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The analytical hierarchy process (AHP) is a decision-making framework that breaks down complex decisions into a hierarchical structure. It allows decision-makers to determine trade-offs between objectives by pairwise comparisons. The AHP structures a decision problem by decomposing it, making comparative judgments between elements, and synthesizing priorities. It incorporates all relevant criteria and allows subjective judgments, which is important when information is limited. An example illustrates how AHP works by prioritizing three projects based on efficiency, sustainability, strategic effects, and feasibility criteria.

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56:134 Process Engineering

The analytical hierarchy process (AHP) is a decision-making framework that breaks down complex decisions into a hierarchical structure. It allows decision-makers to determine trade-offs between objectives by pairwise comparisons. The AHP structures a decision problem by decomposing it, making comparative judgments between elements, and synthesizing priorities. It incorporates all relevant criteria and allows subjective judgments, which is important when information is limited. An example illustrates how AHP works by prioritizing three projects based on efficiency, sustainability, strategic effects, and feasibility criteria.

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Introduction

The analytical hierarchy process (AHP) is a comprehensive, logical and structured framework Allows to improve understanding of complex decisions by decomposing the problem

Analytical Hierarchy Process


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How it Works!
It incorporates all relevant decision criteria. Their pair-wise comparison allows the pairdecision maker to determine the trade-offs tradeamong objectives

Applications
This procedure recognizes and incorporates the knowledge and expertise of the participants Makes use of their subjective judgments, which is a particularly important feature for decisions to be made on a poor information base

The AHP is based on three principles:


Decomposition of the decision problem Comparative judgment of the elements Synthesis of the priorities

Step 1
Structure the decision problem in a hierarchy

Step 2
Comparison of the alternatives based on the criteria

Step 3
Synthesize the comparisons to get the priorities of the alternatives with respect to each criterion and the weights of each criterion with respect to the goal Local priorities are then multiplied by the weights of the respective criterion The results are summed up to produce the overall priority of each alternative
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An illustrative example (from www.isnar.cgiar.org) www.isnar.cgiar.org)


A simplified example may clarify the AHP procedure. Assume that we have three projects to prioritize: Genetic markers to assist plant breeding and selection of insect-resistant varieties; insect Micropropagation (tissue culture) for pathogen elimination and mass propagation; Post-harvest management (low-cost storage technologies) for Post(lowquality maintenance.

Criteria
Efficiency Sustainability Strategic effects (indirect research effects) Feasibility

Hierarchical Structure

Pairwise comparison of the criteria with respect to the goal

Pairwise comparison of projects with respect to the efficiency criterion

Pairwise comparison
Additional tables for
Sustainability Strategic effects, and Feasibility

Priorities, weights, and the final ranking of the projects

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