Track Chair - International Symposium on Analytic Hierarchy Process, Washington, US, June-July 2014

As Track Chair on Disaster Management and Risk Analysis at The International Symposium on Analytic Hierarchy Process - 2014, I have been soliciting abstracts of papers for AHP/ANP applications on disaster management and risk analysis.
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As Track chair, I have received abstracts under various themes as below. For each session (each composed of a maximum 4 papers) I still have some slots under each session. Organizers have extended the date of final submission so we can accommodate more papers. (each paper should be an application, extension or development of AHP/ANP technique for disaster and risk!

The following is the tentative list - please send your abstract to navneet.bhushan@crafitti.com to be included under these tracks.

(a) Session: RISK AND CRISIS OF INCREASINGLY NETWORKED/COMPLEX WORLD

Paper 1: Social Media Risk Management Strategy : Applying Analytical Hierarchy Process
Paper 2: An integrated approach for management of global risks
Paper 3:
Paper 4:

(b) EXPLAINING, UNDERSTANDING AND RESPONDING TO BUSINESS/INDUSTRIAL
RISKS, CRISIS AND DISASTERS

Paper 5: Improved Project Risk Management using historical risk information and AHP
Paper 6: AHP AS TOOL FOR HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN THE R&D SECTOR
Paper 7:
Paper 8:

(c) MILITARY, SECURITY AND WAR - RISKS, CRISIS AND DISASTERS

Paper 9: A METHOD OF RISK ANALYSIS AND DISASTER MANAGEMENT USING ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS: AN APPLICATION TO AIR DEFENSE SYSTEM
Paper 10: Crisis Mitigation in Strategic Planning using AHP
Paper 11: Nuclear Scenario in South Asia
Paper 12:

(d) TECHNOLOGY, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND INNOVATION - RISKS, CRISIS
AND DISASTERS

Paper 13: RISK ASSESSMENT IN DEVELOPMENT OF LEAN ARCHITECTURE FOR CONTROL SYSTEM OF AN AERO ENGINE
Paper 14: RISK ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT DURING DEVELOPMENT OF GAS TURBINE ENGINE SUB-SYSTEMS
Paper 15:
Paper 16:

The Analytic Hierarchy Process

The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) - has been so much ingrained in me now that I can sleep walk though any group decision making problem which is quite complex and structure it quite nicely as an AHP problem and create a solution.

This is not a self-boasting statement, it is really the power of the method developed three decades back by Thomas L Saaty it is indeed the simplicity and natural way the AHP gets into a problem that the methodology has enormous power. My book on Strategic Decision Making - Using the AHP shows the width of the method that I have used to solve real-world strategic decision making problems.

Since then I have used the technique to create many frameworks that have been used in variety of scenarios

1. Aligning Enterprise Initiatives with Balanced Score Card
2. Assessment of IT applications for Globally distributed scenarios
3. Creating and Evaluating multiple strategies to achieve long term objectives

etc...

Wikipedia has the Analytic Hierarchy Process entry which explains the process. There are many dedicated companies providing AHP based software packages including the Expert Choice

Yet it is such a surprise that AHP has not been so well known as some of the other techniques or methods! What could be the reason - May be the mathematics behind the technique hinders people exploring it - I have to answer this I think, yet I cant find a better method for decision making in a group setting!