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Testing a Recent DEMATEL-Based Proposal to Simplify the Use of ANP

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  • Erik Schulze-González

    (Escuela de Ingeniería Industrial, Universidad de Valparaíso, Valparaíso 2340000, Chile)

  • Juan-Pascual Pastor-Ferrando

    (Project Management, Innovation and Sustainability Research Center (PRINS), Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 València, Spain)

  • Pablo Aragonés-Beltrán

    (Project Management, Innovation and Sustainability Research Center (PRINS), Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 València, Spain)

Abstract

The Analytic Network Process (ANP) is a well-known multi-criteria decision method that allows the relationships between its elements to be incorporated into the model. The large number of questions to be answered is one of the main drawbacks of the method, since it is time consuming for decision makers and experts who participate in the decision process. A recent DEMATEL-based ANP proposal can significantly reduce the number and the complexity of questions. This proposal was simply exposed and lacked an experimental test with real cases. The fundamental objective of this work is to answer the question: Does it work? In this work, this new proposal is applied to 45 ANP cases published in the literature. Variants to the verified proposal have also been identified. The results obtained show that the values of the priorities and the ranks obtained with this new proposal are very similar to the results obtained with the ANP, reducing the number of questions required by 42% on average. Additionally, in this work you can find the compilation of the 45 ANP weighted supermatrices to use in your investigations.

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  • Erik Schulze-González & Juan-Pascual Pastor-Ferrando & Pablo Aragonés-Beltrán, 2021. "Testing a Recent DEMATEL-Based Proposal to Simplify the Use of ANP," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 9(14), pages 1-23, July.
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