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Management science is a di scipl ine dedicated to the development
of techniques that enable decision makers to cope with the
increasing complexity of our world. The early burst of excitement
which was spawned by the development and successful applications of
linear programming to problems in both the public and private
sectors has challenged researchers to develop even more
sophisticated methods to deal with the complex nature of decision
making. Sophistication, however, does not always trans 1 ate into
more complex mathematics. Professor Thomas L. Saaty was working for
the U. S. Defense Department and for the U. S. Department of State
in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In these positions, Professor
Saaty was exposed to some of the most complex decisions facing the
world: arms control, the Middle East problem, and the development
of a transport system for a Third World country. While having made
major contributions to numerous areas of mathematics and the theory
of operations research, he soon realized that one did not need
complex mathematics to come to grips with these decision problems,
just the right mathematics Thus, Professor Saaty set out to develop
a mathematically-based technique for analyzing complex situations
which was sophisticated in its simplicity. This technique became
known as the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and has become very
successful in helping decision makers to structure and analyze a
wide range of problems."
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Robert E. Lee
Philip Alexander Bruce
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