مقاله انگلیسی رایگان در مورد پیشرفته ترین حالت پردازش سلسله مراتبی تحلیلی – الزویر 2018

Because of its great flexibility and wide applicability, integrated analytic hierarchy process (AHP) approaches have been studied extensively for the last 20 years. This paper, as a follow-up study to Ho (2008), reviews the literature on the integrated AHP approaches and applications published between 2007 and 2016 and compares those studies with papers published during the previous decade, i.e., 1997-2006. Based on the 88 journal articles, five questions can be answered: (1) which type of integrated AHP approaches was paid most attention to? (2) Which application areas were integrated AHP approaches primarily applied to? (3) Which specific problems were integrated AHP approaches most commonly applied to? (4) What is the trend in publications regarding integrated AHP approaches? and (5) Which international journals were integrated AHP approaches most widely published in? Finally, some new applications of new AHP integrations are proposed to assist scholars in filling the literature research gaps.

Introduction

Because of its simplicity, ease of use, and great flexibility, the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) has been studied extensively and used in nearly all applications related to multiple criteria decision-making (MCDM) since its development (Saaty, 1980). Because Ho (2008) observed in his literature review article that integrated AHP can result in a more realistic and promising decision than a stand-alone AHP, we focus only on integrated AHP approaches and conduct a follow-up literature review study to Ho (2008) to explore the new trends and advances of the integrated AHP and its applications from the perspective of operations/supply chain management from 2007 to 2016. In the last decade, i.e., 2007-2016, five journal articles reviewing the literature of AHP have been published. Ho (2008) reviewed 66 journal articles published between 1997 and 2006. Ho concluded that the most popular integrated AHP approaches are the integrated AHP-GP and integrated AHP-QFD approaches and that the most widely applied area of the integrated AHP approaches is logistics. Transportation route selection, supplier/subcontractor selection, facility location selection, and scheduling plan selection are the most common problems addressed in logistics. Liberatore and Nydick (2008) reviewed 50 journal articles published between 1981 and 2006 that applied AHP to medical and health care decision-making. Those authors classified the articles into seven categories and determined that the AHP was most widely applied to project and technology evaluation and selection. Sipahi and Timor (2010) reviewed 232 journal articles published between 2005 and 2009 and concluded that applications of AHP are dominant in manufacturing. Supplier selection, supply chain evaluation, location selection, system selection or evaluation, and strategy evaluation are the most common problems addressed in manufacturing. In addition, those authors reported that the most frequently used integrated AHP approach is the integration of AHP and simulation. Subramanian and Ramanathan (2012) reviewed 291 journal articles published from 1999 to 2009 that applied the stand-alone and integrated AHP approaches in operations management. Their paper presented three major research findings. First, product and process design and supply chain management are the two most addressed decision themes. Second, applications of integrated AHP approaches in operations management occur more frequently than stand-alone AHP. Third, the applications of AHP in the manufacturing sector received more attention than in the service sector. Unlike the above four articles, Ishizaka and Labib (2011) reviewed the developments of AHP since its inception, including problem modeling, pairwise comparisons, judgment scales, derivation methods, consistency indices, incomplete matrices, synthesis of weights, sensitivity analysis, and group decisions.