Pub Date : 2020-12-23DOI: 10.13033/ijahp.v12i3.842
Enrique Mu
The AHP/ANP future seems bright for the next generation of scholars and practitioners judging from the themes emerging from ISAHP2020 virtual conference in December. In this essay, I will visit the academic themes and messages derived from the keynote and plenary speakers that presented their ideas at the conference.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-23DOI: 10.13033/ijahp.v12i3.720
Praveen Goyal, Divesh Kumar, Vinod Kumar
Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis is a decision-making technique that is used by practitioners and frequently discussed and applied by researchers. This present study attempts to review the literature of applications of MCDA techniques in the area of sustainability using citation analysis. For the data collection, the Scopus database was used. With the help of related keywords, 701 research papers were identified and found suitable for analysis. These papers were then analyzed based on country, author, citation, year, and other criteria to demonstrate the pattern of research applying MCDA in sustainability. The CiteSpace tool was also used to present the clusters, citation analysis, and keywords as bursts. The findings of the present study will help future researchers better explore the field.
{"title":"APPLICATION OF MULTICRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS (MCDA) IN THE AREA OF SUSTAINABILITY: A LITERATURE REVIEW","authors":"Praveen Goyal, Divesh Kumar, Vinod Kumar","doi":"10.13033/ijahp.v12i3.720","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v12i3.720","url":null,"abstract":"Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis is a decision-making technique that is used by practitioners and frequently discussed and applied by researchers. This present study attempts to review the literature of applications of MCDA techniques in the area of sustainability using citation analysis. For the data collection, the Scopus database was used. With the help of related keywords, 701 research papers were identified and found suitable for analysis. These papers were then analyzed based on country, author, citation, year, and other criteria to demonstrate the pattern of research applying MCDA in sustainability. The CiteSpace tool was also used to present the clusters, citation analysis, and keywords as bursts. The findings of the present study will help future researchers better explore the field.","PeriodicalId":37297,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45984350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-12-23DOI: 10.13033/ijahp.v12i3.814
Arpan Garg, T. Ganesh
The long duration of the COVID-19 pandemic has now compelled people to come out of their cells and begin engaging in various activities using different modes and in different places, which involves a high risk of being infected by COVID-19. This work aims to analyze the degree of the risk involved in such activities with the implementation of the latest re-open and unlock phase in India, the second most COVID-19 affected country. Seven important activities and the mode and place of conducting these activities are considered as the main criteria and sub-criteria of this study. The responses are formed with a pairwise comparison matrix, and an Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) approach is used to calculate the criteria/sub-criteria weights. An integrated AHP analysis output representation consisting of the degree of risk, grades, ranking, and major reasons of risk for each criterion and sub-criteria of this work is presented. This risk assessment study may help identify risky activities so that people can choose other available alternatives.
{"title":"AN ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS APPROACH FOR COVID-19 RISK ASSESSMENT STUDY AMID THE LATEST RE-OPEN AND UNLOCK PHASE IN INDIA","authors":"Arpan Garg, T. Ganesh","doi":"10.13033/ijahp.v12i3.814","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v12i3.814","url":null,"abstract":"The long duration of the COVID-19 pandemic has now compelled people to come out of their cells and begin engaging in various activities using different modes and in different places, which involves a high risk of being infected by COVID-19. This work aims to analyze the degree of the risk involved in such activities with the implementation of the latest re-open and unlock phase in India, the second most COVID-19 affected country. Seven important activities and the mode and place of conducting these activities are considered as the main criteria and sub-criteria of this study. The responses are formed with a pairwise comparison matrix, and an Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) approach is used to calculate the criteria/sub-criteria weights. An integrated AHP analysis output representation consisting of the degree of risk, grades, ranking, and major reasons of risk for each criterion and sub-criteria of this work is presented. This risk assessment study may help identify risky activities so that people can choose other available alternatives.","PeriodicalId":37297,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42505098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-12-23DOI: 10.13033/ijahp.v12i3.743
Amanish Lohan, A. Ganguly, C. Kumar
