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Paper results for keyword: Group decision makingAn Analytic Hierarchy Process model of group consensus
Qingxing Dong, Thomas SaatyJournal: Journal of Systems Science and Systems EngineeringIn group decision making, a certain degree of consensus is necessary to derive a meaningful and valid outcome. This paper proposes a consensus reaching model for a group by using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). It supports people to improve their group consensus level through an updating of...
Read MoreHow many judges should there be in a group?
Thomas Saaty, Mujgan Sagir OzdemirJournal: Annals of Data ScienceThis paper briefly examines the question of how many judges are needed to obtain valid and consistent judgments when using the analytic hierarchy process. It turns out that if a judge is experienced and well versed in an area, he can be sufficient to provide the judgments instead of diluting his ...
Read MoreThe Analytic Hierarchy Process applied to complexity
Thomas Saaty, Nina BegicevicJournal: International Journal of Economics and Business ResearchEven in science, there is always the human element of using our own assumptions in logic, our feelings, our values and numerous criteria we must deal with. In addition, we often have to include the measurements of tangibles that always need agreed upon subjective judgement to interpret what exact...
Read MoreGroup decision-making: Head-count versus intensity of preference
Thomas Saaty, Jennifer ShangJournal: Socio-Economic Planning SciencesThis paper puts forth a framework for reshaping the group decision-making process. The proposed framework extends from the usual one-issue-at-a-time decision-making to one that involves several related issues simultaneously. Weaknesses of the traditional majority voting mechanism are first identi...
Read MoreA ratio scale metric and the compatibility of ratio scales: The possibility of arrow's impossibility theorem
Thomas SaatyJournal: Applied Mathematics LettersWe develop a metric for ratio scales and explore the notion of compatibility of two sets of measurements of a set of objects or properties on a ratio scale. We briefly address Arrow's impossibility theorem. We maintain that it is not as impossible as claimed when, as in reality, a certain degree ...
Read MoreMeasuring Corporate Social Responsibility Performance
Asma Mohammed BahurmozJournal: International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy ProcessAlthough there is no agreed upon universal definition of corporate social responsibility (CSR), organizations are often ranked in terms of their CSR performance. However, two glaring gaps have been identified in the CSR literature. First, evaluation methodologies are questionable and often lack a...
Read MoreIntegrating the AHP Methodology into the Procedures of Decision Making in governmental agencies
Asma Mohammed BahurmozJournal: The International Symposium of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 2014The Gulf Cooperation Council Countries are challenged by unprecedented labor problems. These countries suffer from unemployment problems in spite of the fact that they offer jobs for millions of immigrants. Non indigenous fill 95% of the private sector jobs in these countries. Saudi Arabia as the...
Read MoreConsensus with the Analytic Hierarchy Process at Dar Al-Hekma, Saudi Arabia
Asma Mohammed BahurmozJournal: International Symposium of Analytic Hierarchy Process 2001I designed and implemented a multicriteria group decision-making model based on the Analytic Hierarchy Process to select the best candidates to send overseas for graduate studies, eventually becoming teachers at the newly created Dar Al-Hekma women’s college in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The paper hig...
Read MoreMeasuring Corporate Social Responsibility Performance: A Comprehensive AHP Based Index
Asma Mohammed BahurmozAlthough there is no agreed upon universal definition of corporate social responsibility (CSR), organizations are often ranked in terms of their CSR performance. However, two glaring gaps have been identified in the CSR literature. First, evaluation methodologies are questionable and often lack a...
Read MoreAggregating Individual Judgments and Prioriies with the Analytic Hierarchy Process
Ernest Forman, Kirti PeniwatiJournal: European Journal of Operational ResearchThe Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is often used in group settings where group members either engage in discussion to achieve a consensus or express their own preferences. Individual judgments can be aggregated in different ways. Two of the methods that have been found to be most useful are the...
Read MoreAn Unifying Theory for Social Choice and Synergistic Group Decision Making
Kirti PeniwatiJournal: Proceedings of the fifth International Symposium on The Analytic Hierarchy ProcessThe process of aggregating individual judgments in a population at large and in a synergistic group (team) is fundamentally different. Arrow's Impossibility Theorem shows that it is generally impossible to derive a rational group choice from individual ordinal preferences with more than two a...
