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Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium

on the Analytic Hierarchy Process

Multi-criteria Decision Making

July 8-10, 2005

University of Hawaii

Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

 

                                                                   Online Proceedings

                                                          ISSN 1556-8296      July 2005

 

Conference Chair

Jason Levy

University of Hawaii

jlevy@hawaii.edu

Address after Dec. 2006:

Western Washington Univ.

Bellingham, Washington

USA

Email: Jason.Levy@wwu.edu

 

Honorary Founding Conference Chair

Thomas L. Saaty

University of Pittsburgh

saaty@katz.pitt.edu

Proceedings Editor

Jason Levy

University of Hawaii

jlevy@hawaii.edu

Proceedings Editor

Rozann Saaty

Creative Decisions Foundation

rozann@creativedecisions.net

Conference Secretary

Yvonne Yamashita

University of Hawaii

yvonney@hawaii.edu

Conference Assistants

Made Brunner   <brunner@hawaii.edu>

Shichao Li   <shichao@hawaii.edu>

Run Yu   <run@hawaii.edu>

Jingsong Zhou   <jingsong@hawaii.edu

 

Click here for  Papers and Participants

 

Click here for Copyright information

 

Click here for Abstracts of the presentations in the schedule below

 

SCHEDULE

Thursday July 7, 2005:

 

Garden Room

2:30 - 6 pm: Pre-Conference Registration

 

Friday July 8, 2005:

 

8:00 - 8:10:  Breakfast in Garden Room and on-site Registration

Breakfast is open all morning

 

8:30 am - noon: Keoni Auditorium (ALL)

 

1. 8th ISAHP Chair Welcome: Jason Levy (8:10 am -8:15 am)

 

2. Keynote Address: Eizo Kinoshita (8:15 - 9:00 am)

Title: Why we need AHP/ANP Instead of Utility Theory in Today's Complex World    Paper

 

3. Featured Speaker: Po-Lung Yu, (9:00- 9:45 am) Institute of Information Management, Chiao Tung University Management Building 2, 1001 Ta Hsueh Road, Hsinchu, Taiwan 300, ROC

Title: Empowering AHP with Habitual Domains   Paper

 

4. Featured Speaker: Luis Vargas (9:45 am – 10:15 am) University of Pittsburgh

Title: Dispersion of group judgments: The Geometric Expected Value Operator  Paper

 

Break: 10:15-10:30 am

 

10:30-noon: Keoni Auditorium (ALL)

 

5. University of Hawaii welcome: Vice President, Dr. Linda Johnsrud

 

6. Dr. Richard Chadwick, Political Science Department, University of Hawaii

 

7.  Founder’s Address: Thomas L. Saaty, University of Pittsburgh (10:45 amnoon)

Title: Multi-Decision Decision-Making: In addition to wheeling and dealing our national politics needs a formal approach to prioritization for better decision-making.  How?

Paper

 


Lunch: 12-1 pm in Garden Room

 

 

Parallel Sessions: 1-2:30 pm Friday

 

Keoni Auditorium

AHP Theory I:

Weights & Pairwise Comparisons

 

Session Chair: Claudio Garuti

Koi Room

Economics and Planning I:
Technology and Industry

 

Session Chair: Isabel Spencer

Asia Room

Selection and Choice I:

Environment  and Development

Session Chair: Anna Ostrega

 

 

Sensitivity Analysis of Weights under Incomplete Information

Abstract

 

Masanori OZAWA

(with  Yutaka KATO)

Keio University

Hiroshima 223-8522, Japan

ozawa@ae.keio.ac.jp

 

 

Using ANP for Evaluating Industrial Cluster Effect

Paper

 

Hsiao-Chi Chen (with Joseph Z. Shyu)

Institute of Management of Technology

National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan angela77.mt90g@nctu.edu.tw

 

 

Rural Water Supply And Sanitation In Developing Countries

 Paper

 

Shashi Bhattarai (with M. Starkl)

Integrated Consultants Nepal (ICON) Kathmandu, Nepal

shashi@icon.com.np

 

Questionnaire Design for Surveys: AHP Weighting

Paper

 

Yuji Sato

Graduate School of Policy Science

Mie Chukyo University

Matsusaka, Mie, Japan

ysatoh@mie-chukyo-u.ac.jp

 

AHP and Wafer Foundries

Paper

 

