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Book results for author: Thomas Saaty

Conflict Resolution

Author(s): Thomas Saaty, Joyce M. Alexander
This book demonstrates a new way to analyze and negotiate conflict resolution. It provides a framework in which conflicting parties can participate partly, fully, or not at all. Unlike the traditional quantitative approach, this new approach deals with tangible and intangible factors including po...

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Mathematical Principles of Decision Making

Author(s): Thomas Saaty
In this book Thomas Saaty summarizes his Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) theory developed over the past 40 years for measuring intangible factors through paired comparisons using judgments from which priorities are derived that give the relative dominance of these factors. The important concepts...

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Prediction, Projection and Forecasting

Author(s): Thomas Saaty
The Analytic Hierarchy Process applied to prediction and forecasting with case studies in games, sports, and applications involving uncertainty and risk. We predict when we say in advance, foretell, or prophesy what is likely to happen in the future. We project when we calculate the numerical va...

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Analytical Planning: The Organization of Systems

Author(s): Thomas Saaty, Kevin P. Kearns
The Analytic Hierarchy Process is presented as a conceptual framework for linking systems and planning. Part I, Systems and Complexity, covers the rationale of systems theory and shows how a system\'s purpose, functions, flows and structure are represented in an AHP model. Part II, Strategic ...

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The Hierarchon

Author(s): Thomas Saaty, Ernest Forman
This work is a beginning in the classification of ideas related to planning, conflict resolution and decision making. There are more than 400 AHP models classified into Business/Corporate Policy and Corporate Strategy, Government/Public Policy and Public Strategy, Health Care, Military Strategy, ...

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The Hierarchon Vol. 2

Author(s): Thomas Saaty, Rafikul Islam
Researchers have been continually developing ways and means to improve quality in decision making. The success of a methodology is judged by its acceptability by the decision makers. In this context, it is beyond any argument that AHP has been massively successful. Readers of this volume will see...

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Decision Making with Dependence and Feedback

Author(s): Thomas Saaty
This book shows how to make decisions when alternatives depend on criteria, but also the criteria depend on the alternatives. It shows how to cope with dependence between different groups of people, goals and criteria. The Analytic Network Process is particularly useful to project the future of a...

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Group Decision Making

Author(s): Thomas Saaty, Kirti Peniwati
When a group makes a decision, that decision carries a lot more weight than when just one person does it. Think of the founding fathers of the American constitution and how much power and influence their ideas have had in the entire world for more than two hundred years. Also think of gravity, a ...

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Theory and Applications of the Analytic Network Process

Author(s): Thomas Saaty
The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and its generalization to dependence and feedback, the Analytic Network Process (ANP), are methods of relative measurement of tangibles and intangibles. Being able to derive such measurements is essential for making good decisions. This book is based on the An...

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The Encyclicon, Volume 1

Author(s): Thomas Saaty, Mujgan Sagir Özdemir
The Encyclicon: a Dictionary of Applications of Decision Making with Dependence and Feedback based on the Analytic Network Process Volume 1 has a very comprehensive chapter that describes the Analytic Network Process and a step by step description on how to design and implement a Benefits - Oppo...

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The Encyclicon, Volume 2

Author(s): Thomas Saaty, Brady Cillo
The Encyclicon is a dictionary of examples of the Analytic Network Process (ANP) for decision making with dependence and feedback. This is the second volume of The Encyclicon, an encyclopedia of ANP examples. This volume illustrates over 80 real-world examples of decisions made using the ANP. The...

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The Encyclicon, Volume 3

Author(s): Thomas Saaty, Luis Vargas
Volume 3 of The Encyclicon extends the number of real-world Analytic Network Process (ANP) decisions that have been catalogued. It includes complex decisions that factor in Benefits, Opportunities, Costs and Risks, predictions and market share estimations, all of which may involve intangible fact...

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The Encyclicon, Volume 4

Author(s): Thomas Saaty, Madjid Tavana
Volume 4 has a very large number of more recent case studies and takes a closer look to the building process of the Benefits - Opportunities-Costs and Risks models using AHP top level networks, rating of the B,O, C, R with the help of the strategic criteria and ANP bottom level networks.

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Optimization in Integers

Author(s): Thomas Saaty
"This text, the first of its kind, surveys the entire field of optimization in integers. It is designed for students of mathematics, engineering, science, social science, and operations research. It will stimulate and excite the reader's interest in the elementary methods and ideas. of di...

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Non Linear Mathematics Vol. I

Author(s): Thomas Saaty, Joseph Bram
We are surrounded and deeply involved, in the natural world, with non- linear events which are not necessarily mathematical, the authors write. For example . . . the nonlinear problem of pedalling a bicycle up and down a hillside. On a grand scale . . . the struggle for existence between two spec...

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Non Linear Mathematics Vol. II

Author(s): Thomas Saaty
Nonlinear equations have existed for hundreds of years; their systematic study, however, is a relatively recent phenomenon. This volume, together with its companion', Nonlinear Matliematics Vol. I, provides exceptionally comprehensive coverage of this recently formed area of study. It encomp...

