CCCA'12

Special Session on
ANP / AHP in Manufacturing and Services Systems

Proposed by
Fouzia Ounnar (Aix Marseille University – LSIS - France), Alessio Ishizaka (University of Portsmouth - Strategy and Business Systems)

Short presentation
The ANP/ AHP methods are more and more widespread in research fields and in industrials applications.
The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), developed by T. L. Saaty in 1970, can decompose a complex decision problem into several levels of analysis when evaluating solutions is obtained by pairwise comparisons. The AHP also allows taking into account simultaneously quantitative and qualitative criteria. In addition, AHP offers the possibility to monitor the consistency of the judgments of a decision-maker and thus validate their relevance.
The Analytic Network Process (ANP) is a generalization of the AHP. While the AHP represents a structure with a unidirectional hierarchical relationship, the ANP reflects more complex correlations and dependencies between the decision levels and attributes (the elements of each level).
The AHP/ANP methods have demonstrated robustness across a range of application domains in many countries. This special session aims at highlighting the works of researchers and industrialists in modelling, implementing, and applying the AHP/ANP method as a tool for multicriteria decision aid method in the field of manufacturing & services systems.

Important Dates
Deadline for submission of papers: September 15, 2012
Notification of acceptance: October 15, 2012
Submission of final paper: November 7, 2012
Deadline for author registration: November 7, 2012

For submission, please refer to http://www.hypersciences.org/ccca12

Contact: fouzia.ounnar@lsis.org ; Alessio.Ishizaka@port.ac.uk;