Amy Mei-Chen Lo (with Chun-Yen Chang, Gwo-Hshiung Tzeng, Fang-Mei Tseng)

Institute of Technology Management,

National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

amy_mjlo@yahoo.com

 

 

 

Establishing Rescue Policies for Regional Drinking Water Companies In Indonesia

Paper

 

Kirti Peniwati (with Werner Brenner)

PPM Graduate School of Management

Jakarta, Indonesia

kirti@indo.net.id

 

 

AHP Logarithmic Least Squares Estimation

Paper

 

Masaaki Shinohara (with Keikichi Osawa, Ken Shinohara)

Nihon University

Chiba, Japan

M7sinoha@cit.nihon-u.ac.jp  

 

The Unknown In Decision Making: - The Case of a Network

Paper

 

Müjgan Sağır Ozdemir

Industrial Engineering Department Osmangazi University, Turkey

Mujgano@ogu.edu.tr

 

 

Rural Development:

AHP  Decision Support

Paper

 

Astrid Oddershede (with Arnoldo Arias, Hugo Cancino)

University of Santiago,  Chile

aoddersh@lauca.usach.cl

 

 

 

Faster AHP and ANP Pairwise Comparisons

Paper

 

Kazutomo Nishizawa

College of Industrial Technology, Nihon University

Chiba, Japan

k7nisiza@cit.nihon-u.ac.jp

 

Patent Valuation and AHP

Paper

 

Yu-Jing Chiu (with Yuh-Wen Chen)

Department of Business Administration, Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan

yujing@cycu.edu.tw

 

 

Forestry Models and AHP

Paper

 

Majid Azizi (with Davood Samari, Ali R. Estelaji, , Gholam H. Salehnasa)

Azad University

Tehran, Iran

 

 

AHP Paired Comparisons

Paper

 

Taki Kanda

Bunri University of Hospitality

Sayama, Japan

kanda@bunri-c.ac.jp

 

Material Procurement for Paper Making Factory

Paper

 

Majid Azizi

University of Tehran, Faculty of Natural Resources

Karaj-tehran, Iran

mazizi@ut.ac.ir

 

AHP Applied to Revitalisation of Mine Sites

Paper

 

Anna Ostrega

(with Ryszard Uberman)
AGH University of Science and Technnology
Kraków
, Poland

ostrega@agh.edu.pl

Assigning Faculty course time-slots using AHP

Paper

 

Rafail Gasimov (with Nergiz Ismayilova and Mujgan Ozdemir)

Engineering and Architecture Faculty

Osmangazi University

Eskisehir, Turkey

gasimovr@ogu.edu.tr

 

AHP in Technology Road-mapping

Paper

 

Ming Yu (with C. Yang)

Department of Industrial Engineering

Tsinghua University

Beijing, P.R. China

mingyu@tsinghua.edu.cn

An Integrated Forecasting Approach For Hotels

Paper

 

Sedat Yüksel

Gazi University,

Commerce and Tourism Education Faculty,

Gölbaşı, Ankara, 06830, Turkey

seyuksel@gazi.edu.tr

 

 

 

 

Break: 2:30-2:45        REFRESHMENTS and SNACKS in Garden Room

 

 

Parallel Sessions: 2:45-4:15 pm Friday

Keoni Auditorium

 

AHP Theory II:

Fuzzy AHP

 

Session Chair: Kirti Peniwati

 

Koi Room

 

Economics and Planning II:

Financial Risk Management

 

Session Chair: Bill Wedley

Asia Room

 

Selection and Choice II:

Management and Performance

Session Chair: Rafikul Islam

 

Infrastructure Reconstruction of Devastated Countries

Paper

 

Khaled Nigim (with K.W. Hipel) Computer and Electrical Engineering

University of Waterloo, Canada

knigim@ece.uwaterloo.ca

 

 

AHP and Financial Risk Management

Paper

 

Jerzy Michnik (with Mei-Chen Lo)

Kainan University, Taiwan

michnik@mail.knu.edu.tw

 

 

Motivation & Management: AHP

Paper

 

Dr. Wiktor Adamus
Institute of Economics and Management
Jagiellonian University
,

Krakow, Poland

adamus@uj.edu.pl

 

 

Fuzzy AHP & Non-Store Retailing

Paper

 

