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Paper results for keyword: BOCRShould the UK have Brexited the European Union?
Lirong Wei, Thomas SaatyJournal: International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy ProcessThis paper is an analysis of Brexit, and asked the question, Should the UK have Brexited the European Union? We use the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to model the decision based on Benefit-Opportunities-Costs and Risks (BOCR). The AHP structure considers various factors that may be taken into...
Read MoreA marijuana legalization model using benefits, opportunities, costs and risks (BOCR) analysis
Thomas SaatyJournal: International Journal of Strategic Decision Sciences Marijuana has been regarded as an evil in our society because of abuse and addiction. However, its legalization and use in several states have shown that from the standpoint of its benefits, opportunities, costs and risks (BOCR) the overall decision should be to legalize it in our greater society...
Read MoreChoosing the best city of the future
Thomas Saaty, Mujgan Sagir OzdemirJournal: Journal of Urban ManagementThis paper describes various possibilities of the cities of futures considering various constraints and demand of society, environment and geography. The need for future cities arises because of the rapid growth in population and thereby causing a decline in the living standards. In the United St...
Read MoreAbout a hundred years of creativity in decision making
Thomas SaatyJournal: International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy ProcessCan all the methods people invented to do decision making be right all the time? Maybe for making trivial decisions, but not in the case of those that involve dependence and feedback and need complete analysis of benefits, opportunities, costs and risks to get an overall justifiable outcome.
Read MoreNegotiating the Israeli–Palestinian controversy from a new perspective
Thomas Saaty, H. J. ZofferJournal: Information Technology & Decision MakingIn most long-lasting conflicts, each party's grievances increase while the concessions they are willing to make decline in number, quality, and perceived value. Both parties lose sight of what they are willing to settle for, generally exaggerate their own needs, and minimize the needs of the ...
Read MoreRank from comparisons and from ratings in the Analytic Hierarchy/Network Processes
Thomas SaatyJournal: European Journal of Operational ResearchRank preservation and reversal are important subjects in multi-criteria decision-making particularly if a theory uses only one of two ways of creating priorities: rating alternatives one at a time with respect to an ideal or standard, or comparing them in pairs. It is known that our minds can do ...
Read MoreFundamentals of the Analytic Network Process—multiple networks with benefits, costs, opportunities and risks
Thomas SaatyJournal: Journal of systems science and systems engineeringThe general theory of the ANP enables one to deal with the benefits, opportunities, costs, and risks (the BOCR merits) of a decision, by introducing the notion of negative priorities for C and R along with the rating (not comparison) of the top priority alternative synthesized for each of the fou...
Read MoreNegative priorities in the Analytic Hierarchy Process
Thomas Saaty, Mujgan Sagir OzdemirIn decision-making, there are often criteria that are opposite in direction to other criteria as in benefits (B) versus costs (C), and in opportunities (O) versus risks (R), and sometimes need to be distinguished by using negative numbers. In making paired comparisons of alternatives with respect...
Read MoreKnapsack allocation of multiple resources in benefit-cost analysis by way of the Analytic Hierarchy Process
James Benne, Thomas SaatyJournal: Mathematical and computer modellingBenefit-cost analysis has traditionally required monetary measures of benefits and costs of candidate projects. This paper demonstrates that priorities of both tangible and intangible attributes can be used in a benefit-cost setting to address the long standing problem of allocating multiple reso...
Read MoreConflict resolution and the falkland islands invasions
Thomas SaatyJournal: InterfacesThe analytic hierarchy process (AHP) is compared with game and metagame theories for analyzing conflicts. The AHP helps to structure the problem, generate and synthesize judgments, and carry out a benefit/cost analysis of various policies. The Falkland Islands crisis is examined using the judgmen...
Read MoreUsing ANP and BOCR Structure for Location Analysis of Plywood and Veneer Industry Plants, the Case of Iran
Majid Azizi, S. Amiri , M. ModarresJournal: Journal of the Institute of Wood ScienceThe aim of this article is to show how to select the best location for the establishment of wood industry units in Iran. The decision is examined in a framework of benefits, opportunities, costs, and risks (the BOCR), called the merits of the decision. A hierarchy is used to prioritize the BOCR t...
Read MoreDecision making for selection of suitable location for plywood and veneer manufacturing units in Iran
Majid Azizi, S. Amiri, M. ModarresJournal: Iranian Journal of Natural ResourcesThe objective of this paper is to develop a method for selecting the most suitable location for establishing wood industry unit. Decision making is examined within the framework of benefits, opportunities, costs, and risks (BOCR), called the merits of the decision. A hierarchy is developed to pri...
