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Saaty, Thomas Lorie was born on July 18, 1926 in Mosul, Iraq. Son of David Saaty and Dola Hayali.
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This book is a dictionary of over 400 decision problems in government and the private sector, structured as hierarchical decision models. The Hierarchon serves as a stimulus, a rich source of ideas to help in structuring decision problems as hierarchies.
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This book is about how to make decisions using the Analytic Hierarchy Process. The basics of the theory are described in a clear, non-technical manner with many examples. It is suitable for business leaders and also is probably the best book for introducing the AHP to students at the college and graduate level. In this fifth printing of the book the reader will find a new appendix containing real-life applications that validate the use of the fundamental scale of the AHP.
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Vol. III and IV of the AHP Series, 2 books combined in one volume The two books below have been combined in one volume, ISBN 1-888603-07-0, and published by RWS Publications, 1991. Softcover. The Logic of Priorities, Vol. III, AHP Series, Thomas L. Saaty and Luis G. Vargas, 299 pp. The hardcover edition of this book was published in 1982 by Kluwer-Nijhoff under ISBN 0-89838-071-5. This book is an introduction to prioritization using the Analytic Hiearchy Process (AHP) with applications in business, energy, health and transportation. It also includes applications in technology transfer and resource allocation. It covers forward and backward planning, risk, uncertainty in portfolio selection, and conflict resolution using the AHP. Analytic Planning: The Organization of Systems, Vol. IV, AHP Series, Thomas L. Saaty & Kevin P. Kearns, 208 pp. The hardcover edition of this book was published in 1985 by Pergamon Press under ISBN 0-08-032599-8. This book presents a methodological approach to planning using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). Part I, Systems and Complexity, has chapters on Complexity and Systems and how they relate to the Analytic Hierarchy Process. Part II, Strategic Planning, has chapters on Current Theories of Planning, Strategic Planning, and Benefit-Cost Analysis and Resource Allocation.
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The first graduate-level text devoted to the subject, this classic offers a concise history and overview of methods as well as an excellent exposition of the mathematical foundations underlying classical operations research procedures. It begins with a review of historical, scientific, and mathematical aspects; examples and ideas related to classical methods of forming models introduce discussions of optimization, game theory, applications of probability, and queuing theory. Carefully selected exercises illustrate important and useful ideas. This text is an ideal introduction for students to the basic mathematics of operations research as well as a valuable source of references to early literature on operations research. 1959 edition.
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Nonlinear equations have existed for hundreds of years; their systematic study, however, is a relatively recent phenomenon. This volume, together with its companion, Nonlinear Mathematics (Dover 64233-X), provides exceptionally comprehensive coverage of this recently formed area of study. It encompasses both older and more recent developments in the field of equations, with particular emphasis on nonlinear equations because, as Professor Saaty, maintains, "that is what is needed today." Together the two volumes cover all the major types of classical equations (except partial differential equations, which require a separate volume). This volume includes material on seven types: operator equations, functional equations, difference equations, delay-differential equations, integral equations, integro-differential equations and stochastic differential equations. Special emphasis is placed on linear and nonlinear equations in function spaces and on general methods of solving different types of such equations. Above all, this book is practical. It reviews the variety of existing types of equations and provides methods for their solution. It is meant to help the reader acquire new methods for formulating problems. Its clear organization and copious references make it suitable for graduate students as well as scientists, technologists and mathematicians. "...a welcome contribution to the existing literature..." — Math. Reviews.
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We predict when we say in advance, foretell, or prophesy what is likely to happen in the future. We project when we calculate the numerical value associated with a future event. We forecast, a special kind of prediction, on data of past happenings to generate or cast data for future by relying happenings. Generally, one predicts (yes, no) a war, an earthquake or the outcome of a chess match, projects the value of the GNP or of unemployment, and forecasts the weather and, more scientifically, the economic trends. Prediction, projection, and forecasting must be constrained in time and space: when and where. Often the accuracy of a forecast is of interest along with how sensitive the outcome is to changes in the factors involved. Is there a basis for improving the wisdom we need to make correct and useful predictions? We believe there is, and that it can be cultivated by studying the approach given here along with the various examples. To the best of our knowledge, no other work has approached prediction in the scientific framework of hierarchies. Prediction is the synthesis of past and present in an attempt to foretell the future. In our view, creation is not the ultimate phenomenon of the world. Nature creates forms and so do we. The problem is to surmise the eventual purpose, impact, and use of creation. It is the synthesis or outcome of bringing together the results of creation that we need to predict.
