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Audience for This BookSince the landmark publication of Decision Making for Leaders by Thomas L. Saaty in 1980, there have been several books on the topic. Some of them deal with the theory of the analytic hierarchy process (AHP), and others discuss its applications. The question is whether a new book on AHP is needed and why. The answer is based on our own experience as academic and practitioner of the AHP methodology. First, AHP appeared as an intuitive and mathematically simple methodology in the field of multi-criteria decision-making in operations research (OR). Because of this, most AHP books assume the reader has basic OR mathematical background. Even books that claim to be extremely simple to understand usually d...
