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Level: Intermediate
Author(s): Thomas Saaty
The document is from Thomas Saaty's unpublished book "New Mathematics and Measurement for the Physical, Social and Life Sciences" finished in 2004. This is chapter 4: A New Approach to the Middle East Conflict: the Analytic Hierarchy Process In most long-lasting conflicts, each par...

Level: Beginner
Author(s): Thomas Saaty
This presentation is a lecture on Dependence and Feedback in Single Networks. This is for AHP and ANP beginners. It includes concepts of scales, synthesis, pairwise comparisons, linear hierarchy, and ANP involves dependence and feedback with examples.

Level: Beginner
Author(s): The analytic sciences corporation
An illustrated guide to the Analytic Hierarchy Process in English

Level: Beginner
Author(s): Creative Decisions Foundation
An illustrated guide to the Analytic Hierarchy Process in French

Level: Beginner
Author(s): Creative Decisions Foundation
An illustrated guide to the Analytic Hierarchy Process in Italian

Level: Beginner
Author(s): Creative Decisions Foundation, Thomas Saaty
Thomas Saaty presents an introductory AHP example where you try to estimate the drinks consumption in USA.

Level: Beginner
Author(s): Creative Decisions Foundation, Thomas Saaty
Thomas Saaty presents an introductory AHP example where we try to choose the best school. This is an example to help you understand how the method works.

Level: Intermediate
Author(s): John Saaty
Decision Lens is the complete, end-to-end software solution and business process for identifying, prioritizing, analyzing, and measuring which investments, projects, or resources will deliver the highest returns to your organization, while empowering you to quickly react to ever-changing data. Th...

Level: Intermediate
Author(s): Thomas Saaty
The presentation is from Thomas Saaty's course slides. It covers most mathematical foundations of AHP: the Derived Scale of the AHP, inconsistency, eigenvalue and eigenvector, sensitivity of the principal eigenvector to perturbations in the matrix, and generalizing hierarchic synthesis to the co...

Level: Intermediate
Author(s): Thomas Saaty
This outline is for AHP ANP Decision courses. Each lecture lasts 3 hours for 7 weeks

Level: Intermediate
Author(s): Thomas Saaty
The document is from Thomas Saaty's unpublished book "New Mathematics and Measurement for the Physical, Social and Life Sciences" finished in 2004. This is chapter 9: An Innovative Orders-of-Magnitude Approach to AHP-Based Mutli-criteria Decision Making. "In what follows, we firs...

Level: Beginner
Author(s): Miguel H. Beltran, Thomas Saaty
The presentation goes with a paper published by Thomas Saaty and Miguel H. Beltran. The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), which is explained and applied in another article in the same journal, is used to illustrate the architectural design of a house for a family of three. The plan of the house...

Level: Beginner
Author(s): Thomas Saaty, Miguel H. Beltran
The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), which is explained and applied in another article in the same journal, is used to illustrate the architectural design of a house for a family of three. The plan of the house was develop to satisfy the family's needs by considering the size of the lot, the...

Level: Beginner
Author(s): Creative Decisions Foundation, Thomas Saaty
Thomas Saaty compares apples by entering ratios of their sizes in an AHP pairwise comparison matrix. It leads to a valid answer and he explains that ratios are also used when comparing elements on an intangible property. It is a validation exercise. To validate a process you use it to see if give...

Level: Advanced
Author(s): Lirong Wei
This excel file contains matrices of connections for the nervous system. The first tab is a matrix that lists all main parts of the nervous system, bundles of neurons that have a specific function, and connections that indicate transmission of signals between each pair of the bundles. A connectio...

Level: Beginner
Author(s): Creative Decisions Foundation
Cartoons of decision making

Level: Intermediate
Author(s): Elena Rokou
Want to learn how leaders tackle analytics problems? CDF's Chief Research Director, Dr. Elena Rokou, explores the techniques used for better business solutions. Learn about the Analytic Hierarchy Process, combining simulation and optimization techniques, and more, by watching this sponsored I...

Level: Beginner
Author(s): Shashi Bhattarai - Development Dynamics, Sovit Poudel - Truneary Solutions
AHP FOR EVERYBODY: INNOVATION THROUGH MOBILE APPLICATION FOR PERSONAL DECISIONS An Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) based mobile application for day to day use. Growing internet enabled information reach to individuals via smartphone has created potential for individual decision support systems....

Level: Beginner
Author(s): Thomas Saaty
To design a new mousetrap, initial thinking centered around how today's mousetraps function and what makes them effective. Brainstorming revealed various methods of exterminating a rodent's life.

