Date: August 11th 2009

To the members of the ISAHP community

We have completed a very successful tenth ISAHP conference on the Analytic Hierarchy Process, July 28-Aug 1, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. There were 85 papers, 110 participants and 28 countries represented. The link to the online Proceedings is http://www.isahp.org/2009Proceedings/index.htm.

The pictures from the gala dinner by the official photographer, are posted at http://www.flickr.com/photos/pittbusiness/sets/72157621819432615/

Two sets of additional pictures by Roman Karpovich are also online at http://picasaweb.google.com/analgetic/ISAHP2009Day1 and http://picasaweb.google.com/analgetic/ISAHP2009Day2#

This will possibly be viewed in the future as a historic meeting of the ISAHP society. The keynote addresses ranged from the talk given by Thomas Saaty, the creator of the AHP, where he laid out his vision for the future of the AHP to the talk by Daniel Saaty, our son, about how the AHP is helping the Green Bay Packers football team do a better job of picking players in the seasonal draft. At the Gala dinner river boat cruise awards were given to the 11 authors of the AHP that attended the meeting. These are people who have written books on the AHP in either their own languages or in English. Recognition was given to 15 new PHD's with thesis topics in AHP. The programmer of the SuperDecisions software, William Adams, was present. Five chairpersons of earlier ISAHP meetings were present.

Fabio De Felice and his Italian team have proposed to host the next ISAHP conference in 2011in Naples. This will be a terrific location and they are wonderful hosts as we can tell you from having attended a workshop organized by Fabio in Gaeta, Italy, in 2007.

Thanks to all who attended.

Rozann Saaty