This chapter provides an overview of Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), which is a systematic procedure for representing the elements of any problem hierarchically. It organizes the basic rationality by breaking down a problem into its smaller constituent parts and then guides decision makers through a series of pair-wise comparison judgments to express the relative strength or intensity of impact of the elements in the hierarchy. These judgments are then translated to numbers. The AHP includes procedures and principles used to synthesize the many judgments to derive priorities among criteria and subsequently for alternative solutions. It is useful to note that the numbers thus obtained are ratio scale estimates and correspond to so-called hard numbers. Problem solving is a process of setting priorities in steps. One step decides on the most important elements of a problem, another on how best to repair, replace, test, and evaluate the elements, and another on how to implement the solution and measure performance.

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How to make a decision: The analytic hierarchy process

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Selecting a Synthesis Mode in the Analytic Hierarchy Process

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Political Candidacy and the Presidential Election

January 1, 2002 brought the European Union into life when 300 million EU inhabitants in Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Greece, Spain, Holland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Germany, Portugal and Italy received a new currency—the Euro. On May 1st 2004, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Malta, Poland, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia and Hungary joined the European Union, and on January 1, 2007 Bulgaria and Romania committed themselves to enter the monetary union as soon as possible, after they fulfill convergence criteria established by the Maastricht Treaty of February 7, 1992 by which all EU member countries shall, as the end result, enter the economic and currency union. Entering countries had or have to accept the Treaty without any conditions. Only Great Britain and Denmark had not entered the euro zone, but they have an “opt-out” clause by which they can, but do not have to, enter, whereas Sweden did not manage to get social acceptance on giving up their “crown” and accepting the euro in the 2003 referendum, without defining the date of its entry into the currency union. Bulgaria and Romania have still to convert to the euro currency despite entering the European Union January 1, 2007.

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