Choosing the Optimal Mortar for an Infantry Battalion's Mortar Battery with Analytic Hierarchy Process using Multivariate Statistics.

摘要

The aim of our research was to choose the optimal mortar for the infantry battalion's mortar battery. The comparison was carried out using Analytic Hierarchy Process methodology (AHP) 1. In our study we describe the application of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis methods to select optimal military equipment, and we also show other mathematical models which could be useful to solve decision-making problems. During the process of solving this problem, the most important task was the calculation of weights that show the importance of various attributes. Since in this situation there are many decision makers (for example battalion commanders, battery commanders, infantry and artillery officers), we prepared an opinion survey. We asked 32 officers about the importance of attributes and we calculated 32 vectors based on 32 questionnaires. The result was 32 vectors, each of which described one officer s opinion. One of our goals was to calculate the differences among these opinions. In order to do this, we processed these vectors with Multi- Dimensional Scaling, Cluster Analysis and Box Plot Analysis.