Books
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Analytical Planning: The Organization of SystemsAuthor(s): Thomas Saaty, Kevin P. KearnsThe Analytic Hierarchy Process is presented as a conceptual framework for linking systems and planning. Part I, Systems and Complexity, covers the rationale of systems theory and shows how a system\'s purpose, functions, flows and structure are represented in an AHP model. Part II, Strategic ... Read More |
Applications and Theory of Analytic Hierarchy ProcessAuthor(s): Fabio De Felice, Thomas Saaty, Antonella PetrilloThe purpose of this book is to provide an introduction to the theory and applications in the field of decision making, especially focused on Analytic Hierarchy Process, a structured technique for organizing and analyzing complex decisions, based on mathematics and psychology. It was developed by ... Read More |
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Compact City: the next urban evolution in response to climate changeAuthor(s): Thomas SaatyWe 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 ... Read More |
Conflict ResolutionAuthor(s): Thomas Saaty, Joyce M. AlexanderThis book demonstrates a new way to analyze and negotiate conflict resolution. It provides a framework in which conflicting parties can participate partly, fully, or not at all. Unlike the traditional quantitative approach, this new approach deals with tangible and intangible factors including po... Read More |
Creative Thinking, Problem Solving & Decision MakingAuthor(s): Thomas SaatyIn this new printing beautiful original paintings of the creative process have been added. The rest of the book has the original rich collection of ideas, incorporating research by a growing body of researchers and practitioners, profiles of creative people, projects and products, theory, philoso... Read More |
Creative Thinking, Problem Solving and Decision Making (Arabic)Author(s): Thomas Saatyللإبداع دور هام في تطوير الحياة وتحسين نوعيتها، فمن خلال التفكير الإبداعي يساهم كل منا في رفاهية الناس مجتمعين. يفتح هذا الكتاب السهل الممتنع مجالات لمواضيع قد تكون غير مألوفة لدي الكثير من القراء ويتيح الفرصة لهم لاكتشاف قوي الإبداع الكامنة فيهم. يتضمن هذا الكتاب مجموعة ثرية من الأفكار وخلاصة أب... Read More |
Creative Thinking, Problem Solving and Decision Making (Farsi)Author(s): Thomas SaatyThe book includes seven chapters and one attachment. First press of the book has been published in 1386 and second press is being published spring 1392.Creative thinking, problem solving and decision making is a rich collection of creative ideas, and experiences with examples at the end of each c... Read More |
Creative Thinking, Problem Solving and Decision Making (Italian)Author(s): Thomas SaatyThis book is the Italian translation of the book Creative Thinking Pensiero creativo, problem solving e decision making rappresentano tre elementi essenziali in qualsiasi processo decisionale. Questo libro nasce dalle lezioni sulla creatività tenute dal professore Thomas L. Saaty, ideatore dell... Read More |
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Decision Making for LeadersAuthor(s): Thomas SaatyThis is a book of case studies in multicriteria decision-making using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). The basics of the theory are described in a clear, non-technical manner with many examples. Methods are given for calculating best options using simple arithmetic. Suitable for business lea... Read More |
Decision Making for Leaders (Arabic)Author(s): Thomas SaatyThis translated book is a book of case studies in multicriteria decision-making using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). The basics of the theory are described in a clear, non-technical manner with many examples. Methods are given for calculating best options using simple arithmetic. Suitable ... Read More |
Decision Making with Dependence and FeedbackAuthor(s): Thomas SaatyThis book shows how to make decisions when alternatives depend on criteria, but also the criteria depend on the alternatives. It shows how to cope with dependence between different groups of people, goals and criteria. The Analytic Network Process is particularly useful to project the future of a... Read More |
Decision Making with Dependence and Feedback (Russian)Author(s): Thomas SaatyThe Russian translation of the book by Thomas L. Saaty Decision Making with Dependence and Feedback. The Analytic Hierarchy Process". The book describes fundamentals of Analytic Hierarchy Process and Analytic Network Process Read More |
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Group Decision MakingAuthor(s): Thomas Saaty, Kirti PeniwatiWhen a group makes a decision, that decision carries a lot more weight than when just one person does it. Think of the founding fathers of the American constitution and how much power and influence their ideas have had in the entire world for more than two hundred years. Also think of gravity, a ... Read More |
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Il Decision Making e I Sistemi Decisionali Multicriterio Le Metodologie AHP e ANP (Italian)Author(s): Thomas SaatyThe rapidly increasing complexity of the world makes all its problems very interdependent so that what happens in one place can cause major ripples all over the world. Decision making is fundamental to furthering our goal of survival and ensuring the quality of our life.To be a person is to be a ... Read More |
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Mathematical Principles of Decision MakingAuthor(s): Thomas SaatyIn this book Thomas Saaty summarizes his Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) theory developed over the past 40 years for measuring intangible factors through paired comparisons using judgments from which priorities are derived that give the relative dominance of these factors. The important concepts... Read More |
Measuring in Weighted EnvironmentsAuthor(s): Claudio GarutiThe group's decision is usually understood to be the reduction of different individual preferences among objects in a given set to a single collective preference or group preference. In recent years, the researchers have tended to concentrate on the analysis of decisions that are ""re... Read More |
Multi-Criteria Methods and Techniques Applied to Supply Chain ManagementAuthor(s): Valerio SalomonThis book intends to be a complimentary reference for graduate and undergraduate courses of Business and Engineering. Readers not familiar with Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) and supply chain management (SCM) may have a first glance, reading isolate chapters. Moreover, the sequential order... Read More |