Emerging economies across the globe have observed drastic changes in consumer purchasing behavior in the last three decades. This has been attributed to rapid globalization, coupled with technological advancement that has led to consumer affinity towards foreign brands. In this paper an attempt has been made to understand this affinity towards foreign brands across product categories. We used the Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process to evaluate the factors that influence foreign product purchasing behavior among Indian consumers. A set of five important influencing factors were identified and responses from over 100 Indian consumers were collected across five product categories (automobiles, home appliances, apparel, cosmetics and watches). It was found that for apparel, watches and cosmetics, perceived quality of the brand/product was the most valued attribute. Whereas, for home appliances the country of origin mattered the most, and for watches perceived quality as well as country of manufacture were equally important. The findings of this study will help shape marketing strategies for foreign brands trying to make inroads or gain market share in emerging markets like India
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Pub Date : 2020-12-23DOI: 10.13033/ijahp.v12i3.843
R. Saaty
Participants from more than 30 countries attended the first virtual conference of the International Symposium of the AHP (ISAHP) in December 3-6, 2020, sponsored by Creative Decisions Foundation. It was the 16th ISAHP conference since the first in 1988 at Tianjin University, Tianjin, China. The ISAHP2020 is a biennial event that takes place in even years, but it was cancelled in January because of Covid19 fears. It was brought back to life in late summer when the board of Creative Decisions Foundation agreed to sponsor a virtual conference in December. Planning a conference usually takes much more than the few months that remained until the end of the year, so expectations were modest, but the AHP community rose to support it in a major way.
{"title":"ISAHP2020 Virtual Conference","authors":"R. Saaty","doi":"10.13033/ijahp.v12i3.843","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v12i3.843","url":null,"abstract":"Participants from more than 30 countries attended the first virtual conference of the International Symposium of the AHP (ISAHP) in December 3-6, 2020, sponsored by Creative Decisions Foundation. It was the 16th ISAHP conference since the first in 1988 at Tianjin University, Tianjin, China. The ISAHP2020 is a biennial event that takes place in even years, but it was cancelled in January because of Covid19 fears. It was brought back to life in late summer when the board of Creative Decisions Foundation agreed to sponsor a virtual conference in December. Planning a conference usually takes much more than the few months that remained until the end of the year, so expectations were modest, but the AHP community rose to support it in a major way.","PeriodicalId":37297,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46797112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-12-23DOI: 10.13033/ijahp.v12i3.844
Enrique Mu
More than 128 participants from 30 countries attended the 16th ISAHP meeting of the International Symposium of the AHP (ISAHP2020) that took place for the first time in cyberspace rather than in a physical place.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-23DOI: 10.13033/ijahp.v12i3.696
Raman Kumar, Harwinder Singh, Amrinder Singh
Vendor selection is the first step in the product realization process that starts with the purchasing of materials and ends with delivering the products. The objective of the present research is to select the best vendor in a leading automobile organization. The multi-criteria decision making techniques of fuzzy quality function deployment (QFD) and the Analytical Network Process (ANP) were applied to achieve reliable results. A case study of a manufacturing unit in northern India was used to validate the proposed framework. The output of the QFD showed the pre-qualified vendors as V3, V2 and V7 with relative user requirement (RUR) values of 0.188, 0.145 and 0.134, respectively. The final ranking of the vendors is presented using the ANP model.
{"title":"A FRAMEWORK FOR EVALUATION OF VENDORS IN AUTOMOTIVE SECTOR","authors":"Raman Kumar, Harwinder Singh, Amrinder Singh","doi":"10.13033/ijahp.v12i3.696","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v12i3.696","url":null,"abstract":"Vendor selection is the first step in the product realization process that starts with the purchasing of materials and ends with delivering the products. The objective of the present research is to select the best vendor in a leading automobile organization. The multi-criteria decision making techniques of fuzzy quality function deployment (QFD) and the Analytical Network Process (ANP) were applied to achieve reliable results. A case study of a manufacturing unit in northern India was used to validate the proposed framework. The output of the QFD showed the pre-qualified vendors as V3, V2 and V7 with relative user requirement (RUR) values of 0.188, 0.145 and 0.134, respectively. The final ranking of the vendors is presented using the ANP model.","PeriodicalId":37297,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43142303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-12-01DOI: 10.13033/ijahp.v12i3.801
S. Lipovetsky
Various methods of priority vector estimation are known in the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). They include the classical eigenproblem method given by Thomas Saaty, developments in least squares and the multiplicative approach, robust estimation based on transformation of the pairwise ratios to the shares of preferences, and other approaches. In this paper, the priority vectors are completed with validation of data consistency, comparisons of vectors’ compatibility, and estimation of precision for matrix approximation by vectors. The numerical results for different data sizes and consistency show that the considered methods reveal useful features, are simple and convenient, and capable of facilitating practical applications of the AHP in solving various multiple-criteria decision making problems.