Read MoreCriteria for Evaluating Group Decision-Making Methods. In: Decision Making with the Analytic Network Process
Kirti PeniwatiJournal: Mathematical and Computer ModellingThis paper brings many criteria and many methods under one umbrella and compares them. The schematization given here is a good start and may eventually be improved upon in subsequent revisions by extending the criteria used and by further debating the importance of these criteria and their pertin...
Read MoreThe Group Decision Making for location Analysis of Wood Industry plants, the case of Iran
Majid AziziJournal: Journal of the Institute of Wood Science The improper sites of plywood and veneer factories have caused the unsatisfactory production. For future plants, it is decided to analyze the problem through scientific studies. Influential indicators for this matter were identified and an hierarchy was constructed based on five major groups of c...
Read MoreExplore and identify indicators of customer loyalty to the brand in the furniture industry by AHP (Parsi)
M. Ghofrani, V. Farshchi, Majid AziziJournal: Iranian Journal of wood and paper science researchNowadays, producers are successful in Of getting profit in more efforts to satisfy our customers in target markets And build customer loyalty to your brand. The aim of this study was to study and identify factors influencing loyalty Customer to the brand in the furniture industry using Group Deci...
Read MoreA new approach in group decision making based on pairwise comparisons
Mohammad Azadfallah, Majid AziziJournal: J. for International Business and Entrepreneurship DevelopmentA review of the supplier selection literature shows that the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) method is one of the most commonly applied methods in practice. However, a major drawback in applying AHP is that the required comparisons rises quadratically with the entities to be compared. In this pa...
Read MoreDetermining effective criteria on sustainable development of fluting paper making industry
Majid Azizi, Nemat Mohebbi, Mohammad AzadfallahJournal: Economics, Management and SustainabilityFluting paper industry seems to be significant from environmental view point. Accordingly, study on sustainable development criteria in this sector of Iran’s industry is regarded as a national necessity. The intent of the current study is to determine and prioritize the indices affecting sustaina...
Read MoreA new combined IF-DEMATEL and IF-ANP approach for CRM partner evaluation
Gulcin Buyukozkan, Sezin Guleryuz, Birsen KarpakJournal: International Journal of Production EconomicsSelection of the most suitable business partner is a strategic decision for outsourcing problems. This study aims to provide an effective evaluation approach for assessing alternative CRM partners. The choice of a suitable partner is a very complex decision, involving many conflicting objectives ...
Read More
An Analytic Hierarchy Process model of group consensus
Qingxing Dong, Thomas SaatyJournal: Journal of Systems Science and Systems EngineeringIn group decision making, a certain degree of consensus is necessary to derive a meaningful and valid outcome. This paper proposes a consensus reaching model for a group by using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). It supports people to improve their group consensus level through an updating of...
Read MoreHow many judges should there be in a group?
Thomas Saaty, Mujgan Sagir OzdemirJournal: Annals of Data ScienceThis paper briefly examines the question of how many judges are needed to obtain valid and consistent judgments when using the analytic hierarchy process. It turns out that if a judge is experienced and well versed in an area, he can be sufficient to provide the judgments instead of diluting his ...
Read MoreThe Analytic Hierarchy Process applied to complexity
Thomas Saaty, Nina BegicevicJournal: International Journal of Economics and Business ResearchEven in science, there is always the human element of using our own assumptions in logic, our feelings, our values and numerous criteria we must deal with. In addition, we often have to include the measurements of tangibles that always need agreed upon subjective judgement to interpret what exact...
Read MoreGroup decision-making: Head-count versus intensity of preference
Thomas Saaty, Jennifer ShangJournal: Socio-Economic Planning SciencesThis paper puts forth a framework for reshaping the group decision-making process. The proposed framework extends from the usual one-issue-at-a-time decision-making to one that involves several related issues simultaneously. Weaknesses of the traditional majority voting mechanism are first identi...
Read MoreA ratio scale metric and the compatibility of ratio scales: The possibility of arrow's impossibility theorem
Thomas SaatyJournal: Applied Mathematics LettersWe develop a metric for ratio scales and explore the notion of compatibility of two sets of measurements of a set of objects or properties on a ratio scale. We briefly address Arrow's impossibility theorem. We maintain that it is not as impossible as claimed when, as in reality, a certain degree ...
Read MoreMeasuring Corporate Social Responsibility Performance
Asma Mohammed BahurmozJournal: International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy ProcessAlthough there is no agreed upon universal definition of corporate social responsibility (CSR), organizations are often ranked in terms of their CSR performance. However, two glaring gaps have been identified in the CSR literature. First, evaluation methodologies are questionable and often lack a...
