Date: February 4th 2009

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

The biennial meeting of the International Symposium on the Analytic Hierarchy Process and Analytic Network Process (ISAHP 2009) for decision making will take place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, from July 29 to August 1, 2009. A free pre-meeting workshop on the ANP will be given on July 28.

Please email your abstract of 250 words or less as an attachment to a message addressed to abstracts@isahp.org by March 15. Papers are due by June 5. To submit your paper email it as an attachment to a message addressed to papers@isahp.org.

Please format abstracts and papers according to our Style Guide. You can download it in either pdf or Microsoft Word format by clicking here. The abstract should be in the same format as the paper with a title and authors' names, affiliations and email addresses. If you have already submitted your abstract you do not need to re-submit it even if the format was not what we are now requesting.Online registration is now open. Register by April 15 to pay the reduced fee. If you want to stay in the dorm rooms, which are excellent facilities and across the street from where the meeting will take place, the earlier you register the more likely there are to be rooms still available.

We are proud to announce that for the first time the Proceeding CDs from the ISAHP meetings in Bern 2001, Bali 2003, Hawaii 2005 and Chile 2007 meetings are available online under the Proceedings tab. These contain a rich treasure trove of papers on AHP/ANP.

We are also very proud to tell you that the Pittsburgh Steelers football team won the Super Bowl last Sunday, February 1, in a dramatic historic last minute play. So you will be visiting the City of Champions.

We are very much looking forward to this meeting and to your participation.

With regards,

Rozann Saaty
Local Organizing Committee for ISAHP2009
Email: rozann@creativedecisions.net