{"title":"PRIORITY VECTOR ESTIMATION: CONSISTENCY, COMPATIBILITY, PRECISION","authors":"S. Lipovetsky","doi":"10.13033/ijahp.v12i3.801","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v12i3.801","url":null,"abstract":"Various methods of priority vector estimation are known in the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). They include the classical eigenproblem method given by Thomas Saaty, developments in least squares and the multiplicative approach, robust estimation based on transformation of the pairwise ratios to the shares of preferences, and other approaches. In this paper, the priority vectors are completed with validation of data consistency, comparisons of vectors’ compatibility, and estimation of precision for matrix approximation by vectors. The numerical results for different data sizes and consistency show that the considered methods reveal useful features, are simple and convenient, and capable of facilitating practical applications of the AHP in solving various multiple-criteria decision making problems.","PeriodicalId":37297,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47590631","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-08-28DOI: 10.13033/ijahp.v12i2.711
J. Chaudhari, R. Wasu, A. Sarode
In a global economy characterized by environmental, social and economic factors, environmental sustainability is currently one of the main concerns of industry and the economic sector. A large number of periodicals and special volumes related to the sustainable supply chain have been published. This paper intends to identify the drivers for sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) implementation. Twenty-eight enablers were identified and categorized using an extensive literature survey to improve the effectiveness of SSCM implementation. The authors attempted to identify the drivers/enablers and constructed a framework, which analyzed the SSCM using the AHP.
{"title":"RANKING DIFFERENT ENABLERS/DRIVERS OF SUSTAINABLE SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT BY USING AHP IN INDIAN MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES","authors":"J. Chaudhari, R. Wasu, A. Sarode","doi":"10.13033/ijahp.v12i2.711","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v12i2.711","url":null,"abstract":"In a global economy characterized by environmental, social and economic factors, environmental sustainability is currently one of the main concerns of industry and the economic sector. A large number of periodicals and special volumes related to the sustainable supply chain have been published. This paper intends to identify the drivers for sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) implementation. Twenty-eight enablers were identified and categorized using an extensive literature survey to improve the effectiveness of SSCM implementation. The authors attempted to identify the drivers/enablers and constructed a framework, which analyzed the SSCM using the AHP.","PeriodicalId":37297,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48975799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-08-28DOI: 10.13033/ijahp.v12i1.726
G. Marcarelli, M. Rossi, Antonella Ferrarro, A. Lucadamo
An investment choice can be influenced by numerous qualitative and quantitative factors that often conflict with one other. Therefore, portfolio management choice is a multi-criteria decision problem that requires flexible and analytic decision tools for investors. For this task, the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is suitable. We propose an AHP group-based model to analyze an investment choice problem looking at two financial markets including Spain and France. The evaluation criteria that we used in our model are the return of the stock market, performance of government bonds and calendar effects in the financial markets. The 2017 French and Spanish equity market returns and the government bond performances for each country are available in public databases. Mean tests were performed in order to analyze calendar anomalies for both of the markets from 2007-2017. The aim of our study is to propose a model that allows simultaneous evaluation of the impact of the previously mentioned factors on investment choice. Our analysis involves 69 students from the Department DEMM of the University of Sannio (Italy) who have worked on financial market simulators. The data were obtained using questionnaires. The common priority vector procedure (CPVP) was used to determine the individual priorities (derived by individual judgments matrices) and aggregate the individual priorities (derived by individual judgments matrices) to obtain the group preferences. The results show that the decision makers prefer to invest in diversified portfolios.
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