Read MoreA strategic model for location selection of wood industry, an application of ANP
Majid Azizi, Mohammad ModarresJournal: Journal of Applied SciencesThe objective of this research is to design a method for selection of an appropriate location to establish plywood and veneer plants in Iran. Due to the climate of this region as well as the destruction of the forests and lack of proper plantation, the supporting forests to feed this industry are...
Read MoreApplying ANP for raw material supply in Iranian paper industry
Majid Azizi, Mohammad ModarresJournal: OR Insight volumeThe aim of this paper is to develop a strategic plan for selecting the best options for the supply of raw material to feed paper producing plants. The decision-making is examined within the framework of benefits, opportunities, costs, and risks (BOCR). A hierarchy is used to prioritize the BOCR, ...
Read MoreA model of supplying poplar wood for Iranian paper & wood factories
Majid AziziJournal: Journal of Forestry ResearchThe objective of this research is to design a method for an appropriate alternative to supply poplar wood as raw material for wood and paper factories in Iran. Due to the destruction of the forests and lack of proper plantation, replacement of the forest wood by the fast growing wood is vital to ...
Read MoreA decision model to select facial tissue raw material, a case from Iran
Majid Azizi, Mohammad ModarresJournal: OR InsightThe objective of this research is to design an approach for selecting appropriate raw materials for facial tissues in Iran. There are three possibilities to maintain raw materials: (1) imported virgin pulp; (2) bagasse (sugar cane residue) plus some imported raw materials; and (3) recycled paper ...
Read MoreA decision making model for investment and development of construction panels
Majid Azizi, Mohammad ModarresJournal: Journal of Forestry ResearchA study was conducted to select the best alternative for the development of construction panels as well as investment in its manufacturing in Iran. Three alternatives are considered, cement-bonded wood composite product, substituted products (such as concrete panel) sandwich panel and a mixture o...
Read MoreA BOCR structure for privatisation effective criteria of Iran newsprint paper industry
Majid Azizi, Mansooreh AzizpourJournal: International Journal of Production ResearchThe privatisation of the Iran newsprint industry has caused an increase in production and decrease in importation. Recognition of effective criteria in newsprint privatisation will accelerate privatisation of the industry. The goal of the research is expediting privatisation in the Iran newsprint...
Read MoreA comparative model of kinds of composite wood regarding customers’ perspective using Analytic Network Process
Majid Azizi, Fatemeh Sarfi, Mehdi Faezipour, Amin ArianJournal: International Journal of Multicriteria Decision MakingIn order to compare composite wood in Iran, a hierarchy was designed to prioritise benefits, opportunities, costs and risks using analytic hierarchy process rating approach. BOCR structure was determined by providing questionnaires and collecting data from knowledgeable persons who were consumers...
Read MoreThe application of Analytical Network Process to environmental prioritizing criteria for coastal oil jetties site selection in Persian Gulf coasts (Iran)
Mansoureh Hasanzadeh, Afshin Danehkar, Majid AziziJournal: Ocean & Coastal Management Oil jetties are among the most effective land structures, which have cause a different potential for coastal environment destruction. These effects relate to the oil products of these industries that cause extensive oil pollution in coastal regions. Thus, the identification and prioritization of ...
Read MoreApplying ANP to analyze the role of design in the furniture industry
Majid Azizi, Gholamreza MehdikhanlooJournal: International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy ProcessThis study was carried out due to the severe dearth of research on the role of design in furniture production and the furniture market in Iran. Accordingly, this research proposes a decision making model to select the best solution for the role of design in this industry. The four possibilities t...
Read MoreAnalysis of Marketing strategic planning in the home furniture industry by applying ANP: a case study of the Iranian home furniture industry
Majid Azizi, Hamzehali MansouriJournal: International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy ProcessThis study was carried out because of the lack of research on strategic planning in Iran's home furniture market. Accordingly, in this study, we developed a decision-making model to select the best solution for strategic planning in the industry. After determining the strategic criteria or fa...
Read MoreReflections: Mathematical principles of decision making
Birsen KarpakJournal: International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy ProcessThis article discusses my reflections on Mathematical Principles of Decision Making by Thomas Saaty  (Saaty T. L., 2010). In this book, Saaty very clearly explains his Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) theory for measuring both tangible and intangible factors. Experts judgments are elicited about...