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This book is a comprehensive summary, primarily of the author's own thinking and research, about the Analytic Hierarchy Process and decision making. It includes advanced mathematical theory and diverse applications. Fundamentals of Decision Making has all the latest theoretical developments in the AHP and new theoretical material not published elsewhere. We consider this book to be the replacement for the original book on the subject, The Analytic Hierarchy Process that was published by McGraw Hill Publishers, New York.
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Paperback book. Approximately 5.5 x 8 sized book. A total of 217 pages. 1986, Dover Edition, first published in 1986, is an unbridged corrected republication of the work originally published by the McGraw-Hill International Book Company, NY, 1977, USA. The spine is tight, pages are clean and easy to read. Dover Publications, Inc. , NY. The boards show normal shelf wear. Bottom front board has a crease or fine line and bottom corner is worn or rubbed slightly. There is a tiny, very small, light brown stain about midway at the bottom of the book that is barely noticeable on the page edges, however does not bleed into the pages. A couple of minor finger line small creases on the back board where the previous owner held the book and read it. A good price for this book by Thomas L. Saaty and Paul C. Kainen. The following is taken from the prefix of this book: "We believe that mathematicians get more excitement by doing the entire job of proving the existence of solutions and then constructing them by themselves than they do by relying on the computer as a substantial partner in the undertaking. Still, ambitious experts in artificial intelligence are telling us that it will not be long before computers will be doing all that we do, better and faster." It continues: " We hope this book will continue to evoke interest in the four color problem, in its computer aided solution, and perhaps in finding an alternative way to prove it. By the way, a natural follow up would be a four color algorithm." A very interesting book and affordably priced.
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Models, Methods, Concepts and Applications of the Analytic Hierarchy Process is a volume dedicated to selected applications of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) focused on three themes: economics, the social sciences, and the linking of measurement with human values. (1) The AHP offers economists a substantially different approach to dealing with economic problems through ratio scales. The main mathematical models on which economics has based its quantitative thinking up to now are utility theory, which uses interval scales, and linear programming. We hope that the variety of examples included here can perhaps stimulate researchers in economics to try applying this new approach. (2) The second theme is concerned with the social sciences. The AHP offers psychologists and political scientists the methodology to quantify and derive measurements for intangibles. We hope that the examples included in this book will encourage them to examine the methods of AHP in terms of the problems they seek to solve. (3) The third theme is concerned with providing people in the physical and engineering sciences with a quantitative method to link hard measurement to human values. In such a process one needs to interpret what the measurements mean. A number is useless until someone understands what it means. It can have different meanings in different problems. Ten dollars are plenty to satisfy one's hunger but are useless by themselves in buying a new car. Such measurements are only indicators of the state of a system, but do not relate to the values of the human observers of that system. AHP methods can help resolve the conflicts between hard measurement data and human values.
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We need to control nature by eliminating its capricious threats to our lives. We do it best by not only making our living, working , sports and other leisure structures more accessible in space, but also by minimizing and banishing congestions and the need for long times to commute to work or to access shopping malls, sports and cultural activities. With the threat of global warming and melting of the polar ice cap in the Antarctic, low lying cities throughout the world are threatened with drowning under more than 150 feet of water. What should we be thinking about insulating ourselves from natural threats like hurricanes and tsunamis and earthquakes? Surprisingly enough, the new design will eliminate one of the problems of poverty, the lack of shelter.
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The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is a prominent and powerful tool for making decisions in situations involving multiple objectives. Models, Methods, Concepts and Applications of the Analytic Hierarchy Process, 2nd Edition applies the AHP in order to solve problems focused on the following three themes: economics, the social sciences, and the linking of measurement with human values. For economists, the AHP offers a substantially different approach to dealing with economic problems through ratio scales. Psychologists and political scientists can use the methodology to quantify and derive measurements for intangibles. Meanwhile researchers in the physical and engineering sciences can apply the AHP methods to help resolve the conflicts between hard measurement data and human values. Throughout the book, each of these topics is explored utilizing real life models and examples, relevant to problems in today’s society. This new edition has been updated and includes five new chapters that includes discussions of the following: - The eigenvector and why it is necessary - A summary of ongoing research in the Middle East that brings together Israeli and Palestinian scholars to develop concessions from both parties - A look at the Medicare Crisis and how AHP can be used to understand the problems and help develop ideas to solve them.
