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1、1Publishedin:Inter’lJournalofIndustrialEngineering:ApplicationsandPractice,Vol.2,No.1,pp.35-44,1995.USINGTHEANALYTICHIERARCHYPROCESSFORDECISIONMAKINGINENGINEERINGAPPLICATIONS:SOMECHALLENGESEvangelosTriantaphyllouDepartmentofIndustrialandManufacturingSystemsEngineeringLouisianaStateUniversi
2、ty3128CEBABuildingBatonRouge,LA70803-6409,U.S.A.StuartH.MannSchoolofHotel,RestaurantandRecreationManagementThePennsylvaniaStateUniversity201EMateerBuildingUniversityPark,PA16802,U.S.A.Inmanyindustrialengineeringapplicationsthefinaldecisionisbasedontheevaluationofanumberofalternativesinterm
3、sofanumberofcriteria.Thisproblemmaybecomeaverydifficultonewhenthecriteriaareexpressedindifferentunitsorthepertinentdataaredifficulttobequantified.TheAnalyticHierarchyProcess(AHP)isaneffectiveapproachindealingwiththiskindofdecisionproblems.Thispaperexaminessomeofthepracticalandcomputational
4、issuesinvolvedwhentheAHPmethodisusedinengineeringapplications.Significance:Inmanyengineeringapplicationsthefinaldecisiondependsontheevaluationofasetofalternativesintermsofanumberofdecisioncriteria.ThismaybeadifficulttaskandtheAnalyticHierarchyProcessseemstoprovideaneffectivewayforproperlyq
5、uantifyingthepertinentdata.However,therearemanycriticalissuesthatadecisionmakerneedstobeawareof.Keywords:Multi-CriteriaDecision-Making,AnalyticHierarchyProcess,PairwiseComparisons.(ReceivedAugust23,1994;Acceptedinrevisedform14January1995)1.INTRODUCTIONTheAnalyticHierarchyProcess(AHP)isamul
6、ti-criteriadecision-makingapproachandwasintroducedbySaaty(1977and1994).TheAHPhasattractedtheinterestofmanyresearchersmainlyduetothenicemathematicalpropertiesofthemethodandthefactthattherequiredinputdataarerathereasytoobtain.TheAHPisadecisionsupporttoolwhichcanbeusedtosolvecomplexdecisionpr
7、oblems.Itusesamulti-levelhierarchicalstructureofobjectives,criteria,subcriteria,andalternatives.Thepertinentdataarederivedbyusingasetofpairwisecomparisons.Thesecomparisonsareusedtoobtaintheweightsofimportanceofthedecisioncriteria,andtherelativeperformancemeasu