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Creative Thinking, Problem Solving & Decision Making

Author(s): Thomas Saaty
In this new printing beautiful original paintings of the creative process have been added. The rest of the book has the original rich collection of ideas, incorporating research by a growing body of researchers and practitioners, profiles of creative people, projects and products, theory, philoso...

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The Brain: Unraveling the Mystery of How it Works, The Neural Network Process

Author(s): Thomas Saaty
This work confirms what many contemporary thinkers have claimed: that all human actions, sensations, thoughts and even emotions are derived from the synthesis of neural firings in the brain. This book offers the mathematics to describe how this happens and the nature of their interaction, feedbac...

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The Logic of Priorities

Author(s): Thomas Saaty, Luis Vargas
This book is divided into five parts: prioritization, applications of prioritization, planning, resource allocation and prediction. There are applications of the Analytic Hierarchy Process in these five areas in business, energy, health and transportation. The planning examples include forward an...

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Creative Thinking, Problem Solving and Decision Making (Arabic)

Author(s): Thomas Saaty
للإبداع دور هام في تطوير الحياة وتحسين نوعيتها، فمن خلال التفكير الإبداعي يساهم كل منا في رفاهية الناس مجتمعين. يفتح هذا الكتاب السهل الممتنع مجالات لمواضيع قد تكون غير مألوفة لدي الكثير من القراء ويتيح الفرصة لهم لاكتشاف قوي الإبداع الكامنة فيهم. يتضمن هذا الكتاب مجموعة ثرية من الأفكار وخلاصة أب...

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Creative Thinking, Problem Solving and Decision Making (Farsi)

Author(s): Thomas Saaty
The book includes seven chapters and one attachment. First press of the book has been published in 1386 and second press is being published spring 1392.Creative thinking, problem solving and decision making is a rich collection of creative ideas, and experiences with examples at the end of each c...

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Toma De Decisiones Para Lideres (Spanish)

Author(s): Thomas Saaty
This book is the 2nd Spanish edition of the well known "Decision Making for Leaders". It is about how to make decisions using the Analytic Hierarchy Process. The basics of the theory are described in a clear, non-technical manner with many examples. It is suitable for business leaders and...

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Decision Making for Leaders (Arabic)

Author(s): Thomas Saaty
This translated book is a book of case studies in multicriteria decision-making using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). The basics of the theory are described in a clear, non-technical manner with many examples. Methods are given for calculating best options using simple arithmetic. Suitable ...

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Theory and Applications of the ANP (Farsi)

Author(s): Thomas Saaty
The book includes eight chapters and one attachment. Chapter one presents decision making, Analytic Hierarchy Process and Network Process (AHP/ANP), second, third and fourth chapters describe fundamentals of the Analytic Network Process and its applications with benefits, opportunities, costs an...

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Il Decision Making e I Sistemi Decisionali Multicriterio Le Metodologie AHP e ANP (Italian)

Author(s): Thomas Saaty
The rapidly increasing complexity of the world makes all its problems very interdependent so that what happens in one place can cause major ripples all over the world. Decision making is fundamental to furthering our goal of survival and ensuring the quality of our life.To be a person is to be a ...

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Decision Making with Dependence and Feedback (Russian)

Author(s): Thomas Saaty
The Russian translation of the book by Thomas L. Saaty Decision Making with Dependence and Feedback. The Analytic Hierarchy Process". The book describes fundamentals of Analytic Hierarchy Process and Analytic Network Process

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Creative Thinking, Problem Solving and Decision Making (Italian)

Author(s): Thomas Saaty
This book is the Italian translation of the book Creative Thinking Pensiero creativo, problem solving e decision making rappresentano tre elementi essenziali in qualsiasi processo decisionale. Questo libro nasce dalle lezioni sulla creatività tenute dal professore Thomas L. Saaty, ideatore dell...

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Decision Making for Leaders

Author(s): Thomas Saaty
This is a book of case studies in multicriteria decision-making using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). The basics of the theory are described in a clear, non-technical manner with many examples. Methods are given for calculating best options using simple arithmetic. Suitable for business lea...

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Compact City: the next urban evolution in response to climate change

Author(s): Thomas Saaty
We need to control nature by eliminating its capricious threats to our lives. We do it best by not only making our living, working , sports and other leisure structures more accessible in space, but also by minimizing and banishing congestions and the need for long times to commute to work or to ...

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The Neural Network Process (NNP): Generalization of the AHP and ANP to the Continuous Case of Neural Firing

Author(s): Thomas Saaty
This book generalizes the discrete mathematics of decision making to the continuous mathematics required to model the firing and synthesis of neurons in the brain and nervous system. Making comparisons as we do in decision making is intrinsic in all of our biology and behavior, and at the atomist...

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Applications and Theory of Analytic Hierarchy Process

Author(s): Fabio De Felice, Thomas Saaty, Antonella Petrillo
The purpose of this book is to provide an introduction to the theory and applications in the field of decision making, especially focused on Analytic Hierarchy Process, a structured technique for organizing and analyzing complex decisions, based on mathematics and psychology. It was developed by ...

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