Ebook: Decision Making with the Analytic Network Process: Economic, Political, Social and Technological Applications with Benefits, Opportunities, Costs and Risks
- Genre: Computers // Information Systems
- Tags: Operation Research/Decision Theory, Operations Research Management Science, Econometrics
- Series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science 195
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: Springer US
- Edition: 2
- Language: English
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The Analytic Network Process (ANP), developed by Thomas Saaty in his work on multicriteria decision making, applies network structures with dependence and feedback to complex decision making. This new edition of Decision Making with the Analytic Network Process is a selection of the latest applications of ANP to economic, social and political decisions, and also to technological design. The ANP is a methodological tool that is helpful to organize knowledge and thinking, elicit judgments registered in both in memory and in feelings, quantify the judgments and derive priorities from them, and finally synthesize these diverse priorities into a single mathematically and logically justifiable overall outcome. In the process of deriving this outcome, the ANP also allows for the representation and synthesis of diverse opinions in the midst of discussion and debate.
The book focuses on the application of the ANP in three different areas: economics, the social sciences and the linking of measurement with human values. Economists can use the ANP for an alternate approach for dealing with economic problems than the usual mathematical models on which economics bases its quantitative thinking. For psychologists, sociologists and political scientists, the ANP offers the methodology they have sought for some time to quantify and derive measurements for intangibles. Finally the book applies the ANP to provide people in the physical and engineering sciences with a quantitative method to link hard measurement to human values. In such a process, one is able to interpret the true meaning of measurements made on a uniform scale using a unit.
The Analytic Network Process (ANP), developed by Thomas Saaty in his work on multicriteria decision making, applies network structures with dependence and feedback to complex decision making. This new edition of Decision Making with the Analytic Network Process is a selection of the latest applications of ANP to economic, social and political decisions, and also to technological design. The ANP is a methodological tool that is helpful to organize knowledge and thinking, elicit judgments registered in both in memory and in feelings, quantify the judgments and derive priorities from them, and finally synthesize these diverse priorities into a single mathematically and logically justifiable overall outcome. In the process of deriving this outcome, the ANP also allows for the representation and synthesis of diverse opinions in the midst of discussion and debate.
The book focuses on the application of the ANP in three different areas: economics, the social sciences and the linking of measurement with human values. Economists can use the ANP for an alternate approach for dealing with economic problems than the usual mathematical models on which economics bases its quantitative thinking. For psychologists, sociologists and political scientists, the ANP offers the methodology they have sought for some time to quantify and derive measurements for intangibles. Finally the book applies the ANP to provide people in the physical and engineering sciences with a quantitative method to link hard measurement to human values. In such a process, one is able to interpret the true meaning of measurements made on a uniform scale using a unit.
The Analytic Network Process (ANP), developed by Thomas Saaty in his work on multicriteria decision making, applies network structures with dependence and feedback to complex decision making. This new edition of Decision Making with the Analytic Network Process is a selection of the latest applications of ANP to economic, social and political decisions, and also to technological design. The ANP is a methodological tool that is helpful to organize knowledge and thinking, elicit judgments registered in both in memory and in feelings, quantify the judgments and derive priorities from them, and finally synthesize these diverse priorities into a single mathematically and logically justifiable overall outcome. In the process of deriving this outcome, the ANP also allows for the representation and synthesis of diverse opinions in the midst of discussion and debate.
The book focuses on the application of the ANP in three different areas: economics, the social sciences and the linking of measurement with human values. Economists can use the ANP for an alternate approach for dealing with economic problems than the usual mathematical models on which economics bases its quantitative thinking. For psychologists, sociologists and political scientists, the ANP offers the methodology they have sought for some time to quantify and derive measurements for intangibles. Finally the book applies the ANP to provide people in the physical and engineering sciences with a quantitative method to link hard measurement to human values. In such a process, one is able to interpret the true meaning of measurements made on a uniform scale using a unit.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
The Analytic Network Process....Pages 1-40
Forecasting the Resurgence of the U. S. Economy in 2001: An Expert Judgment Approach....Pages 41-73
An Analytic Network Process Model for Financial-Crisis Forecasting ....Pages 75-92
Outsourcing a Firm’s Application Development Group....Pages 93-117
ANWR: Artic National Wildlife Refuge an ANP Validation Example....Pages 119-131
The Ford Explorer Case....Pages 133-157
Synthesis of Complex Criteria Decision Making: A Case Towards a Consensus Agreement for a Middle East Conflict Resolution ....Pages 159-184
U. S. Energy Security....Pages 185-211
Stabilizing Social Security for the Long-Term....Pages 213-233
When Shall Poland Enter the Euro Zone?....Pages 235-253
The Conflict Between China and Taiwan....Pages 255-270
U. S. Response to North Korean Nuclear Threat....Pages 271-294
Criteria for Evaluating Group Decision-Making Methods....Pages 295-318
An Innovative Orders-of-Magnitude Approach to AHP-Based Multicriteria Decision Making: Prioritizing Divergent Intangible Humane Acts ....Pages 319-343
Sensitivity Analysis in the Analytic Hierarchy Process....Pages 345-360
Back Matter....Pages 361-363
The Analytic Network Process (ANP), developed by Thomas Saaty in his work on multicriteria decision making, applies network structures with dependence and feedback to complex decision making. This new edition of Decision Making with the Analytic Network Process is a selection of the latest applications of ANP to economic, social and political decisions, and also to technological design. The ANP is a methodological tool that is helpful to organize knowledge and thinking, elicit judgments registered in both in memory and in feelings, quantify the judgments and derive priorities from them, and finally synthesize these diverse priorities into a single mathematically and logically justifiable overall outcome. In the process of deriving this outcome, the ANP also allows for the representation and synthesis of diverse opinions in the midst of discussion and debate.
The book focuses on the application of the ANP in three different areas: economics, the social sciences and the linking of measurement with human values. Economists can use the ANP for an alternate approach for dealing with economic problems than the usual mathematical models on which economics bases its quantitative thinking. For psychologists, sociologists and political scientists, the ANP offers the methodology they have sought for some time to quantify and derive measurements for intangibles. Finally the book applies the ANP to provide people in the physical and engineering sciences with a quantitative method to link hard measurement to human values. In such a process, one is able to interpret the true meaning of measurements made on a uniform scale using a unit.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
The Analytic Network Process....Pages 1-40
Forecasting the Resurgence of the U. S. Economy in 2001: An Expert Judgment Approach....Pages 41-73
An Analytic Network Process Model for Financial-Crisis Forecasting ....Pages 75-92
Outsourcing a Firm’s Application Development Group....Pages 93-117
ANWR: Artic National Wildlife Refuge an ANP Validation Example....Pages 119-131
The Ford Explorer Case....Pages 133-157
Synthesis of Complex Criteria Decision Making: A Case Towards a Consensus Agreement for a Middle East Conflict Resolution ....Pages 159-184
U. S. Energy Security....Pages 185-211
Stabilizing Social Security for the Long-Term....Pages 213-233
When Shall Poland Enter the Euro Zone?....Pages 235-253
The Conflict Between China and Taiwan....Pages 255-270
U. S. Response to North Korean Nuclear Threat....Pages 271-294
Criteria for Evaluating Group Decision-Making Methods....Pages 295-318
An Innovative Orders-of-Magnitude Approach to AHP-Based Multicriteria Decision Making: Prioritizing Divergent Intangible Humane Acts ....Pages 319-343
Sensitivity Analysis in the Analytic Hierarchy Process....Pages 345-360
Back Matter....Pages 361-363
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