Resources

This section presents a collection of AHP/ANP resources (presentations, documents, videos and software tools). 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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Python AhpAnpLib Tutorial 3-3: Calculating results

Level: Beginner
Author(s): Creative Decisions Foundation
In this tutorial, we dive into the exciting process of calculating results for your Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) model. You'll learn how to use the AhpAnpLib library to import your filled-in Excel questionnaire, calculate the pairwise comparison matrices, and derive the priorities of your...

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Python AhpAnpLib Tutorials 3-2a: Eliciting Judgments using an Excel template

Level: Beginner
Author(s): Creative Decisions Foundation
In this tutorial, we will demonstrate how to elicit judgments for your Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) model using an Excel template. You'll learn how to fill in pairwise comparison matrices and direct values to capture the relative importance of criteria and alternatives. This hands-on guid...

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Connections of the nervous system

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...

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Presentations

Python AhpAnpLib Tutorial 3-1b: Creating an AHP model in Python from an Excel AHP file

Level: Beginner
Author(s): Creative Decisions Foundation
In this tutorial, we will show you how to create an Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) model in Python using an existing Excel file with AHP data. We'll guide you through the process of importing the AHP structure and judgments from the Excel file into Python, allowing you to work with the mode...

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Python AhpAnpLib Tutorials 3-1a: Creating an AHP model in Python from scratch

Level: Beginner
Author(s): Creative Decisions Foundation
We'll dive into the step-by-step process of building the AHP model in this tutorial. You'll learn how to define criteria, set up the hierarchy, and export the pairwise comparisons questionnaire template.

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Python AhpAnpLib Tutorials 5: Creating Benefits – Opportunities – Costs and Risks models

Level: Intermediate
Author(s): Creative Decisions Foundation
In Tutorial 5, we delve into creating Benefits, Opportunities, Costs, and Risks (BOCR) models using Python and calculating short-term and long-term best decisions. We start by demonstrating how to create these models by importing data from Excel, either from a pre-existing model or from scratch. ...

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Videos

Thomas Saaty on prioritizing in a pandemic

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.

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Thomas Saaty on AHP in Prediction, Projection and Forecasting

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...

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Using Superdecisions software to run Ratings model of AHP

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.

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Software Tools

Decision Mentor

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....

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SuperDecisions Software

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...

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Web System for Medical Diagnosis Support

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...

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