Read MoreIntegrating the AHP Methodology into the Procedures of Decision Making in governmental agencies
Asma Mohammed BahurmozJournal: The International Symposium of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 2014The Gulf Cooperation Council Countries are challenged by unprecedented labor problems. These countries suffer from unemployment problems in spite of the fact that they offer jobs for millions of immigrants. Non indigenous fill 95% of the private sector jobs in these countries. Saudi Arabia as the...
Read MoreConsensus with the Analytic Hierarchy Process at Dar Al-Hekma, Saudi Arabia
Asma Mohammed BahurmozJournal: International Symposium of Analytic Hierarchy Process 2001I designed and implemented a multicriteria group decision-making model based on the Analytic Hierarchy Process to select the best candidates to send overseas for graduate studies, eventually becoming teachers at the newly created Dar Al-Hekma women’s college in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The paper hig...
Read MoreMeasuring Corporate Social Responsibility Performance: A Comprehensive AHP Based Index
Asma Mohammed BahurmozAlthough there is no agreed upon universal definition of corporate social responsibility (CSR), organizations are often ranked in terms of their CSR performance. However, two glaring gaps have been identified in the CSR literature. First, evaluation methodologies are questionable and often lack a...
Read MoreAggregating Individual Judgments and Prioriies with the Analytic Hierarchy Process
Ernest Forman, Kirti PeniwatiJournal: European Journal of Operational ResearchThe Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is often used in group settings where group members either engage in discussion to achieve a consensus or express their own preferences. Individual judgments can be aggregated in different ways. Two of the methods that have been found to be most useful are the...
Read MoreAn Unifying Theory for Social Choice and Synergistic Group Decision Making
Kirti PeniwatiJournal: Proceedings of the fifth International Symposium on The Analytic Hierarchy ProcessThe process of aggregating individual judgments in a population at large and in a synergistic group (team) is fundamentally different. Arrow's Impossibility Theorem shows that it is generally impossible to derive a rational group choice from individual ordinal preferences with more than two a...
Read MoreCriteria for Evaluating Group Decision-Making Methods. In: Decision Making with the Analytic Network Process
Kirti PeniwatiJournal: Mathematical and Computer ModellingThis paper brings many criteria and many methods under one umbrella and compares them. The schematization given here is a good start and may eventually be improved upon in subsequent revisions by extending the criteria used and by further debating the importance of these criteria and their pertin...
Read MoreThe Group Decision Making for location Analysis of Wood Industry plants, the case of Iran
Majid AziziJournal: Journal of the Institute of Wood Science The improper sites of plywood and veneer factories have caused the unsatisfactory production. For future plants, it is decided to analyze the problem through scientific studies. Influential indicators for this matter were identified and an hierarchy was constructed based on five major groups of c...
Read MoreExplore and identify indicators of customer loyalty to the brand in the furniture industry by AHP (Parsi)
M. Ghofrani, V. Farshchi, Majid AziziJournal: Iranian Journal of wood and paper science researchNowadays, producers are successful in Of getting profit in more efforts to satisfy our customers in target markets And build customer loyalty to your brand. The aim of this study was to study and identify factors influencing loyalty Customer to the brand in the furniture industry using Group Deci...
Read MoreA new approach in group decision making based on pairwise comparisons
Mohammad Azadfallah, Majid AziziJournal: J. for International Business and Entrepreneurship DevelopmentA review of the supplier selection literature shows that the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) method is one of the most commonly applied methods in practice. However, a major drawback in applying AHP is that the required comparisons rises quadratically with the entities to be compared. In this pa...
Read MoreDetermining effective criteria on sustainable development of fluting paper making industry
Majid Azizi, Nemat Mohebbi, Mohammad AzadfallahJournal: Economics, Management and SustainabilityFluting paper industry seems to be significant from environmental view point. Accordingly, study on sustainable development criteria in this sector of Iran’s industry is regarded as a national necessity. The intent of the current study is to determine and prioritize the indices affecting sustaina...
Read MoreA new combined IF-DEMATEL and IF-ANP approach for CRM partner evaluation
Gulcin Buyukozkan, Sezin Guleryuz, Birsen KarpakJournal: International Journal of Production EconomicsSelection of the most suitable business partner is a strategic decision for outsourcing problems. This study aims to provide an effective evaluation approach for assessing alternative CRM partners. The choice of a suitable partner is a very complex decision, involving many conflicting objectives ...
Read More