Level: Intermediate
Author(s): Thomas Saaty
This outline is for EMBA course on ANP Decision making.

Level: Beginner
Author(s): Thomas Saaty, H J Zoffer, Lirong Wei
Is there a way to assess how satisfied one is with one’s life to date? How close one has come to meeting one’s personal aspirations? There has been no immediate process available whereby we can articulate what we wanted for ourselves in a wide variety of aspects or to measure how close we have co...

Level: Beginner
Author(s): Rana Pratap Singh, Ph. D., Shashi Bhattarai, Ananta Man Singh
Gross National Happiness (GNH) is a multi-criteria well-being measurement system in Bhutan. The four pillars of GNH considered are political, economic, cultural and environmental. There are nine domains and thirty three indicators of GNH, which generates the GNH Index, a holistic representation o...

Level: Beginner
Author(s): Creative Decisions Foundation, Thomas Saaty
The video explored the 1-9 scale that is used in AHP and ANP.

Level: Beginner
Author(s): Rafikul Islam
In this video, I have have shown how to use Superdecisions software to perform Sensitivity Analysis.

Level: Beginner
Author(s): Thomas Saaty
Numbers need to be interpreted as to how they serve your purpose; otherwise they are meaningless. Here are some examples.

Level: Beginner
Author(s): Thomas Saaty
The document is from Thomas Saaty's unpublished book "New Mathematics and Measurement for the Physical, Social and Life Sciences" finished in 2004. This is chapter 7: Modeling the Graduate Business School Admissions Process. "In this chapter, we try to capture the overall decisio...

Level: Intermediate
Author(s): Thomas Saaty
The document is from Thomas Saaty's unpublished book "New Mathematics and Measurement for the Physical, Social and Life Sciences" finished in 2004. This is chapter 1 of the book: On the Measurement of Intangibles, Relative Measurement Derived from Paired Comparisons. Nearly all of ...

Level: Advanced
Author(s): Thomas Saaty
The document is from Thomas Saaty's unpublished book "New Mathematics and Measurement for the Physical, Social and Life Sciences" finished in 2004. This is chapter 5: On the Measurement of Intangibles with Interdependence and Feedback: The Analytic Network and Neural Network Processes...

Level: Beginner
Author(s): Thomas Saaty, Enrique Mu
MRTA Members storm Japanese embassy and take hostages. They demand release of jailed leaders and comrades. What should the government do? Can AHP help? AHP can help us understand the issues surrounding conflict resolutions but it is still up to people to make the choices!

Level: Intermediate
Author(s): Thomas Saaty
!The document is from Thomas Saaty's unpublished book "New Mathematics and Measurement for the Physical, Social and Life Sciences" finished in 2004. This is chapter 3 of the book: Projecting Average Family Size in Rural India by the Analytic Hierarchy Process Although the material...

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Level: Beginner
Author(s): Thomas Saaty, H. J. Zoffer, Lirong Wei
How satisfied is each of us with the fulfillment of his life? In this paper after a thorough search of the literature about satisfaction, 58 criteria and subcriteria related to satisfaction or fulfillment were identified and arranged in a hierarchic structure. A process of prioritization known as...

Level: Beginner
Author(s): Creative Decisions Foundation, Thomas Saaty
This is an AHP ratings example for giving Salary Raises to Employees. The Ratings approach of AHP is used to rate employees one-at-a-time for their work performance on company criteria. Their performance scores are used to proportionately allocate the money available for salary raises among the e...

Level: Beginner
Author(s): Thomas Saaty, Lirong Wei
The European Union is a great and inspired step towards economic unity and in particular financial, social, and political unity. Is it beneficial to the UK and to the world at large in the long run that the UK has broken off from the European Union in its Brexit with dissent coming from Londoners...

Level: Beginner
Author(s): Thomas Saaty
The document is from Thomas Saaty's unpublished book "New Mathematics and Measurement for the Physical, Social and Life Sciences" finished in 2004. This is chapter 8: Should the United States Legalize the Sale of Marijuana? "This chapter is written by Jonah Hatfield and Liza Amer...

Level: Beginner
Author(s): Creative Decisions Foundation
The SuperDecisions software is used for decision-making with dependence and feedback. It implements the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and the Analytic Network Process (ANP). This software provides tools to create and manage AHP and ANP models, enter your judgments, get results and perform s...

Level: Beginner
Author(s): Creative Decisions Foundation
Sensitivity analysis is used to analyze how the priorities of the alternative solutions change as we vary the priority of one or more decision making factors (criteria).

