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Resource results for topic: AHPAHP Mathematical Calculations and Inconsistency
Level: IntermediateAuthor(s): John SaatyDecision 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...
Read MoreAHP and ANP for beginners - Dependence and Feedback in Single Networks
Level: BeginnerAuthor(s): Thomas SaatyThis 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.
Read MoreHow did Thomas Saaty come up with the 1-9 AHP scale?
Level: BeginnerAuthor(s): Creative Decisions Foundation, Thomas SaatyThe video explored the 1-9 scale that is used in AHP and ANP.
Read MoreComparing Apples
Level: BeginnerAuthor(s): Creative Decisions Foundation, Thomas SaatyThomas 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...
Read MoreThe origins of AHP
Level: BeginnerAuthor(s): Creative Decisions Foundation, Thomas SaatyHow 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.
Read MoreAHP Introductory Example: Predicting Drinks Consumption in USA
Level: BeginnerAuthor(s): Creative Decisions Foundation, Thomas SaatyThomas Saaty presents an introductory AHP example where you try to estimate the drinks consumption in USA.
Read MoreAHP Introductory Example: School Selection
Level: BeginnerAuthor(s): Creative Decisions Foundation, Thomas SaatyThomas 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.
Read MoreRating Examples
Level: BeginnerAuthor(s): Creative Decisions Foundation, Thomas SaatyThis 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...
Read MoreThomas Saaty on AHP in Prediction, Projection and Forecasting
Level: BeginnerAuthor(s): Thomas Saaty, Creative Decisions FoundationThomas 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...
Read MoreAHP Theory and Math
Level: IntermediateAuthor(s): Thomas SaatyThe 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...
Read MoreArchitectural Design by AHP
Level: BeginnerAuthor(s): Miguel H. Beltran, Thomas SaatyThe 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...
Read MoreDesigning Mouse trap and Catamaran with AHP
Level: BeginnerAuthor(s): Thomas SaatyTo 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.
Read MoreThe Essentials of the Analytic Network Process with Seven Examples
Level: BeginnerAuthor(s): The Super Decisions Software , Thomas SaatyEvery 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...
Read MoreWeb System for Medical Diagnosis Support
Level: IntermediateAuthor(s): Claudio Garuti, Mario SandovalThe 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...
Read MoreArchitectural Design by the Analytic Hierarchy Process
Level: BeginnerAuthor(s): Thomas Saaty, Miguel H. BeltranThe 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...
Read MoreAHP Cartoon in English
Level: BeginnerAuthor(s): The analytic sciences corporationAn illustrated guide to the Analytic Hierarchy Process in English
Read MoreAHP Cartoon in French
Level: BeginnerAuthor(s): Creative Decisions FoundationAn illustrated guide to the Analytic Hierarchy Process in French
Read MoreAHP Cartoon in Italian
Level: BeginnerAuthor(s): Creative Decisions FoundationAn illustrated guide to the Analytic Hierarchy Process in Italian
Read MoreMeaningless number crunching
Level: BeginnerAuthor(s): Thomas SaatyNumbers need to be interpreted as to how they serve your purpose; otherwise they are meaningless. Here are some examples.
Read MorePeruvian Hostage Crisis
Level: BeginnerAuthor(s): Thomas Saaty, Enrique MuMRTA 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!
Read MoreAHP/ANP Decision Course Guideline
Level: IntermediateAuthor(s): Thomas SaatyThis outline is for AHP ANP Decision courses. Each lecture lasts 3 hours for 7 weeks
Read MoreOn the Measurement of Intangibles Relative Measurement Derived from Paired Comparisons
Level: IntermediateAuthor(s): Thomas SaatyThe 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 ...
Read MoreThe Unknown: What to Do About It
Level: IntermediateAuthor(s): Thomas SaatyThe 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...
Read MoreProjecting Average Family Size in Rural India by the Analytic Hierarchy Process
Level: IntermediateAuthor(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...
