Papers

This section presents a collection of AHP/ANP papers. Whether you are a student, academic and/or professional in the field of decision making, you can help us expand this collection by sharing your papers on decision making with the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and the Analytic Network Process (ANP).

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An application of the Analytic Hierachy Process for the bosepeorus crossing in instanbul

Tulay Krhngastanr, Birsen Karpak
Journal: ISAHP 1996
In this paper, itineraries in a transport system will be investigated to help city authorities to prioritize alternative routes to improve them. In Istanbul, most commuters have to select a combination of transport modes for crossing the Bosphorus' these will be termed 'ltineraries" i...

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Should Turkish industry apply TQM or not: A dynamic model

Birsen Karpak, Ozden Bayazit
Journal: ISAHP 2001
This study examines whether Turkish Industry is ready to apply Total Quality Management (TQM) or not by using Analytic Network Process (ANP). Our database is based on a survey realized among the one hundred big size companies in Turkey. Those companies have been randomly selected for the study fr...

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A multiple criteria approach for the evaluation of the rail transit networks in Istanbul

Haluk Gercek, Birsen Karpak, Tulay Kilincaslan
Journal: Transportation
The deficiencies in the Istanbul transportation system have led the local authorities to plan several alternative transportation projects. In this paper three alternative rail transit network proposals are evaluated by using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), a multiple criteria decision support s...

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An AHP application in vendor selection

Ozden Bayazit, Birsen Karpak
Journal: ISAHP 2005
Supplier selection is one of the most crucial activities performed by the organizations because of its strategic importance. A supplier selection problem is a multi- objective problem involving both quantitative and qualitative criteria. Over the years a number of quantitative approaches have bee...

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A purchasing decision: Selecting a supplier for a construction company

Ozden Bayazit, Birsen Karpak, Ayhan Yagci
Journal: Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering
Supplier selection is one of the most crucial activities performed by organizations because of its strategic importance. Supplier selection is a multi-objective problem involving both quantitative and qualitative criteria. Over the years a number of quantitative approaches have been tried. Althou...

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