Analytic Network Process and Fuzzy Analytic Network Process
Gwo-Hshiung Tzeng, Jih-Jeng Huang · 2011
With the successful applications of the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) (Saaty 1977, 1980; Saaty and Vargas 1998) in multiple criteria decision making (MCDM), the analytic network process (ANP) was proposed by Saaty (1996) for extending the AHP to release the restrictions of the hierarchical structure, which indicates that the criteria are independent from each other. By raising the supermatrix into the limiting powers, the global priority vectors can be obtained with the specific network structure for determining dependence and feedback problems among criteria.