Read MoreA New Approach to the Middle East Conflict: the Analytic Hierarchy Process
Level: IntermediateAuthor(s): Thomas SaatyThe 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...
Read MoreSuperDecisions Software
Level: BeginnerAuthor(s): Creative Decisions FoundationThe 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...
Read MoreQuestionnaire of life satisfaction
Level: BeginnerAuthor(s): Thomas Saaty, H. J. Zoffer, Lirong WeiHow 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...
Read MoreValidation Examples of the Analytic Hierarchy Process and Analytic Network Process
Level: IntermediateAuthor(s): Thomas SaatyThe 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...
Read MoreModeling the Graduate Business School Admissions Process
Level: BeginnerAuthor(s): Thomas SaatyThe 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...
Read MoreAn Innovative Orders-of-Magnitude Approach to AHP-Based Mutli-criteria Decision Making
Level: IntermediateAuthor(s): Thomas SaatyThe 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...
Read MoreThe Rationality of Punishment - Measuring the Severity of Crimes: An AHP-Based Orders-of- Magnitude Approach
Level: IntermediateAuthor(s): Thomas SaatyThe 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...
Read MoreThe Analytic Hierarchy Process and Human Resource Allocation: Half the Story
Level: BeginnerAuthor(s): Thomas SaatyThe 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...
Read MoreFulfillment of Life
Level: BeginnerAuthor(s): Thomas Saaty, H J Zoffer, Lirong WeiIs 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...
Read MoreSHOULD THE UK HAVE BREXITED THE EUROPEAN UNION?
Level: BeginnerAuthor(s): Thomas Saaty, Lirong WeiThe 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...
Read MoreSuperDecisions Tutorial: AHP Sensitivity Analysis
Level: BeginnerAuthor(s): Creative Decisions FoundationSensitivity 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).
Read MoreThomas Saaty on AHP in Prediction, Projection and Forecasting
Level: BeginnerAuthor(s): Creative Decisions FoundationThomas 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...
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AHP Mathematical Calculations and Inconsistency
Level: IntermediateAuthor(s): John SaatyDecision 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...
Read MoreAHP and ANP for beginners - Dependence and Feedback in Single Networks
Level: BeginnerAuthor(s): Thomas SaatyThis 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.
Read MoreHow did Thomas Saaty come up with the 1-9 AHP scale?
Level: BeginnerAuthor(s): Creative Decisions Foundation, Thomas SaatyThe video explored the 1-9 scale that is used in AHP and ANP.
Read MoreComparing Apples
Level: BeginnerAuthor(s): Creative Decisions Foundation, Thomas SaatyThomas 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...
Read MoreThe origins of AHP
Level: BeginnerAuthor(s): Creative Decisions Foundation, Thomas SaatyHow 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.
Read MoreAHP Introductory Example: Predicting Drinks Consumption in USA
Level: BeginnerAuthor(s): Creative Decisions Foundation, Thomas SaatyThomas Saaty presents an introductory AHP example where you try to estimate the drinks consumption in USA.
Read MoreAHP Introductory Example: School Selection
Level: BeginnerAuthor(s): Creative Decisions Foundation, Thomas SaatyThomas 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.
Read MoreRating Examples
Level: BeginnerAuthor(s): Creative Decisions Foundation, Thomas SaatyThis 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...
Read MoreThomas Saaty on AHP in Prediction, Projection and Forecasting
Level: BeginnerAuthor(s): Thomas Saaty, Creative Decisions FoundationThomas 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...
Read MoreAHP Theory and Math
Level: IntermediateAuthor(s): Thomas SaatyThe 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...
Read MoreArchitectural Design by AHP
Level: BeginnerAuthor(s): Miguel H. Beltran, Thomas SaatyThe 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...
Read MoreDesigning Mouse trap and Catamaran with AHP
Level: BeginnerAuthor(s): Thomas SaatyTo 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.