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This book presents applications of the Analytic Hierarchy Process developed by Thomas L. Saaty to deal with unstructured decision problems, together with case histories developed by him and in collaboration with others in areas of current societal concern. Its purpose is to provide the reader with examples of how to deal with unstructured problems, particularly ones involving socio economic and political issues with qualitative and intangible factors. These examples show how to use judgment and experience to analyze a com plex decision problem by combining its qualitative and quantitative aspects in a single framework and generating a set of priorities for alternative courses of action. The process has inherent flexibilities in structuring a problem and in taking diverse judgments from people, whether singly, in a group working together, or by questionnaire. Decisionmakers will profit from this approach. It makes accessible to them a framework for understanding the complexity of the system they are in as it impinges on the surrounding environment. To deal with complexity, we must first understand it. Systems thinking is necessary if all the important factors are to be considered. Complex systems problems can challenge and tax our logical capability to fully understand their causes and the consequences of any action we may take to solve them. Neverthe less, in time their effects on us tend to become better known than their causes.
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Researchers have been continually developing ways and means to improve quality in decision making. The success of a methodology is judged by its acceptability by the decision makers. In this context, it is beyond any argument that AHP has been massively successful. Readers of this volume will see, once again, that AHP has been applied in widely diverse areas. However, there are many more applications of AHP in other areas that are not reported here. We also don’t claim that the set of applications of AHP in the reported areas is exhaustive; it is far from complete. In fact, it will not be possible to capture all the real-world applications of AHP even by publishing many volumes of this kind. We hope that the readers will find the present compilation useful.
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How does one begin to tackle a complex decision problem involving many qualitative and intangible factors? This book suggests a method, the Analytic Hierarchy Process, which integrates information from a variety of arenas – scientific, social, political and economic – any or all of which may have a bearing on the issue under consideration. Included in the book are many case histories dealing in problems of priority setting, conflict resolution, resource allocation, prediction and portfolio selection. The step-by-step process described can reduce even the most intricate systems problems to a clear, manageable form that is accessible even to laypersons who lack sophisticated technical backgrounds. This book will be of special interest to scholars and professionals in the areas of operations research, management science, and social and behavioral science , as well as to general students and practitioners who would like a new approach to dealing with complex decisions.
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Saaty, Thomas Lorie was born on July 18, 1926 in Mosul, Iraq. Son of David Saaty and Dola Hayali.
Bachelor, Columbia Union College, 1948; Master of Science, Catholic U. American, 1949; postdoctoral, U. Paris, 1952-1953; Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1953; Master of Arts, University of Pennsylvania, 1973.
Scientific analyst operations evaluation group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1954-1957; scientific analyst, Navy Management Office, 1957-1958; scientific liaison officer, United States Embassy, London, 1958-1959; director advanced planning, Office Naval Research, Washington, 1959-1961; head mathematics branch, Office of Naval Research, Washington, 1961-1963; scientific analyst arms control and disarmament, unites states department State, Washington, 1963-1969; executive director, Conference Board of Mathematics Sciences, Washington, 1965-1967; professor, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1969-1979; Chair University professor, U. Pittsburgh, since 1979. Consultant goverments, France, Egypt, Sudan, Kuwait, Tanzania, China, Indonesia, since 1958. Consultant business, Westinghouse, Conoco, North America Rockwell, Xerox, Kodak, Martin Marietta, International Business Machines Corporation.
(How does one begin to tackle a complex decision problem i...)
(Models, Methods, Concepts and Applications of the Analyti...)
( The first graduate-level text devoted to the subject, t...)
(This book is a comprehensive summary, primarily of the au...)
(This book is a dictionary of over 400 decision problems i...)
( The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is a prominent and...)
(This book is a collection of selected applications of the...)
(Nonlinear equations have existed for hundreds of years; t...)
(Researchers have been continually developing ways and mea...)
(We predict when we say in advance, foretell, or prophesy ...)
(This book presents applications of the Analytic Hierarchy...)
(This book is about how to make decisions using the Analyt...)
(We need to control nature by eliminating its capricious t...)
(The analytic hierarchy process)
(Book by Saaty, Thomas L., Kearns, Kevin P., Vargas, Luis G.)
(Book by Saaty, Thomas L.)
(Paperback book. Approximately 5.5 x 8 sized book. A total...)
(Hard cover.)
(Vol. III and IV of the AHP Series, 2 books combined in on...)
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member Mathematics Association American (Lester R. Ford award 1973), American Mathematics Society, Operations Research Society American, International Institute for Strategic Studies, World Future Society, International Peace Science Society, Beta Gamma Sigma.
Married Bernadine Lucia Wearner. Children:Linda, Michael, Emily. Married Rozann Waldron.
Children: John, Daniel.