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Non Linear Mathematics Vol. IAuthor(s): Thomas Saaty, Joseph BramWe are surrounded and deeply involved, in the natural world, with non- linear events which are not necessarily mathematical, the authors write. For example . . . the nonlinear problem of pedalling a bicycle up and down a hillside. On a grand scale . . . the struggle for existence between two spec... Read More |
Non Linear Mathematics Vol. IIAuthor(s): Thomas SaatyNonlinear equations have existed for hundreds of years; their systematic study, however, is a relatively recent phenomenon. This volume, together with its companion', Nonlinear Matliematics Vol. I, provides exceptionally comprehensive coverage of this recently formed area of study. It encomp... Read More |
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Optimization in IntegersAuthor(s): Thomas Saaty"This text, the first of its kind, surveys the entire field of optimization in integers. It is designed for students of mathematics, engineering, science, social science, and operations research. It will stimulate and excite the reader's interest in the elementary methods and ideas. of di... Read More |
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Practical Decision MakingAuthor(s): Enrique Mu, Milagros Pereyra-RojasThis book offers a simple introduction to the fundamentals and applications of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) without a pre-requisite for a sophisticated mathematical background. It provides a quick and intuitive understanding of the methodology using spreadsheet examples and explains in a ... Read More |
Prediction, Projection and ForecastingAuthor(s): Thomas SaatyThe Analytic Hierarchy Process applied to prediction and forecasting with case studies in games, sports, and applications involving uncertainty and risk. 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 va... Read More |
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The Brain: Unraveling the Mystery of How it Works, The Neural Network ProcessAuthor(s): Thomas SaatyThis work confirms what many contemporary thinkers have claimed: that all human actions, sensations, thoughts and even emotions are derived from the synthesis of neural firings in the brain. This book offers the mathematics to describe how this happens and the nature of their interaction, feedbac... Read More |
The Encyclicon, Volume 1Author(s): Thomas Saaty, Mujgan Sagir ÖzdemirThe Encyclicon: a Dictionary of Applications of Decision Making with Dependence and Feedback based on the Analytic Network Process Volume 1 has a very comprehensive chapter that describes the Analytic Network Process and a step by step description on how to design and implement a Benefits - Oppo... Read More |
The Encyclicon, Volume 2Author(s): Thomas Saaty, Brady CilloThe Encyclicon is a dictionary of examples of the Analytic Network Process (ANP) for decision making with dependence and feedback. This is the second volume of The Encyclicon, an encyclopedia of ANP examples. This volume illustrates over 80 real-world examples of decisions made using the ANP. The... Read More |
The Encyclicon, Volume 3Author(s): Thomas Saaty, Luis VargasVolume 3 of The Encyclicon extends the number of real-world Analytic Network Process (ANP) decisions that have been catalogued. It includes complex decisions that factor in Benefits, Opportunities, Costs and Risks, predictions and market share estimations, all of which may involve intangible fact... Read More |
The Encyclicon, Volume 4Author(s): Thomas Saaty, Madjid TavanaVolume 4 has a very large number of more recent case studies and takes a closer look to the building process of the Benefits - Opportunities-Costs and Risks models using AHP top level networks, rating of the B,O, C, R with the help of the strategic criteria and ANP bottom level networks. Read More |
The HierarchonAuthor(s): Thomas Saaty, Ernest FormanThis work is a beginning in the classification of ideas related to planning, conflict resolution and decision making. There are more than 400 AHP models classified into Business/Corporate Policy and Corporate Strategy, Government/Public Policy and Public Strategy, Health Care, Military Strategy, ... Read More |
The Hierarchon Vol. 2Author(s): Thomas Saaty, Rafikul IslamResearchers 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... Read More |
The Logic of PrioritiesAuthor(s): Thomas Saaty, Luis VargasThis book is divided into five parts: prioritization, applications of prioritization, planning, resource allocation and prediction. There are applications of the Analytic Hierarchy Process in these five areas in business, energy, health and transportation. The planning examples include forward an... Read More |
The Neural Network Process (NNP): Generalization of the AHP and ANP to the Continuous Case of Neural FiringAuthor(s): Thomas SaatyThis book generalizes the discrete mathematics of decision making to the continuous mathematics required to model the firing and synthesis of neurons in the brain and nervous system. Making comparisons as we do in decision making is intrinsic in all of our biology and behavior, and at the atomist... Read More |
Theory and Applications of the Analytic Network ProcessAuthor(s): Thomas SaatyThe Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and its generalization to dependence and feedback, the Analytic Network Process (ANP), are methods of relative measurement of tangibles and intangibles. Being able to derive such measurements is essential for making good decisions. This book is based on the An... Read More |
Theory and Applications of the ANP (Farsi)Author(s): Thomas SaatyThe book includes eight chapters and one attachment. Chapter one presents decision making, Analytic Hierarchy Process and Network Process (AHP/ANP), second, third and fourth chapters describe fundamentals of the Analytic Network Process and its applications with benefits, opportunities, costs an... Read More |
Toma De Decisiones Para Lideres (Spanish)Author(s): Thomas SaatyThis book is the 2nd Spanish edition of the well known "Decision Making for Leaders". It 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... Read More |
Transportation DecisionsAuthor(s): Simin Jalali R. Rabbani , Soheil Rahnemay RabbaniThe only book dedicated to transportation decisions using the AHP. It is in two parts: Part 1 includes the theoretical background of the Analytic Hierarchy Process and an examination of the dynamic evolution of multicriteria decision processes; Part 2 contains practical applications of the AHP to... Read More |