Read MoreThe Essentials of the Analytic Network Process with Seven Examples
Level: BeginnerAuthor(s): The Super Decisions Software , Thomas SaatyEvery 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...
Read MoreWeb System for Medical Diagnosis Support
Level: IntermediateAuthor(s): Claudio Garuti, Mario SandovalThe 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...
Read MoreArchitectural Design by the Analytic Hierarchy Process
Level: BeginnerAuthor(s): Thomas Saaty, Miguel H. BeltranThe 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...
Read MoreAHP Cartoon in English
Level: BeginnerAuthor(s): The analytic sciences corporationAn illustrated guide to the Analytic Hierarchy Process in English
Read MoreAHP Cartoon in French
Level: BeginnerAuthor(s): Creative Decisions FoundationAn illustrated guide to the Analytic Hierarchy Process in French
Read MoreAHP Cartoon in Italian
Level: BeginnerAuthor(s): Creative Decisions FoundationAn illustrated guide to the Analytic Hierarchy Process in Italian
Read MoreMeaningless number crunching
Level: BeginnerAuthor(s): Thomas SaatyNumbers need to be interpreted as to how they serve your purpose; otherwise they are meaningless. Here are some examples.
Read MorePeruvian Hostage Crisis
Level: BeginnerAuthor(s): Thomas Saaty, Enrique MuMRTA 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!
Read MoreAHP/ANP Decision Course Guideline
Level: IntermediateAuthor(s): Thomas SaatyThis outline is for AHP ANP Decision courses. Each lecture lasts 3 hours for 7 weeks
Read MoreOn the Measurement of Intangibles Relative Measurement Derived from Paired Comparisons
Level: IntermediateAuthor(s): Thomas SaatyThe 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 ...
Read MoreThe Unknown: What to Do About It
Level: IntermediateAuthor(s): Thomas SaatyThe 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...
Read MoreProjecting Average Family Size in Rural India by the Analytic Hierarchy Process
Level: IntermediateAuthor(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...
Read MoreA New Approach to the Middle East Conflict: the Analytic Hierarchy Process
Level: IntermediateAuthor(s): Thomas SaatyThe 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...
Read MoreSuperDecisions Software
Level: BeginnerAuthor(s): Creative Decisions FoundationThe 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...
Read MoreQuestionnaire of life satisfaction
Level: BeginnerAuthor(s): Thomas Saaty, H. J. Zoffer, Lirong WeiHow 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...
Read MoreValidation Examples of the Analytic Hierarchy Process and Analytic Network Process
Level: IntermediateAuthor(s): Thomas SaatyThe 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...
Read MoreModeling the Graduate Business School Admissions Process
Level: BeginnerAuthor(s): Thomas SaatyThe 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...
Read MoreAn Innovative Orders-of-Magnitude Approach to AHP-Based Mutli-criteria Decision Making
Level: IntermediateAuthor(s): Thomas SaatyThe 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...
Read MoreThe Rationality of Punishment - Measuring the Severity of Crimes: An AHP-Based Orders-of- Magnitude Approach
Level: IntermediateAuthor(s): Thomas SaatyThe 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...
Read MoreThe Analytic Hierarchy Process and Human Resource Allocation: Half the Story
Level: BeginnerAuthor(s): Thomas SaatyThe 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...
Read MoreFulfillment of Life
Level: BeginnerAuthor(s): Thomas Saaty, H J Zoffer, Lirong WeiIs 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...
Read MoreSHOULD THE UK HAVE BREXITED THE EUROPEAN UNION?
Level: BeginnerAuthor(s): Thomas Saaty, Lirong WeiThe 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...
Read MoreSuperDecisions Tutorial: AHP Sensitivity Analysis
Level: BeginnerAuthor(s): Creative Decisions FoundationSensitivity 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).
Read MoreThomas Saaty on AHP in Prediction, Projection and Forecasting
Level: BeginnerAuthor(s): Creative Decisions FoundationThomas 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...
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