MMEF03 Making Business Decisions with Help of Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Expert Choice (EC)

School of Business Administration in Karvina
Winter 2006
Extent and Intensity
1/2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
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 offered to students of any study field.
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
Czech
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 Winter 1990, Summer 1991, Winter 1991, Summer 1992, Winter 1992, Summer 1993, Winter 1993, Summer 1994, Winter 1994, Summer 1995, Winter 1995, Summer 1996, Winter 1996, Summer 1997, Winter 1997, Summer 1998, Winter 1998, Summer 1999, Winter 1999, Summer 2000, Winter 2000, Summer 2001, Winter 2001, Summer 2002, Winter 2002, Summer 2003, Winter 2003, Summer 2004, Winter 2004, Summer 2005, Winter 2005, Summer 2006, Summer 2007, Winter 2007, Summer 2008.
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