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RWS Publications SPECIALIZING IN BOOKS ON DECISION MAKING
WITH THE ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS (AHP)AND THE ANALYTIC NETWORK PROCESS (ANP)
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LIST OF BOOKS CURRENTLY IN PRINT –click here for ORDER FORM
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NEW! Theory
and Applications of the Analytic Network Process: Decision Making with
Benefits, Opportunities, Costs, and Risks Thomas L. Saaty, 352 pp. , RWS Publications,
2005.
ISBN 1-888603-06-2. New book on the Analytic Network Process released in
2005! I
covers how to make complex decisions in light of their benefits,
opportunities, costs and risks (BOCR) and how to include the strategic
criteria of the decision-maker that must be always be satisfied regardless
of the particular decision being undertaken. This book includes all the important background
material from the earlier book, The Analytic Network Process: Decision
Making with Dependence and Feedback, published in 2001, and goes farther
with new examples of networks for estimating market share of companies
based on the intangibles of customer perception, and new applications
involving complex models with subnets for benefits, opportunities, costs
and risks.
Softcover, $50. |
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NEW! The Encyclicon; a Dictionary of Applications of
Decision Making with Dependence and Feedback based on the Analytic Network
Process Thomas L. Saaty and Müjgan Özdemir, paperback, 292
pp., RWS Publications, 2005. ISBN 1-888603-05-4. The Encyclicon tells an exciting story about the
Analytic Network Process for decision-making. It contains
many examples of networks with feedback for different benefits,
opportunities, costs and risks. These are then evaluated in terms of
strategic criteria and combined to give the overall outcome. The examples
range from simple models with feedback involving single networks (for
estimating market share of companies based on consumer perceptions, for
example) to complex decisions involving benefits, opportunities, costs and
risks (BOCR). The decisions are categorized into
business and trade, crime and terrorism, energy, government, military,
health, industry and production, politics, public concern, sports and
career decisions. Information is included on how to get an
evaluation copy of the SuperDecisions software that implements the
ANP.
Softcover, $50. |
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OUT OF PRINT. The Analytic
Network Process: Decision Making with Dependence and Feedback
Thomas L. Saaty, 386 pp., RWS Publ., 2001. ISBN
0-9620317-9-8 This book, the original one on the ANP, is out of
print.
It has been replaced with the new book above on the Theory and
Applications of the ANP with Benefits, Opportunities, Costs and Risks
above.
The new book includes the important material from the original book
about the foundations of the ANP plus new treatments of decisions with
benefits, opportunities, costs and risks under strategic criteria.
Softcover. $30.
NO LONGER AVAILABLE.
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NEW! Creative Thinking, Problem Solving &
Decision Making
T.L. Saaty, 267 pp., RWS
Publ.,
2005 (new ed.).
ISBN-1-888603-03-8
In this new printing beautiful original paintings of
the creative process have been added. The rest of the book has the original
rich collection of ideas, incorporating research by a growing body of
researchers and practitioners, profiles of creative people, projects and
products, theory, philosophy, physics and metaphysics…all explained with a
liberal dose of humor. . Exercises at the end of each chapter
help readers build their creative “muscles” and develop skills and the
confidence to successfully meet challenges. New powerpoint slide presentation of
creativity ideas that you can download from the internet. Hardcover. $60 |
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The Brain: Unraveling the Mystery of How it Works,
The Neural Network Process Thomas L. Saaty, 481 pp., RWS Publ., 1999. ISBN 1-888603-02-X. Many contemporary thinkers have claimed that all
human actions, sensations, thoughts and even emotions are derived from the
synthesis of neural firings in the brain. This book confirms that they are right
and supplies the mathematics to show how it happens. The precise
nature of the interaction, feedback, and synthesis of neural firings has
not been fully described – until now. Hardcover. $50 |
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Decision Making for
Leaders Vol. II of the AHP Series
Thomas L. Saaty, 315 pp., RWS Publ., 2001 (new
ed.).
ISBN 0-9620317-8-X This is a book of case studies in multicriteria
decision-making using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). The basics of
the theory are described in a clear, non-technical manner with many
examples. Methods are given for calculating best
options using simple arithmetic. Suitable for business leaders and also
the best book for introducing the AHP to students. This book addresses the issue of how to structure a
complex situation, identify its criteria and other factors whether
intangible or concrete, measure the interactions among them in a simple
way, and synthesize all the information to obtain priorities. The
priorities can then be used in a benefit/cost setting to develop
portfolios of activities, one of the major concerns of corporations
today.
