacy was tested. Temporary shelters are located in urban open and green lands. Temporary shelter areas determined under today's conditions are adequate. However, it is predicted that temporary shelter areas will be inadequate in the upcoming process. Some recommendations were made about the problems and the path to be followed in the upcoming process. These recommendations will be useful for the post-disaster process.

Putting Context in the Network Access of Mobile Applications Using Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process

International Journal of Decision Support System Technology ◽

10.4018/ijdsst.2019040102 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (2) ◽

pp. 13-26

Author(s):

Yaser A. Mowafi ◽

Tareq Alaqarbeh ◽

Rami Alazrai

Keyword(s):

Mobile Applications ◽

Service Management ◽

Smart Phone ◽

Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process ◽

Network Access ◽

Access Management ◽

Analytic Hierarchy ◽

Access Service ◽

In this article, the authors present a design and implementation of a context-based network access mechanism for eliciting context information and adapting this information with mobile applications' network access management. This paper proposes a multi-criteria decision-making algorithm based on fuzzy analytic hierarchy process that allows for integrating four context criteria, namely location, network, time, and speed, with network access service management of mobile applications at run-time. This article evaluates the proposed mechanism in the Android operating system running on handheld smart phone devices. Evaluation results have revealed the significance of fuzzy analytic hierarchy process method in providing network access management features based on real-time assessment of user context.

Assessment of Wilderness Quality Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process

Tourism Economics ◽

10.5367/000000002101298061 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 189-206 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Jayanath Ananda ◽

Gamini Herath

Keyword(s):

Information Systems ◽

Geographic Information Systems ◽

Focus Groups ◽

Large Scale ◽

Assessment Method ◽

Analytic Hierarchy ◽

The Analytic Hierarchy Process ◽

Wilderness is a unique environmental resource that provides a multitude of use and non-use benefits. The use and management of wilderness depend on the assessment of wilderness quality. Current wilderness assessment in Australia is based on two broad criteria, the remoteness and naturalness of the wilderness, determined using geographic information systems. This paper discusses a complementary assessment method using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). The AHP can be used to incorporate additional criteria, such as social and cultural criteria, to improve the quality of wilderness assessment. It provides a flexible and compatible method for large-scale wilderness assessments with multiple criteria. The weighting factors for the different criteria can be obtained from expert panels and focus groups.

Preliminary Study on the Prioritization of Asset Integrity Elements for Catastrophic Industrial Accident’s Warning Signs Using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)

Journal of Chemical Engineering and Industrial Biotechnology ◽

10.15282/jceib.v6i1.4361 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 26-31

Author(s):

Azizan Ramli ◽

Siti Hawa Amran ◽

Nurul Sa'aadah Sulaiman

Keyword(s):

Assessment Tool ◽

Human Life ◽

Warning Signs ◽

Response Analysis ◽

Warning Sign ◽

Analysis Tool ◽

Analytic Hierarchy ◽

Preliminary Study ◽

The catastrophic incident is a big event with high level of consequences and it is defined as either natural or man-made. Therefore, in appreciating the importance of disaster management cycle of the preparedness phase, recognizing the warning signs is one of the considerable means to avoid huge losses in term of property damage and human life. Thus, this study is to emphasize on asset integrity elements based on the “Incident Warning Sign Self- Assessment Tool” of the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS-AlChE). The aim is to conduct the preliminary study on prioritizing the importance level of these elements and determine the weightage of each. A set of questions was constructed and distributed to the safety experts from the selected process industries located at East Coast region of West Malaysia. The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is used as a response analysis tool. The relevant data were derived using pairwise comparison analysis. The findings show that the weightage for “alarm & safety system” (0.219) and “maintenance’ (0.212) are at the highest priority amongst other clusters. The finding indicates that these two factors ought to be at the apex of the mitigations and preparedness measures which require an immediate attention.