A Base Reference AHP-based Decision Support System for Selection Problem

摘要

Decision making for the selection problem in the field of engineering has become more complex due to a larger number of alternatives and multiple goals that sometimes conflict with each other. Recent developments in material and manufacturing technology result in a wider selection of materials and processing techniques. The Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) is a multi attribute decision method (MADM) that uses hierarchical structured pairwise comparisons. AHP is widely used in industry as the decision aid for selection problems. One of the drawbacks of AHP is that the exhaustive pairwise comparison is tiresome and time consuming when there are many alternatives to be considered. This paper presents a new approach to improve this limitation of AHP, the so-called Base Reference Analytical Hierarchy Process (BR-AHP). It presents how the new methodology BR-AHP can be used to create the basis of a decision support system (DSS) for the selection problems.