ISAHP 2009 Symposium, July 29–August 1, 2009, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

The tenth international symposium on the Analytic Hierarchy Process, ISAHP 2009 will be held from July 29 to August 1, 2009, at the University of Pittsburgh, Katz Graduate School of Business in Pittsburgh, Pennsylania, USA. A special workshop on the ANP will be held on July 29with the main meeting sessions beginning July 30. The University has graciously accepted to provide facilities and help to organize and facilitate the meeting.

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About the Analytic Hierarchy Process

The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is a structured method for helping people deal with complex decisions. It provides a comprehensive and rational framework for structuring a problem, for representing and quantifying its elements, for relating those elements to overall goals, and for evaluating alternative solutions. Rather than prescribing a "correct" decision, the AHP helps people to determine one. Based on mathematics and human psychology, it was developed by Thomas L. Saaty in the 1970s and has been extensively studied and refined since then. It is used throughout the world in a wide variety of decision situations, in fields such as government, business, industry, healthcare, and education. Its most general framework applies to decision making with dependence and feedback and with benefits, opportunities, costs and risks synthesized using strategic criteria with sensitivity applied in determining the stability of the outcome. The AHP/ANP use main core mathematics to derive priorities by making comparisons using the idea of dominance both for criteria, subcriteria and alternatives. It is validated in practice when actual measurements exist or when answers can be derived probabilistically. Thousands of applications around the world have been made using the AHP, not only by researchers but by practitioners, particularly those who allocate resources to projects, to vendors, and to military operations. Dozens of books have been written on the subject along with more than five thousand published articles in a diversity of languages. More about the ISAHP and the AHP/ANP

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