MME903S Making Business Decisions with Help of Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Expert Choice (EC)

School of Business Administration in Karvina
Summer 2008
Extent and Intensity
1/2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Jaroslav Ramík, CSc. (lecturer)
Ing. Radomír Perzina, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
prof. RNDr. Jaroslav Ramík, CSc. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Jaroslav Ramík, CSc.
Department of Informatics and Mathematics – School of Business Administration in Karvina
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives (in Czech)
At the end of this course the students should be able to understand the principles of multi-criteria analysis and multi-objective decision support, basic concepts of AHP, construct simple hierarchical models of multi-criteria evaluation and decision support, solve hierarchical multi-criteria evaluation and decision applications by AHP and by the help of software tool Expert Choice on personal computers.
Syllabus (in Czech)
  • Structure of the Course:
    1. Basic principles of multi-criteria analysis.
    2. Main concepts of Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP).
    3. Pairwise comparisons.
    4. Hierarchy and AHP.
    5. Applications by AHP and Expert Choice on PCs.
    6. Case studies.
    Content of the Course:
    1. Basic principles of multi-criteria analysis and multi objective decision support systems.
    2. Main concepts and common mathematical notation of Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP).
    1. Pairwise comparison by Saaty's method.
    2. Construction of simple hierarchical models of multi-criteria evaluation and decision by AHP.
    3. Hierarchical multi-criteria evaluation and decision applications by AHP and Expert Choice on personal computers.
    4. Case studies in business and decision support.

    Presentation media and PC are used in the framework of education. Seminars are taught in computer classrooms. Educational materials in electronic form are available on faculty computer network.
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is also listed under the following terms Summer 2007, Winter 2007.
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