Level: Beginner
Author(s): Thomas Saaty
The document is from Thomas Saaty's unpublished book "New Mathematics and Measurement for the Physical, Social and Life Sciences" finished in 2004. This is chapter 11: The Analytic Hierarchy Process and Human Resource Allocation: Half the Story. This is an expository chapter about t...

Level: Beginner
Author(s): The Super Decisions Software , Thomas Saaty
Every Project should have a summary with the following figures and tables included 1. Title with brief explanation of what the problem is and why a decision is needed. 2. BOCR networks compactly shown 3. Table of the BOCR control criteria, subcriteria and their priorities 4. Table of t...

Level: Beginner
Author(s): Creative Decisions Foundation, Thomas Saaty
How to combine elements with different orders of magnitude in an AHP model? This is an example of using linking pin elements between groups of different magnitudes.

Level: Intermediate
Author(s): Thomas Saaty
The document is from Thomas Saaty's unpublished book "New Mathematics and Measurement for the Physical, Social and Life Sciences" finished in 2004. This is chapter 10: The Rationality of Punishment - Measuring the Severity of Crimes: An AHP-Based Orders-of- Magnitude Approach. This ch...

Level: Intermediate
Author(s): Thomas Saaty
The document is from Thomas Saaty's unpublished book "New Mathematics and Measurement for the Physical, Social and Life Sciences" finished in 2004. This is chapter 2 of the book - The Unknown: What to Do About It This chapter deals with the following ideas: -Augmenting a hierarchic...

Level: Beginner
Author(s): Creative Decisions Foundation
Thomas Saaty discusses using AHP to successfully predict presidential elections in the US since Jimmy Carter in 1980. The AHP was used to project when the US economy would turn around in 1990, 2001 and 2008. Outcomes of sporting events have been predicted by combining judgment with statistical da...

Level: Beginner
Author(s): Thomas Saaty, Creative Decisions Foundation
Thomas Saaty discusses using AHP to successfully predict presidential elections in the US since Jimmy Carter in 1980. The AHP was used to project when the US economy would turn around in 1990, 2001 and 2008. Outcomes of sporting events have been predicted by combining judgment with statistical da...

Level: Beginner
Author(s): Creative Decisions Foundation, Thomas Saaty
When someone says be objective, what can they possibly mean? Tom Saaty offers his philosophy on objectivity, even our interpretation of numbers is subjective, depending on our purpose.

Level: Beginner
Author(s): Creative Decisions Foundation
Saaty in 2006 lecturing about prioritizing in a pandemic. Bird flu in 1997 and the SARS epidemic in 2002 to 2003 had awakened the world to the dangers of a pandemic, but the effects Tom talks about were little mentioned then. We're aware of them now in 2020.

Level: Beginner
Author(s): Creative Decisions Foundation, Thomas Saaty
Saaty in 2006 lecturing about prioritizing in a pandemic. Bird flu in 1997 and the SARS epidemic in 2002 to 2003 had awakened the world to the dangers of a pandemic, but the effects Tom talks about were little mentioned then. We're aware of them now in 2020.

Level: Beginner
Author(s): Rafikul Islam
In this video, I have discussed how to use Superdecisions soiftware to find priorities of a set of alternatives on the basis of criteria and subcriteria.

Level: Beginner
Author(s): Rafikul Islam
In this video, the users will know how to use Superdcisions software for an AHP hierarchy which has criteria as well as subcriteria.

Level: Beginner
Author(s): Rafikul Islam
This video is for the beginers who want to know how to run Superdecisions software. The AHP hierachy consists of only three levels: Goal, Criteria, and Altenatives.

Level: Beginner
Author(s): Rafikul Islam
AHP Ratings model is used to implement Absolute Measurement process of AHP. This is usually used when the hierarchy involves a large number of alternatives. In this video, I have shown how to use Superdecisions software for Ratings model of AHP.

Level: Intermediate
Author(s): Thomas Saaty
The document is from Thomas Saaty's unpublished book "New Mathematics and Measurement for the Physical, Social and Life Sciences" finished in 2004. This is chapter 6: Validation Examples of the Analytic Hierarchy Process and Analytic Network Process. " In this chapter, we deal wi...

Level: Intermediate
Author(s): Claudio Garuti, Mario Sandoval
The medical diagnosis error corresponds to any failure or mistake in the patient care process that leads to the lack of a diagnosis, an incorrect or delayed one. The main reasons for error in medical diagnosis can be grouped into two fundamental pillars: incorrect/inaccurated diagnosis, and lac...

Level: Beginner
Author(s): Creative Decisions Foundation, Thomas Saaty
Thomas Saaty talks about the thinking that led him to develop the reciprocal pairwise comparison matrix and how it systematizes and improves the development of priorities.