Symposium on the Analytic Hierarchy Process. Foreign trip report, September 2, 1988-September 11, 1988.

摘要

The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is a methodology proposed by T.L. Saaty, USA, in 1977, in finding solutions to unstructured decision problems. This first International Symposium was sponsored by the Systems Engineering Society of China, the Operations Research Society of China, the Operations Research Society of Japan, and the National Science Foundation of the USA. This symposium was held at Tianjin University, Tianjin, China, during September 6--9, 1988. There were more than 160 participants, with about 15 from the United States, 7 from Japan, one from USSR, one from Finland, and one from Canada. During the last three years, this methodology was used extensively in the People's Republic of China by decision makers, and books are published on this topic along with the development of computer software. More than 200 papers seem to be in print. The Program Committee, of which I am a member, recommended to hold the Second International Conference on AHP in 1991 at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. The latest developments summarized by computer software experts are relevant to the CO(sub 2) Project and CASE Tools Project at Oak Ridge.