scholarly journals An Analysis on the Relative Importance of the Risk Factors for the Marine Traffic Environment using Analytic Hierarchy Process

2013 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hong-Hoon Lee ◽  
Chol-Seong Kim
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy Process ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Marine Traffic ◽  
Traffic Environment ◽  
Hierarchy Process

Relative importance of risk factors for spruce beetle outbreaks

1994 ◽  
Vol 24 (10) ◽  
pp. 2089-2095 ◽  
Author(s):  
K.M. Reynolds ◽  
E.H. Holsten
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy Process ◽  
Expert Knowledge ◽  
Rocky Mountain ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
The Past ◽  
Spruce Beetle ◽  
The Analytic Hierarchy Process ◽  
Hierarchy Process

Nine factors were initially suggested by spruce beetle (Dendroctonusrufipennis (Kby.)) experts in Alaska as potentially important in determining the risk of a spruce beetle outbreak in stands. Factors suggested were stand hazard, size and trend of spruce beetle population in neighboring stands, degree–days in the past June, total rainfall in the past summer, and availability of four types of breeding material. Risk factors were organized into a hierarchical model of spruce beetle risk, and the relative importance of factors for determining risk was analyzed in three stages with the analytic hierarchy process. This process derives subjective estimates of factor importance values through a process of pair-wise comparisons. Analysis in stage 1 involved independent responses of two experts from Alaska. In stage 2, three experts from Alaska provided responses as a group. In stage 3, five experts, representing Alaska, British Columbia, and the Rocky Mountain region, provided responses as a group. In the final stage of analysis, stand hazard and windthrown trees were identified as the two most important factors determining risk of a spruce beetle outbreak. Hazard and windthrow were considered about equally important and together accounted for almost two-thirds of the total allocation of importance values among risk factors. The analytic hierarchy process is an effective method for eliciting expert knowledge and can be a useful tool for development of expert systems in natural resource management, where even expert knowledge is often incomplete.

Integrated Quality Function Deployment as a Tool for Quality Achievement in Healthcare

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 80-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chintala Venkateswarlu ◽  
A. K. Birru
Keyword(s):  
Analytic Hierarchy Process ◽  
Quality Function Deployment ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Direct Evaluation ◽  
Quality Function ◽  
Model Combining ◽  
Hierarchy Process

Quality function deployment (QFD) is a methodology that extracts client demands (CDs) and inducting them in the final service/product. Once CDs are extracted from client the traditional QFD approach uses absolute importance to identify the degree of importance for each CD. Direct evaluation of CDs based on absolute weighting without tradeoffs is easy to perform, but may lead to serious deviations from reality. An alternative to avoid this problem is to adopt the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) approach. In this paper, an integrated model combining AHP and QFD has been delineated as a quality achievement tool in healthcare. A case study is performed on the healthcare services provided by government general hospital, Indore District, Madhya Pradesh, India and data has been analyzed to benchmark the proposed framework by computing the degree of relative importance for CDs through AHP and incorporating them in subsequent deployment matrices.

The Evaluation in Weapon Operational Effectiveness Base on Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process

2011 ◽  
Vol 201-203 ◽  
pp. 995-1000
Author(s):  
Yun Peng Zhao ◽  
Nan Li
Keyword(s):  
Complex System ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy Process ◽  
Assessment Methods ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Weapon System ◽  
Operational Effectiveness ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Traditional Assessment ◽  
Hierarchy Process ◽  
Pair Wise Comparison

weapon system is a complex system, there are many fuzzy or uncertain factors that have led the operational effectiveness of the weapon itself is certain ambiguity. The traditional assessment methods can not deal with this problem, that will inevitably lead the assessment results having some certain risk. FAHP is a method which can decompose of the complex ambiguity with a series of fuzzy factors, then determine the relative importance of various factors in levels by pair-wise comparison, finally determine the Sequence of the relative importance of various factors. This paper introduced FAHP into the comparison of operational of several weapons, and be able to reduce the risk of the evaluation results.

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