Read More
Should the UK have Brexited the European Union?
Lirong Wei, Thomas SaatyJournal: International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy ProcessThis paper is an analysis of Brexit, and asked the question, Should the UK have Brexited the European Union? We use the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to model the decision based on Benefit-Opportunities-Costs and Risks (BOCR). The AHP structure considers various factors that may be taken into...
Read MoreA marijuana legalization model using benefits, opportunities, costs and risks (BOCR) analysis
Thomas SaatyJournal: International Journal of Strategic Decision Sciences Marijuana has been regarded as an evil in our society because of abuse and addiction. However, its legalization and use in several states have shown that from the standpoint of its benefits, opportunities, costs and risks (BOCR) the overall decision should be to legalize it in our greater society...
Read MoreChoosing the best city of the future
Thomas Saaty, Mujgan Sagir OzdemirJournal: Journal of Urban ManagementThis paper describes various possibilities of the cities of futures considering various constraints and demand of society, environment and geography. The need for future cities arises because of the rapid growth in population and thereby causing a decline in the living standards. In the United St...
Read MoreAbout a hundred years of creativity in decision making
Thomas SaatyJournal: International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy ProcessCan all the methods people invented to do decision making be right all the time? Maybe for making trivial decisions, but not in the case of those that involve dependence and feedback and need complete analysis of benefits, opportunities, costs and risks to get an overall justifiable outcome.
Read MoreNegotiating the Israeli–Palestinian controversy from a new perspective
Thomas Saaty, H. J. ZofferJournal: Information Technology & Decision MakingIn most long-lasting conflicts, each party's grievances increase while the concessions they are willing to make decline in number, quality, and perceived value. Both parties lose sight of what they are willing to settle for, generally exaggerate their own needs, and minimize the needs of the ...
Read MoreRank from comparisons and from ratings in the Analytic Hierarchy/Network Processes
Thomas SaatyJournal: European Journal of Operational ResearchRank preservation and reversal are important subjects in multi-criteria decision-making particularly if a theory uses only one of two ways of creating priorities: rating alternatives one at a time with respect to an ideal or standard, or comparing them in pairs. It is known that our minds can do ...
Read MoreFundamentals of the Analytic Network Process—multiple networks with benefits, costs, opportunities and risks
Thomas SaatyJournal: Journal of systems science and systems engineeringThe general theory of the ANP enables one to deal with the benefits, opportunities, costs, and risks (the BOCR merits) of a decision, by introducing the notion of negative priorities for C and R along with the rating (not comparison) of the top priority alternative synthesized for each of the fou...
Read MoreNegative priorities in the Analytic Hierarchy Process
Thomas Saaty, Mujgan Sagir OzdemirIn decision-making, there are often criteria that are opposite in direction to other criteria as in benefits (B) versus costs (C), and in opportunities (O) versus risks (R), and sometimes need to be distinguished by using negative numbers. In making paired comparisons of alternatives with respect...
Read MoreKnapsack allocation of multiple resources in benefit-cost analysis by way of the Analytic Hierarchy Process
James Benne, Thomas SaatyJournal: Mathematical and computer modellingBenefit-cost analysis has traditionally required monetary measures of benefits and costs of candidate projects. This paper demonstrates that priorities of both tangible and intangible attributes can be used in a benefit-cost setting to address the long standing problem of allocating multiple reso...
Read MoreConflict resolution and the falkland islands invasions
Thomas SaatyJournal: InterfacesThe analytic hierarchy process (AHP) is compared with game and metagame theories for analyzing conflicts. The AHP helps to structure the problem, generate and synthesize judgments, and carry out a benefit/cost analysis of various policies. The Falkland Islands crisis is examined using the judgmen...
Read MoreUsing ANP and BOCR Structure for Location Analysis of Plywood and Veneer Industry Plants, the Case of Iran
Majid Azizi, S. Amiri , M. ModarresJournal: Journal of the Institute of Wood ScienceThe aim of this article is to show how to select the best location for the establishment of wood industry units in Iran. The decision is examined in a framework of benefits, opportunities, costs, and risks (the BOCR), called the merits of the decision. A hierarchy is used to prioritize the BOCR t...
Read MoreDecision making for selection of suitable location for plywood and veneer manufacturing units in Iran
Majid Azizi, S. Amiri, M. ModarresJournal: Iranian Journal of Natural ResourcesThe objective of this paper is to develop a method for selecting the most suitable location for establishing wood industry unit. Decision making is examined within the framework of benefits, opportunities, costs, and risks (BOCR), called the merits of the decision. A hierarchy is developed to pri...