Mei-Fang Chen

Tatung University,

Department of Business

Taipei, Taiwan

mfchen@ttu.edu.tw

 

 

Securities Portfolio Modeling For Emerging Markets

Paper

 

Tihomir Hunjak, (with Marijan Cingula)

Faculty of Organization and Informatics

University of Zagreb, Varazdin

Croatia

tihomir.hunjak@foi.hr

 

 

ANP Strategic Model for Safe Pilgrimages

Abstract

 

Asma Bahurmoz

King Abdulaziz University,

P.O. Box 9550

Jeddah, 21423, Saudi Arabia

bahurmoz@kau.edu.sa

 

Fuzzy AHP for R&D Consortia in Taiwan

Paper

 

Hua-Kai Chiou (with Chia-Chin Wan, Gwo-Hshiung Tzeng)

Institute of Management of Technology, National Chiao Tung University,

hkchiou@ebtnet.net

 

Corporate Strategy and

Aichi Expo 2005

Paper

 

Kazuyoshi Yonemoto (with Toshimasa Ozaki)

Management Planning Division, Kawamura Electoric.Inc.

Aichi, Japan

ka-yonemoto@kawamura.co.jp

 

AHP Employee Performance Evaluations

Paper

 

Rafikul Islam (with Shuib bin Mohd Rasad)

International Islamic University

Business Admin. Dept

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

rislam@iiu.edu.my

 

Fuzzy AHP & Restaurant Planning

Paper

 

Heung Suk Hwang (with Wen-Hwa Ko)

Department of Business Admin.

Kainan University, Taiwan

hshwang@mail.knu.edu.tw

 

 

ANP & Highway Corridor Planning

Paper

 

Mongkut Piantanakulchai

Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology

Thammasat University,

Rangsit Campus

Patumthani 12121, Thailand

mongkutp@gmail.com

 

 

Faculty Member Selection: Time and Rank Comparisons

Paper

 

Nur Jumaadzan Zaleha Mamat  (with J.K. Daniel)

Multimedia University

Faculty of Information Technology

Cyberjaya, Selangor,  Malaysia

zaleha@mmu.edu.my

 

Fuzzy Multi-Criteria Decision-Making

for Evaluating the Performance of Mutual Funds

Paper

 

Shin-yun Wang (with Cheng-Few Lee, Gwo-Hshiung Tzeng)  

Chung Kuo Institute of Technology

Department of International Trade

Taiwan, R.O.C.

grace.ms90g@nctu.edu.tw

 

 

AHP & Vendor Selection

Paper

 

Birsen Karpak (with Ozden Bayazit)

Department of Management

Youngstown State University

Youngstown, OH 44555 USA

bkarpak@ysu.edu

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friday night Buffet dinner: 5 pm – 7 pm

Hosted by Tom and Rozann Saaty

 

 

Saturday, July 9, 2005

 

8:00 am- 8:15 am: Breakfast in Keoni Auditorium (ALL)

 

Breakfast in Garden Room open all morning

 

Keoni Auditorium (ALL)

 

Featured Speaker: Claudio Garuti, Fulcrum Engineering Ltd.

Santiago, Chile (8:15-8:45 am)

Title: Shiftwork Prioritization, AHP and ANP   Paper 1 , Paper 2

 

Featured Speaker: Isabel Spencer, Fulcrum Engineering Ltd.,

Santiago, Chile (8:45-9:15 am)

Title: Using AHP in the Real World  Abstract

 

Plenary Speaker: Dr. Diederik J.D. Wijnmalen (9:15-9:45 am)
Senior Advisor/Scientist, TNO P.O. Box 96864, NL-2509 JG  The Hague
The Netherlands
Title: Improved AHP/ANP BOCR Analysis  Paper

 

Plenary Speaker:  Dr. William Wedley (9:45-10:15 am)

Faculty of Business Administration, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada

Title: Chained Matrices and ANP Solutions: A Comparison  Abstract

 

 

Break: 10:15-10:30    REFRESHMENTS and SNACKS in Garden Room

 

Parallel Sessions: 10:30noon Saturday

 

Keoni Auditorium

 

Socio-Economic Decision Making

 

 

Session Chair: Asma Bahurmoz

Koi Room

 

Economics and Planning III: Enterprise Architectures and Strategic Decision Making

 

Session Chair: Tom Feglar

 

Asia Room

 

AHP Case Studies

 

 

Session Chair: Yuji Sato

 

 

Selecting Conference Site with ANP

Paper

 

Enrique Mu

University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, USA

enmu@katz.pitt.edu

 

 

Enterprise Resource Planning and Selection

Paper

 

Oyku Alanbay

Istanbul Bilgi University

Beyoglu, Turkey

oykua@bilgi.edu.tr

 

 

Optimal Air Conditioning Schedule with AHP

Paper

 

Seiji Usui (with F. Miyasaka,  T. Kanao,  S. Shibamoto, E. Kinoshita)

Yamatake Building Systems Co., Ltd.

