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).

Search papers by keyword:

Paper results for keyword: Clustering

Misuse of the Axiom of Independence in the Analytic Hierarchy process

Kirti Peniwati, David Hauser
Journal: The 3rd International Symposium on the Analytic Hierarchy Process
Some authors have proposed that the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) axiom of independence be relaxed to accommodate observations drawn from: a) examples of pairwise comparisons of alternatives in clusters in single criterion AHP problems, and b) examples of problems in which the criteria have th...

Read More
Misuses of Clustering and Absolute Scales of Measurement in the Analytic Hierarchy process

Kirti Peniwati
Journal: The 3rd International Symposium on the Analytic Hierarchy Process
The grouping of elements, called clustering, is a fundamental operation in the Analytic Hierarchy Process. What elements are chosen and how they are clustered and located in a hierarchy have a profound effect on the outcome and the conclusions derived from the outcome. A valid AHP hierarchy must ...

Read More