They can also be used in government and other organizations with
different goals and purposes. Moreover, the method offers
practitioners a simple test of the consistency of their judgments. It can also
help them test the compatibility of projected policies with established
ones. Softcover. $30 |
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Spanish translation of the book above, Decisión Making for Leaders Toma De Decisiones
Thomas L. Saaty, RWS Publ., 1997. ISBN
1-888603-01-1,
Three native Spanish speakers who are distinguished
scholars and researchers in AHP worked together to produce this
exceedingly accurate and beautiful translation: Mauricio Escudey, Claudio
Garuti, and Luis Vargas. Softcover. $30 |
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TWO BOOKS IN ONE $60. Vol. III and IV of the
AHP Series, 2 books combined in one volume The two books below have been combined in one volume
and published in a softback edition by RWS Publications under ISBN
1-888603-07-0, 1991. The Logic of
Priorities Thomas L. Saaty and Luis G. Vargas Vol. III, AHP
Series, , 299 pp. The hardcover edition of this book was published in
1982 by Kluwer-Nijhoff under ISBN 0-89838-071-5. This book is an
introduction to prioritization using the Analytic Hiearchy Process (AHP)
with applications in business, energy, health and transportation. It also
includes applications in technology transfer and resource allocation. It covers
forward and backward planning, risk, uncertainty in portfolio selection,
and conflict resolution using the AHP. Analytic Planning: The
Organization of Systems
Thomas L. Saaty & Kevin P. Kearns Vol. IV, AHP
Series, , 208 pp. The hardcover edition of this book was published in
1985 by Pergamon Press under ISBN 0-08-032599-8. This book
presents a methodological approach to planning using the Analytic
Hierarchy Process (AHP). Part I, Systems and Complexity, has
chapters on Complexity and Systems and how they relate to the Analytic
Hierarchy Process. Part II, Strategic Planning, has
chapters on Current Theories of Planning, Strategic Planning, and Benefit-Cost
Analysis and Resource Allocation. Softcover, $60 for Vols. 3 and 4
together. |
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The Hierarchon: A Dictionary
of Hierarchies Thomas L. Saaty & Ernest H. Forman, Vol. V, AHP
Series, , 496 pp., RWS Publ., 1992. ISBN 0-962-0317-5-5. Over 400 decision problems in government and the
private sector, structured as hierarchical decision models. The
Hierarchon serves as a stimulus, a source of ideas to help in structuring
decision problems as hierarchies. Includes an introduction to the ideas
of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) in chapter 1. Softcover, spiral bound, 8 1/2 x 11 $100 |
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The Fundamentals of
Decision Making and Priority Theory with the Analytic Hierarchy Process
Thomas L. Saaty Vol. VI of the AHP Series, , 478 pp.,
RWS Publ., 2000 (revised). ISBN 0-9620317-6-3. This book is a comprehensive summary, primarily of
the author's own thinking and research, of the Analytic Hierarchy Process
and decision making. It includes advanced mathematical
theory and diverse applications. Fundamentals of Decision Making has all
the latest theoretical developments in the AHP and new theoretical
material not published elsewhere. We consider this book to be the
replacement for the original book on the subject, The Analytic Hierarchy
Process. Softcover. $40 |
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Transportation Decisions
with the Analytic Hierarchy Process Simin Jalali R. Rabbani and Soheil Rahnemay Rabbani,
publisher Civil Engineering Department, Federal University of Paraiba,
Brazil, 200 pp., 1996. ISBN 85-237-0043-9. The only book dedicated to transportation decisions
using the AHP.
It is in two parts: Part 1 includes the theoretical background of
the Analytic Hierarchy Process and an examination of the dynamic evolution
of multicriteria decision processes; Part 2 contains practical
applications of the AHP to a variety of cases in transportation
planning.
Cases involve scenarios of prediction, resource allocation based on
benefit cost analysis and designing forward and backward planning. Softcover. $25 |
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PROCEEDINGS OF SOME OF
THE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIA ON THE AHP ARE AVAILABLE THROUGH RWS
PUBLICATIONS Note: The proceeds from sales of any ISAHP
Proceedings go to support future meetings. |
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Proceedings of ISAHP2
(1991, The printed proceedings from the second international
symposium on the AHP that took place in Softcover, 8 ½ x 11, spiral bound. $100 |
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ISAHP4 (1996, The printed proceedings from the fourth international
symposium on the AHP that took place in at Softcover, 8 ½ x 11, spiral bound, original books,
$50. |
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