Tokyo 108-0023 JAPAN

usui-seiji@jp.yamatake.com

 

 

Integrated Forecasting for Hotels

Paper

 

Sedat Yüksel

Gazi University,

Commerce and Tourism Education Faculty,

Gölbaşı, Ankara, 06830, Turkey

seyuksel@gazi.edu.tr

 

 

 

 

AHP for Strategic Technology Roadmapping

Paper

 

Nathasit Gerdsri

(with Dundar F. Kocaoglu)

Department of Eng. and Technology Management

Portland State University, Portland, nathasitg@etm.pdx.edu

 

 

Facility Location with AHP

Paper

 

Jesuk Ko

Dept. of Industrial & Information

Gwangju University

Korea

jko@gwangju.ac.kr

 

Multi-Agent Decision Support:

Condominium Garbage Disposal

Paper

 

Shinichi Fujita (with Hiroyuki Tamura)

Environmental Pollution Control

Osaka,  Japan

fujita-s@tcn.zaq.ne.jp

 

 

AHP & Compatibility Metrics: Software Process Assessments

Paper

 

Min-Suk Yoon (with Ho-Won Jung)

Yosu National University

Jeonnam, Korea

msyoon@yosu.ac.kr

 

Soft Drink Industry in Turkey

Paper

 

Y. Ilker Topcu (with Sebnem Burnaz)

Istanbul Technical University, Management Faculty

Istanbul, Turkey

ilker.topcu@itu.edu.tr

 

Layout Configuration for Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems with AHP

Paper

 

M Reza Abdi

Bradford University,U.K.

r.abdi@bradford.ac.uk

 

 

Production unit efficiency with AHP

Paper

 

Josef Jablonsky

University of Economics, Prague

W. Churchill Sq. 4

13067 Praha 3

Czech Republic

jablon@vse.cz

 

Restructuring Vocational Education in Turkey

Paper

 

Y. Ilker Topcu

(with Nilgun Turan)

Istanbul Technical University, Management Faculty

Istanbul, Turkey

ilker.topcu@itu.edu.tr

 

Analytic Network Process: A Survey of Urban and Regional Planning Applications

Abstract

 

Reza Banai

University of Memphis

Memphis, Tennessee

USA

rbanai@memphis.edu

 

 

Network Economic Analysis with ANP/DNP

Paper

 

Petr Fiala

University of Economics, Prague

Czech Republic

pfiala@vse.cz

 

 

 

 

 

Lunch: 12-1 pm in Garden Room

 

1-2:00 pm Rest

 

2:00 pm: Depart for Maritime Museum and Aloha Tower

 

2:00-3:30 pm: Tour of Honolulu on Bus

 

3:30 - 5 pm: Tour of Maritime Museum and Aloha Tower

 

5 - 8 pm: Gala Dinner (no alcohol) and entertainment

 

Sunday July 10, 2005:

 

8:00-8:30  Breakfast in Garden Room

 

8:30-11 Keoni Auditorium

 

Panel Discussion with Six Panel Members and a Moderator

 

Panel Members: Thomas Feglar, Claudio Garuti, Diederik Wijnmalen, Thomas L. Saaty, Luis Vargas, William Wedley, (Jason Levy)

  • Order versus metric minimization in deriving priorities
  • Fuzzy sets and AHP
  • BOCR applications and predictions
  • Group decisions

 

Additional helpers:

Hua-Kai Chiou  hkchiou@rs590.ndmc.edu.tw
Yuh-Wen Chen   profchen@mail.dyu.edu.tw
Gwo-Hshiung Tzeng   ghtzeng@cc.nctu.edu.tw

 

CONCLUSION

 

ON TO ANP/IFORS