Read MoreA strategic model for location selection of wood industry, an application of ANP
Majid Azizi, Mohammad ModarresJournal: Journal of Applied SciencesThe objective of this research is to design a method for selection of an appropriate location to establish plywood and veneer plants in Iran. Due to the climate of this region as well as the destruction of the forests and lack of proper plantation, the supporting forests to feed this industry are...
Read MoreApplying ANP for raw material supply in Iranian paper industry
Majid Azizi, Mohammad ModarresJournal: OR Insight volumeThe aim of this paper is to develop a strategic plan for selecting the best options for the supply of raw material to feed paper producing plants. The decision-making is examined within the framework of benefits, opportunities, costs, and risks (BOCR). A hierarchy is used to prioritize the BOCR, ...
Read MoreA model of supplying poplar wood for Iranian paper & wood factories
Majid AziziJournal: Journal of Forestry ResearchThe objective of this research is to design a method for an appropriate alternative to supply poplar wood as raw material for wood and paper factories in Iran. Due to the destruction of the forests and lack of proper plantation, replacement of the forest wood by the fast growing wood is vital to ...
Read MoreA decision model to select facial tissue raw material, a case from Iran
Majid Azizi, Mohammad ModarresJournal: OR InsightThe objective of this research is to design an approach for selecting appropriate raw materials for facial tissues in Iran. There are three possibilities to maintain raw materials: (1) imported virgin pulp; (2) bagasse (sugar cane residue) plus some imported raw materials; and (3) recycled paper ...
Read MoreA decision making model for investment and development of construction panels
Majid Azizi, Mohammad ModarresJournal: Journal of Forestry ResearchA study was conducted to select the best alternative for the development of construction panels as well as investment in its manufacturing in Iran. Three alternatives are considered, cement-bonded wood composite product, substituted products (such as concrete panel) sandwich panel and a mixture o...
Read MoreA BOCR structure for privatisation effective criteria of Iran newsprint paper industry
Majid Azizi, Mansooreh AzizpourJournal: International Journal of Production ResearchThe privatisation of the Iran newsprint industry has caused an increase in production and decrease in importation. Recognition of effective criteria in newsprint privatisation will accelerate privatisation of the industry. The goal of the research is expediting privatisation in the Iran newsprint...
Read MoreA comparative model of kinds of composite wood regarding customers’ perspective using Analytic Network Process
Majid Azizi, Fatemeh Sarfi, Mehdi Faezipour, Amin ArianJournal: International Journal of Multicriteria Decision MakingIn order to compare composite wood in Iran, a hierarchy was designed to prioritise benefits, opportunities, costs and risks using analytic hierarchy process rating approach. BOCR structure was determined by providing questionnaires and collecting data from knowledgeable persons who were consumers...
Read MoreThe application of Analytical Network Process to environmental prioritizing criteria for coastal oil jetties site selection in Persian Gulf coasts (Iran)
Mansoureh Hasanzadeh, Afshin Danehkar, Majid AziziJournal: Ocean & Coastal Management Oil jetties are among the most effective land structures, which have cause a different potential for coastal environment destruction. These effects relate to the oil products of these industries that cause extensive oil pollution in coastal regions. Thus, the identification and prioritization of ...
Read MoreApplying ANP to analyze the role of design in the furniture industry
Majid Azizi, Gholamreza MehdikhanlooJournal: International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy ProcessThis study was carried out due to the severe dearth of research on the role of design in furniture production and the furniture market in Iran. Accordingly, this research proposes a decision making model to select the best solution for the role of design in this industry. The four possibilities t...
Read MoreAnalysis of Marketing strategic planning in the home furniture industry by applying ANP: a case study of the Iranian home furniture industry
Majid Azizi, Hamzehali MansouriJournal: International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy ProcessThis study was carried out because of the lack of research on strategic planning in Iran's home furniture market. Accordingly, in this study, we developed a decision-making model to select the best solution for strategic planning in the industry. After determining the strategic criteria or fa...
Read MoreReflections: Mathematical principles of decision making
Birsen KarpakJournal: International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy ProcessThis article discusses my reflections on Mathematical Principles of Decision Making by Thomas Saaty  (Saaty T. L., 2010). In this book, Saaty very clearly explains his Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) theory for measuring both tangible and intangible factors. Experts judgments are elicited about...
Read More