Computer Assisted Decision Support Systems

The analytic hierarchy process (AHP) provides a logical, organized means to handle all important qualitative as well as quantitative factors in the decisionmaking process. The AHP and similar support systems require the use of a computer and appropriate software. AHP uses some fancy mathematical footwork, the eigenvalue approach, to enable the valid use of quantitative judgments in real number operations (by converting all measurements to ratios). The theory makes interesting reading, even to some nonmathematicians. But it is not necessary to understand the theoretical derivation of AHP in order to use it.

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